Bundles: Humble Double Fine Bundle

The bundle avalanche continues with Humble Bundle doing a Double Fine based deal.

The deal breaks down like this: Pay what you want for Costume Quest, Psychonauts and Stacking. Then at the current minimum of $8.02 you get Brutal Legend as well.

From there the bundle is a little different with what unlocks at the higher tiers.

At $35 or more you also receive a pre-order of the point-and-click adventure game Broken Age.

Finally at $70 dollars or more you also receive a t-shirt with worldwide shipping included.

Other than that some soundtracks are also included. Keep in mind that there is a one dollar minimum for steam keys.

Trailers and summaries of each game are available at Humble Bundle.

The bundle will run for two weeks and end on May 21.

Podcast: Episode 1 - Genesis

Our very first podcast episode is now up on Youtube for listening.

The topics discussed in the episode are the Nextbox rumours, what we have been playing and the first edition of Over/Under. Over/Under is where a game is chosen and then it's rating is discussed/debated between us.

The game this episode was Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.

Tornade and enjoy. Feel free to comment below too. What do you think of Street Fighter 3: Third Strike or the rumours of the Xbox 360's successor?

Dark Souls PC Review - Let's go to hell and back

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INTRODUCTION

This is a review of the PC release of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die edition. Throughout this review I cover everything from my first impressions to delving deep into the gameplay.

First Impressions:

Being an avid fan of the Xbox 360 version I had this game pre-ordered well before release, I was quite excited to get my hands on a PC copy that could really dish out some of the beautiful graphics that had been designed for the game. After the pre-download I waited eagerly for it to unlock, once I did I was disappointed. I had to wait another half an hour for Games for Windows to install--Not a good sign. My next bad sign was the blurriness--Even the first couple of messages about auto-saving were blurry I headed straight to options and went to graphics and disappointingly only found 3 settings to change. Doing what I could, I chose the highest resolution and got reborn as an undead.

After that it was downhill for first impressions. I got in and found a texture lock in-game. What is a texture lock you ask? The in-game resolution of a port is stuck at 1025--Period. The next was the game was a direct port from console. That’s right a direct port. Scary words to describe any PC game but this takes the cake. Without an actual controller plugged in the message still tells you “Press A to read message.”