{"id":8351,"date":"2011-08-15T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2011-08-15T05:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:04:50","slug":"august-15-2011-wallet-threat-level-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/08\/15\/august-15-2011-wallet-threat-level-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"August 15, 2011: wallet threat level yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"8351\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wallet_threat_TSCW.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wallet_threat_TSCW.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wallet_threat_TSCW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you only have a PC, that means you haven&#8217;t played Bastion yet.  I&#8217;m a little jealous because that means you can play Bastion <em>for the first time<\/em>.  It&#8217;s an experience you&#8217;ll treasure and it&#8217;s available to PC gamers this week.  When you&#8217;re done, listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/07\/25\/qt3-podcast-greg-kasavin-and-bastion\/\">this interview with writer Greg Kasavin<\/a> and then buy the fantastic soundtrack <a href=\"http:\/\/supergiantgames.bandcamp.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an Xbox 360, you&#8217;re also in for a treat this week!  Toy Soldiers: Cold War on Xbox Live Arcade is an energetic tower defense game every bit as good as the original Toy Soldiers.  And then some!  I&#8217;ll have a review posted tomorrow.  Suffice to say, I&#8217;m a little bit in love.  Unless you&#8217;re allergic to tower defense games, you&#8217;re going to want to fork over the requisite Microsoft space bucks.  The only reason Bastion and Toy Soldiers: Cold War don&#8217;t merit an elevated wallet threat is because they&#8217;re relatively inexpensive.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re bound and determined to play From Dust, that&#8217;s also out for the PC this week.  I&#8217;m guessing the PC will be the platform of choice, given the graphics and interface problems I had with the 360 version.  However, you have to be willing to play an Ubisoft release on a PC, which is a bit like contributing to a Tim Pawlenty Presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On the unknown front, El Shaddai is out this week.  It&#8217;s&#8230;uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t know.  I got nothing.  I saw posters for at E3 and thought they were for Assassin&#8217;s Creed.  I guess it&#8217;s some sort of anime thing about the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Age of Empires Online goes live this week.  I feel strongly about it and I&#8217;ll have a full review posted tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>August 15, 2011: wallet threat level yellow - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/08\/15\/august-15-2011-wallet-threat-level-yellow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"August 15, 2011: wallet threat level yellow - 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