Torchlight only $5 on Steam this weekend.
The surprisingly popular Independent dungeon-crawler Torchlight can be yours this weekend for a mere $5. If you log onto Steam before Monday you can get the game at a 75% discount.
For those who are craving something to tide themselves over before the eventual release of Diablo III, this is most certainly your answer. Also, $5 dollars is something we can all afford.
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Thoughts on Possibility of Pay-For-Demos
With the story earlier this week that EA was considering the idea of offering extended play pay-for-demos I’ve received a number of questions about it through Twitter so I figured it would be a good subject to address. According to a quote from an EA exec the company could begin creating “premium downloadable content” demos that would have at least a few hours worth a play and give an opportunity for gamers to provide feedback that could improve the final complete version of the game.
Now, much of the speculation that prompted discussion on the topic came from an analyst that has a history of exaggerating and inserting opinions to speculate conclusions. So in response EA came right out and stated that they have absolutely no plans to charge for the standard demos everyone is accustomed to having provided for free, and such an idea would not be a replacement for those.
“EA will continue to release demos and we have no plans to charge for them.”
Rare: First-parties to define Natal
Rare is confident that it and other Microsoft first-party studios are in the process of creating games that will define Project Natal’s controller-free experience.
“I suppose at Microsoft it’s about, overall, having the right content from first-party studios to define what Natal is,” studio head Mark Betteridge told Develop. “We’re very confident we do have that, we will have that, and I think people are going to be impressed with what they see from ourselves and [other] first-parties.”
He continued: “It’s a great attribute of Microsoft that, not only do they have the creative decision to bring something like Natal into the marketplace when other companies aren’t doing so well at the moment, but they also have the financial backing to run with that.”
Microsoft is expected to show its full hand and introduce Natal’s launch line-up in just over two months. Instead of the usual single pre-E3 press conference, the company has announced that it’s holding two media gatherings this year, one of which, held on June 13, devoted entirely to the motion controller.
