Eric Chahi's distinctive god-game From Dust is now available through the Google Chrome store for a discounted price of $US9.99. The game was one of the more pleasant surprises of last year.

2011 saw its share of disappointments, but it was also a year that contained a good number of nice surprises. Some were games we just didn't see coming — they snuck up on us and grabbed us with their excellence. Others were games that we thought were going to be terrible or at best so-so, but which would up being terrific.

It's a game that has taken out multiple awards and received raving reviews, even from the Kotaku readers. Unfortunately, the fun was restricted to Xbox 360 users. Now, PlayStation 3 owners will also be able to see what the fuss is all about when From Dust comes to PSN tomorrow.

Announced yesterday for a September 27 release on the PlayStation Network, god-game From Dust has had its delivery date moved up two weeks to September 13. It's still $US14.99. Because some have wondered, no, the game does not support PlayStation Move.

That an entire console worth of gamers haven't experienced Eric Chahi's glorious strategy game From Dust weighs is a shame, but a shame that will be rectified come September 27 when the game hits the PlayStation Network for $US14.99.

Ubisoft is coming to PAX this week with nearly a dozen games and a slew of freebies. They say it will be their biggest line up for the annual show to date.

When PC title From Dust was released, PC gamers discovered that, yes, you must have an always-on internet connection. Previous claims stated that it wouldn't. Now, Ubisoft is ready to make amends.

Ubisoft's release of From Dust on the PC has been, in every sense of the word, a disaster. Just the fact that, today, it was discovered the game requires an always-on internet connection — putting the lie to earlier claims that it wouldn't — is a throat-slash to its credibility. The additional fact it's also a terrible port of a console game is the cherry atop a shit sundae for a raving mad PC gaming community.

I like it when innovative games sell well. The fact that Child of Eden struggled still keeps me awake at night. Thank goodness then, that Ubisoft is reporting that From Dust was a resounding success, easily swatting away Scott Pilgrim vs the World to become its biggest selling digital release ever.

From Dust - it's a game that's getting mixed reviews in the best possible sense of the word. Some people love it and some people hate it. Today's reviewer, Dutch, occupies the middle range of this spectrum...

Around these parts, it's been a while since we've seen a downloadable LIVE Arcade title receive the kind of hype and anticipation that From Dust received. Now that it's out in the wild, what are your thoughts?

From Dust is a very good video game that starts badly. It's dull, at first. Pick up dirt. Drop dirt. Pick up water. Spill water. Your'e a god! Re-shaping the land. And you'll be forgiven for feeling drowsy.

From Dust and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are both part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade Games promotion for the Xbox 360. Neither is supposed to be out, but for some reason, both now are.

From Dust is released tomorrow on Xbox LIVE, but for some reason - and Ubisoft has declined to elaborate - the PC version has been delayed until August.

We've been a little bit excited about From Dust since the beginning, but the 'God' genre hasn't really been popular since Black and White - can Eric Chahi's latest effort revive it? He certainly seems to think so.

Breathe in, drain a lake. Breathe out, flood a valley. The battle between god-graced humanity and unforgiving nature is distilled down to two simple actions in Ubisoft's From Dust.

I've played as army men, bounty hunters, spies and killers. I've built towering office buildings as a city planner. Raised beasts as a super being. Strategised as a world-conquering general. But I've never been the breath of god.

You could be on the receiving end of a "free" copy of co-op dungeon crawler Crimson Alliance, pictured above, Xbox 360 owners, if you go all-in on this year's "Summer of Arcade" games for Xbox Live Arcade. What's on the list?

Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft's From Dust and Fuelcell's Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we're in for one hell of a summer.