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The holidays have arrived, and so have the endless number of sales. Game sales are no different, so we’ll be posting about these sales throughout the holiday season. Just look for the #holidaysale tag!
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Here’s a weird bit of news. Developer Digital Eel sent us a note to let us know that their free strategy sci-fi game Strange Adventures in Infinite Space has just been updated…to Mac OS X Lion!
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Data Jammers: FastForward has been released. Digital Eel’s data arcade game has initially been released for Windows, with a Mac version soon to follow.

In Data Jammers, you are an elite virtual commando named Data DOOD (stands for Digital Operative Optical Data). Your job is to defend the data stream by infiltrating the military industrial complex, Ouroboros, and destroy it. The game is set within continuously moving three dimensional retro wireframe driving tracks which are populated by numerous dangers, hazards, and boss guardians along the way.
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Paradise Beach for iPad is a tycoon-style click management game where you design, build, and manage some of the world’s leading beach resorts. The game includes “Where’s Waldo” style hidden object hunts, two game-play modes, and a plot declared interesting by the developer. The game is a freemium download, with in-app purchase of $4.99 to upgrade. Based on comments on iTunes, what you download is a lite version, and the $4.99 buys the full game.

Total Eclipse is a tabletop RPG system that has been formatted specifically to work on your iOS or other smart phones/tablet devices. Developed by Disrupted Gears and set to publish by ShrapnelGames, the system is meant to allow for regular level advancement in microsteps, as well as an attribute system that supposedly eliminates min-maxing and encourages actual role-playing. The first four books in the system will be formatted for any eReader, so not just those with smartphones or tablets can read them. And if enough interest is shown, print-on-demand will occur. The game system will be released before the end of 2011, and a call for beta testers has already gone out.

Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure by G5 Entertainment was released today. Though the storyline is quite stereotypical, the plot is a little different from most time management games. Kate must learn to fix cars and other vehicles and manage the shops to save her father’s auto business. The game includes six locations with 10 different types of cars and several different modes to play with. Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure can be found for iPhone, and an iPad version is also available. The game downloads for free, but requires a $2.99 in-app purchase to unlock the full game ($4.99 for iPad).

Shrapnel Games is celebrating Labor Day with a sale on Dominions 3: The Awakening. This turn-based strategy game will be available for just $48.95 from August 30th until September 8th.

Developed by Illwinter Games, Dominions 3: The Awakening is an epic fantasy strategy game that includes 2000 units, 700 spells, and 68 nations in three different eras of play. More features of the game include:

• An immersive world. While there is no story based campaign the world of Dominions 3 is still rich and vibrant, thanks in no small part to the fact that one of the developers teaches myth and religion. Units and nations come alive in vivid descriptions. The three eras of play also tell their own stories, as each era alters how one plays.
• Awesome multiplayer possibilities. Jump into a multiplayer game with the possibility of having twenty-one players. The preferred choice is play-by-email and finding a game is easy thanks to the strong community that surrounds Dominions 3. Check out any of the multitude of AARs available online to take a peek at how exciting multiplayer can be.
• Strong modding support. From the get-go Dominions 3: The Awakening has been open to the modding community, which has done a superb job. Mods range from altering game balance to new maps to new nations.
• Ongoing developer support. Since its release Dominions 3: The Awakening has been updated several times by Illwinter, and we’re not talking just killing bugs. New content and gameplay modifications have been featured in every patch. We’re talking at least an expansion, if not two, all for free.
• Fantastic community. Games typically come and go but Dominions 3: The Awakening has never left, in no small part to the great group of gamers. They eat, breathe, and sleep Dominions and it is awesome.

For more information or to purchase the game, visit the Dominions 3: The Awakening home page

Shrapnel Games is continuing their summer long sales extravaganza by dubbing August, also known as National Catfish Month, the Gone Fishing Sale. Over 15 titles are on sale for various prices, including some Mac favorites:

25% off the normal retail price of:

BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity – Imagine someone reaches their hand into your head and squeezes your eyes from the inside while Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds plays in the background.

15% off of these games:

Dominions 3: The Awakening – Don’t all those AARs floating around the ‘net just make you want to jump into the game? So buy it already and do so!

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space – Space doesn’t have to be big and scary. It can be tamed, and it likes presents and hugs. Give the purple void a hug.

Check out their site for more goodies and to purchase your catch!

To get your Indie game fix, you can’t beat a sale. Shrapnel Games has extended their holiday games sale till December 20. Right now you can get the following deals:

• $8 off Dominions 3: The Awakening.
• $4 off Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.
• $3 off of Brainpipe: A plunge to Unhumanity.

Shrapnel Games, indie publisher of strategy and niche titles, is having a back to school sale on all of their titles. Not all of their titles are available for the Mac, but all of their Mac titles are for sale. Check out the savings:

Dominions 3: The Awakening, normally $54.95, only $46.70!

BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity, normally $14.95, only $12.70!

Salvo!, normally $39.95, only $32.95!

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, normally $24.95, only $20.58!

Shrapnel Games announced an update for Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity today. The update (1.02) can be obtained here. This corrects, among other things, a nasty lag in the use of your mouse to direct movement on the screen I mentioned in the review. The difference is definitely there, and makes the game much better. Go and pick up.

 

A Game Review Edition featuring reviews of:

Brainpipe: Digital Eel’s IGF 2009 awarded arcade game of psychedelic sights and sound.


A Vampyre Story: follow the unlife of an undead Parisian opera singer as she tries to escape her plight and accept her fate.


Pixie: Little Pixie is afraid of the night bugs…so she zaps them with her death vines! Well, you can read it that way…