July 30: wallet threat level orc

Posted by on July 30, 2012 in Games

Orcs Must Die got a lot of things right when it came to crushing, folding, spindling, and mutilating orcs. But it had stuff missing that kept it from being a great game. For instance, co-op multiplayer, a survival mode, and more ways to play than just working your way through campaign missions. Orcs Must Die 2 will include all those things.

And speaking of erstwhile Xbox games — Orcs Must Die 2 is only available on the PC — the pretty nifty side-scrolling League of Legends style game, Awesomenauts, will be out for the PC this week (review of the Xbox version here). If you’ve got a Nintendo 3DS and you don’t mind a little Disney in your JRPG, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is out this week. And Xbox Live Arcade’s summer series is finally putting out a non-Kinect game with Deadlight, a platformer/adventure game developed in Spain.

  • anon

    The Book of Unwritten tales is supposedly a pretty good point and click adventure game. It’s been out for months
    — quite a lot of them depending on whether you’re German or not
    — but we all know if it’s not on Steam it doesn’t really count.

  • Francis Pope

    The BoUT *is* on Steam though, as of 1 August.

  • tomchick

    I really should have you guys do these wallet threat things! Not only did I miss Book of Unwritten Tales, but I also missed Growlanser for the PSP and Political Machine 2012. Urk.

  • anon

    Right, that’s what I was saying. It’s not really a new game, but for many(most maybe) it basically didn’t exist prior to this steam release.

  • Francis Pope

    Ah. Fair enough. My bad. : )
    Is that common, do you think, people mostly *hearing* about games on Steam? I mean, I buy most of my games on Steam, and all of my games via download these days, but I still hear about most things via gaming sites (Rock Paper Shotgun, et al).

  • anon

    Yes, and there’s also a large contingent who may have heard of it, but won’t buy it until it’s on Steam for convenience or to compulsively increase their Steam collection.