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Telltale Games has announced the Collector’s and Deluxe editions of the Back to the Future: The Game available for order. Now you can get not just the entire series, but additional content on the DVD itself as well as new swag.

The Collector’s Edition includes the full run, plus behind the scenes videos, team commentaries, trailers, promo art, and more. The Deluxe Edition comes with the Collector’s Edition DVD, and features unique Deluxe Edition cover art, a Hill Valley Historical Society Photo Album, Doc Brown’s Notebook, Trixie Trotter’s Postcard, and Doc’s Original Flux Capacitor Sketch. The Deluxe Edition will also be limited to an initial 2,500 piece manufacturing run.

The Collector’s Edition is $24.99 plus shipping (or shipping only if you already purchased the full season). The Deluxe Edition is $44.99 plus shipping, or pay only $19.99 plus shipping if you already own the full season. Unfortunately, Telltale Games says that the reduced cost deals are only available to those who bought the full season from the Telltale Games store. So Steam, iPad, Mac Store, etc customers pay full price.

Telltale Games has also included some new BTTFTG merchandise in their store as well, including a full size (26″x40″) Back to the Future: The Game movie-style poster. And if you place an order of over $50 between now til August 31, you’ll get 15% off your entire order. All of the new merchandise will begin shipping in September.

CCP has announced that voting for the EVE is Real contest has begun.

EVE is Real site is a collection of videos, images, and text created by players archiving the eight years of EVE Online’s persistent universe. Over 4000 player-made images, videos and posts are located on the site. The site is divided into the categories of War, Exploration, Corp Recruitment, Freestyle, and EVE is Real, the last of which seems to be a collection of player views on how realistic and lifelike various aspects of EVE gameplay feels to them. The posts range from poignant and precious to terrifying or hilarious.

Every person can vote for one image and one video per day. Prizes include 20 GEFORCE GTX 460 SE video cards for image winners and a grand prize of an ALIENWARE AREA-51 PC for the video contest winner. Voting ends September 1st.

Duke Nukem Forever for the Mac has been released! Hey, so we’re late in announcing it. We were on vacation…sue us.

The alien hordes are invading and only Duke can save the world. Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses can’t stop this epic hero from accomplishing his goal: to save the world, save the babes and to be a bad-ass while doing it. The game features Duke’s trademark one-liners and a wide amount of genre play. Not just FPS play, but DNF includes driving, puzzle solving, and sports game play. And you’ll get the opportunity to shrink, squash, freeze, shatter, and frag your friends in Duke’s multiplayer.

Duke’s received a lot of criticism in the press so far and we’re eager to find out whether Duke deserves it. We’ll be paying close attention to his moves, his play, and his words during our review. What do you think? Is Duke all washed up, or is Gearbox thinking outside the, er, box?

Duke Nukem Forever for Mac is available for download from the GameAgent site for $39.99.

UPDATE: looks like Dota 2 is going to be pushed to sometime early next year, according to this Shacknews article.

The International, the first tournament of Dota 2 held at Gamescom, has resulted in a champion. Valve has announced that team “Na’Vi” from Ukraine took first place with the $1 million grand prize.

Over five days, this event was viewed by millions through live broadcasts and live audiences. The International featured the 16 best Dota teams in the world competing in the Dota 2 Championships through a group stage, double elimination playoff format over the course of Cologne’s five-day trade show. Teams represented countries from across the world, including Denmark, China, Russia, the Philippines, and Singapore.

In addition to the cash prizes awarded by Valve, Nvidia provided all the hardware for the event plus hardware prizes for the winning team. Valve has confirmed that it will be holding another International tournament next year, and is even discussing upcoming Dota 2 events during its beta phase.

Dota 2 is the stand-alone sequel that Valve is developing to the popular Warcraft III mod map Defense of the Ancients (popularly known as Dota). The game will tentatively be released for Windows and Mac later this year early next year.

We’re back from vacation, and what do we find in our inbox? Luscious screens from Telltale Games’ Jurassic Park The Game. So, of course, we had to share. Enjoy, and send them to your friends!

Head Editor Omaha Sternberg has left for a vacation in the balmy state of Florida. We’ll be back on 8/22 with more of the Mac and iOS gaming world when she’s back. In the meantime, she’ll do her best to relax and not work because that’s what you do during a vacation. Except for that one review that she’s finishing writing on her Macbook Pro. And the iPad games that she’ll be playing in the evening. And catching up on twitter responses. And….

 

What’s inside this episode:

• Host Omaha Sternberg and co-host Peter Cohen of The Loop talk about the week’s news in Mac and iOS gaming. First up, is Freemium really the way to go? Omaha and Peter talk about two studies this week that seem to say just that.
• Diablo 3…more WoW than Diablo 2? Omaha and Peter talk about the newest revelations this week about Blizzard’s latest.
• Apple has more cash than the US treasury! Omaha and Peter chuckle through analyst suggestions of who Apple should purchase.
• Some couple in China didn’t understand why they shouldn’t be allowed to sell their offspring for Internet Cafe game cash. Omaha and Peter have a hard time understanding them…
• The Humble Indie Bundle is here again! Number 3 has arrived, and bundled with more than ever.
• Spiderweb Software is rebooting the first Avernum game. Peter talks about why that is ultra cool.
• Omaha and Peter talk about games that they’ve played in the past week.

Music Notes:

• Digital Droo produced our theme music here at iGame Radio.
• Tomas Dvorak for featuring music from Machinarium.
• Rich Carlson for featuring music from Dr. Blob.

G5 Entertainment today launched a new time management game for the Mac, Jack of All Tribes. Previously released for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad, this time management game takes Jack to the past to become the Redeemer, helping build the tribes with artifacts from the future.

Jack climbs on the “Tunnel of Destiny”, a new attraction at the local amusement park, to find himself suddenly in a long-lost civilization. Jack finds himself declared the redeemer predicted by the Great Shaman. Now Jack must follow the instructions given in the prophecy: find all hidden artifacts and free the tribes from the oppressive domination of the Dumbheads.

Jack of All Tribes also features strategy gameplay and hidden object mini-games as well. The needs and emotions of tribes members helping Jack are necessary to meet and make happier, since happy people move much faster and work more efficiently.

The iOS version of the game has been given the Pocket Gamer Silver Award, and has been in the Top 10 Downloaded games. Jack of All Tribes for the Mac is now available in the Mac App Store for $6.99.

 

What’s inside this episode:

• A review of Piclings, by Pan Vision. Let’s you create game levels from your own pictures and share it with others, but doesn’t do any of the explaining about how. Gameplay tools are simple, but not always responsive, so your fun value may vary.
  
• Also, a review of iShot, published by IZ Ventures. A cute little fake drinking game for about 15 minutes of your time. It will probably be a lot more fun if you are drinking as much as your iPhone is.
  
• Plus, a review of Mosquito’s Insonmia, published by MeanMob. An eerie, bizarre, excellently drawn game arcade game with great music and simple, basic gameplay but a bit of a difficult playing curve.
  

Soup Du Jour for the iPad is the latest from Digital Eel. This matching game includes rubbery physics, stretchy sound effects, and promised rule-breaking gameplay. Colorful shapes fall into your pot, and you tug and toss them together to burst the matches. Beware the pesky Kitchen Gremlin that adds in explodee things, though. You can grab the game from the App store for $1.99.

Golden Arrow Studio has released Mr. BBQ, a platform collection game in which a vigilante pig negotiates the urban sprawl to collect bbqs and save all porcine kind from the firey demise. You have to defeat traps to move from one level to the next, but get powerups to help you along the way. The graphics are simple, hand-drawn visuals where even the enemies are cute. The game is downloadable for $1.99.

The Marbians, a game for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad, was released last week. A physics-based marble themed puzzler from Nordisk Film, players can send marble-like Marbians careening off walls and around obstacles to collect moon rocks, racking up points to eventually reach their UFO homes. Though the game is initially free to download, this will only get you the first 6 levels. Continued play includes a cost…$0.99 for the iPhone version, $1.99 for the iPad version. This has already rubbed some people the wrong way, as the biggest complaint from low star reviews so far is this issue.