Friday Steam Round Up - 5/3/2010

[DigiQ8]

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Weekend Deal:

• Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - 75% off ($7.49 USD)
• Football Manager 2010 - 50% off ($19.99 USD)
• Virtua Tennis 2009 - 75% off ($7.50 USD)
  

News:

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition is Now Available - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 brings the award-winning Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of PC gaming with best-in-class vehicular combat and unexpected "Battlefield moments." New vehicles like the ATV and a transport helicopter allow for all-new multiplayer tactics on the Battlefield. With the Frostbite-enabled Destruction 2.0 system, you can take down entire buildings and create your own fire points by blasting holes through cover. You can also compete in four-player teams in two squad-only game modes, fighting together to unlock exclusive awards and achievements. Battles are set across expansive maps, each with a different tactical focus. The game also sees the return of the B Company squad in a more mature single-player campaign.[br]
  
• Supreme Commander 2 is Now Available - In Supreme Commander 2, players will experience brutal battles on a massive scale! Players will wage war by creating enormous customizable armies and experimental war machines that can change the balance of power at any given moment. Take the role of one of the three enigmatic commanders, each representing a unique faction with a rich story that brings a new level of emotional connection to the RTS genre, or fight the battle online.[br]
  
• Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic is Now Available - Step behind the periscope of a German U-boat and take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.[br]
  
• Defense Grid: The Awakening Update Released - Includes new free DLC, Defense Grid: Borderlands, the highly challenging expansion that provides four new maps and multiple challenge modes for each map, it also brings 3 new challenge types to Defense Grid, adding a total of 30 new challenge modes across the original 20 maps in the Awakening campaign. [br]
  
  
• Assassin's Creed 2 Now Available in Europe, Asia, Australia - Assassin’s Creed 2 retains the core gameplay experience that made the first opus a resounding success and features new experiences that will surprise and challenge players.[br]
  
  
• Sonic &amp; SEGA All-Stars Racing is Now Available - Explore stunning new circuits including Sonic Seaside Hill, Curien Mansion and Blizzard Castle as you zip around medieval castle ramparts, hurtle under lush rain forest canopies and tear through bustling city scapes in a frantic race to the finish line.[br]
  
• Metro 2033 Official Game Group - Learn about upcoming news, patches, and events including a live chat that will be taking place with Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the Metro 2033 book. [br]
  
• Just Cause 2 Demo Released - Features a massive 35 square miles of the Lautan Lama Desert, a vast expanse of stunning, sun-scorched scenery taking up just one of the many islands in the 400 square miles of the Panau archipelago. Packed with towns, villages, military installations, mountain ranges, missions and more, the demo will feature an astonishing amount of activities for the player... and opportunities for adrenaline-fuelled chaos are limitless.
  

 

[StarBob]

I love football... but Football Manager 2010 sounds like the absolute most boring game ever to be created.

Basically any game where you're a "manager" can't possibly be that fun... unless it's like... Explosion Manager 2010. I might play that.

Actually, that's a great new name... no one steal that shit.

 

[simonjedi]

Fantasy football/football manager type games are DnD for people who insult other people for playing DnD

 

[StarBob]

Fantasy football is fun and free... and actually uses real things happening... not a simulated crapathon.

- Explosion Manager

 

[Adabiviak]

lol, I'd play Explosion Manager. Might sign up for the Metro 2033 group though.

 

[ríomhaire]

Fantasy football is fun and free... and actually uses real things happening... not a simulated crapathon.

- Explosion Manager

Stop playing FPSs and buy a paintball gun so. I'm not a fan of manager games but I can certainly see the appeal.