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Humble Store Nordic sale discounts Red Faction, Darksiders series and more
Up to 80 percent off is on offer at The Humble Store this week on a large collection of Nordic Games-owned franchises, including old THQ-published favorites Red Faction and Darksiders. The Red Faction Collection is available for $9.99 (down from $60) and bundles each game in the series from developer Volition Inc., including DLC for Armageddon. Darksiders 2 is available for $7.49, while the original has been reduced to $4.99 during the limited time sale. Other franchises discounted in the deal include SpellForce, Gothic, Arcana, and Titan Quest. Ten percent of sales at The Humble Store are given to charity. Humble supports multiple charities from its store, including the American Red Cross, Child's Play, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Charity: Water and World Land Trust. The Nordic Games 'Revolutionary Sale' ends early on Friday, April 18. [Image: The Humble Store]
Saints Row 4 'Game of the Century' Edition spotted on Amazon [Update]
An Amazon listing for a DLC-bundled re-release of Volition's Saints Row 4 has surfaced in Germany, gaming marketplace analyst @lifelower reports. A North American release for the package has not been confirmed. According to Amazon's product page, the Game of the Century version of Saints Row 4 will bundle last year's game with all subsequently released DLC and Season Pass content, including the Enter The Dominatrix and How the Saints Save Christmas mission packs. Also included are a variety of ability upgrades, vehicles, and weapon packs, such as the Stone Age DLC and the GameStop contest-winning Polarizer. Other recent lifelower discoveries include a Complete Edition of Metro: Last Light and a Dead Island Double Pack, neither of which have been officially announced. [Update: A Deep Silver representative confirmed the upcoming Game of the Century release with Shacknews, but notes that it's only scheduled for release in Europe at this time. "We hope to have more information on what we will be releasing for the Americas and when soon!" the representative stated.] [Image: Volition / Amazon]
Volition's canceled Xbox One, PS4 game was a post-apocalyptic Western
Saints Row series developer Volition was creating a post-apocalyptic, open-world action game for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 until it recently pulled the plug on the project, senior producer Greg Donovan revealed during a panel discussion at GDC last week. The game, codenamed "Zeus," was to take place in Rio in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster. Players would control a gunslinging Western-style hero, and gameplay would largely take place on-foot, contrasting the superheroic traversal powers featured in Saints Row 4. Donovan cites a lack of time and resources as the reasons behind the project's cancellation. "Right or wrong, we know we could've made this game," he said. "But it would've taken too long. It wouldn't have been the responsible thing to do." Currently, the studio is developing a "top-secret" project built on its early experiments with Zeus. [Image: Volition]
Final Xbox Live Ultimate Sale includes Saints Row 4, Limbo and Metro: Last Light
Today is the final day in Microsoft's Xbox Live sale on Xbox 360, and includes discounts on nine games. The following six discounted items are available through Games on Demand: Saints Row 4, Metro: Last Light, Tropico 4, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon, Oblivion and Overlord 2. The other three games on sale through Xbox Live Arcade are Limbo, Puzzle Quest 2 and Rock of Ages. Head past the break for the full price breakdown of the discounted prices, which are good through the end of the day. Don't forget, 13 other games are on sale on the platform until tomorrow as well, including Portal 2, Batman: Arkham City and Mass Effect.
Saints Row 4 adds five DLC packs, including new weapons
Saints Row 4 players can now wreak heretofore unimagined levels of surreal havoc in virtual Steelport with five new DLC packs. Starting today, players can download the free Reverse Cosplay Pack, which adds the Genki Space Pimp outfit and Freckle Bitch's attire to the in-game wardrobe. Also launching today is the College Daze DLC pack ($3), offering frat boy and sorority girl outfits and a unique barstool vehicle. Sporty players may prefer the Game On DLC ($3), which adds a collection of hockey and golf gear in addition to new weapons. For $1, players can up their arsenals with The Polarizer, which won the GameStop Warped Weapon Challenge. The magnetized gun sucks in passers-by and turns them into deadly projectiles. Cash-strapped Steelport citizens may opt for today's final DLC offering, the Bling Bling Pack ($3), which equips players with money-themed superpowers and a literal Midas touch that turns enemies into gold. [Image: Deep Silver]
Upcoming Saints Row duds let fans properly represent 3rd Street
Showing proper respect for the 'hood is about to get a lot easier thanks to an agreement between Saints Row developer Volition Inc. and gaming-centric clothier Insert Coin which allows the latter to release a line of garments emblazoned with Saints Row themes. Included in the preview images on Insert Coin's site are a Saints Flow t-shirt, a classy Johnny Gat polo shirt, a hoodie sporting Saints colors and, most crucially, leggings covered in the grinning, Cheshire smile of Professor Genki. Visit Insert Coin for a full view of what the company has planned. While there's no specific release date attached to these garments just yet, Insert Coin hopes to release the line at some point in "early 2014." Prices have also yet to be determined, but if the price tags attached to Insert Coin's line of men's tees are any indicator, expect this Saints Row merchandise to be relatively spendy.
Steam delivers free weekend for Saints Row 4, Company of Heroes 2
Sega's military strategy game Company of Heroes 2 and Volition's open-world fever dream simulator Saints Row 4 are next in line to get the Free Steam Weekend treatment. Both games are free to download and play via Steam starting today and extending through Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Company of Heroes 2 additionally drops its price by 66 percent over the weekend, while Saints Row 4 is currently 50 percent off. The Saints Row Franchise Pack is also up for grabs at a steep discount, offering Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row 4, and a fairly ridiculous collection of DLC for $29.99. If a dual-game free weekend hasn't yet quenched your thirst for sweet deals, Digital Extremes' The Darkness 2 is currently priced at $7.49 as part of today's Steam Daily Deal.
Saints Row 4 adds Stone Age DLC on Steam
If you thought Volition couldn't dig deeper for a gag, you forgot about the bedrock. The Stone Age DLC pack has just launched for Saints Row 4, available now on Steam for $2.99. The pack features giant club and bone weapon costume, caveman outfits for male and female characters and a "Flintstone's like car." For those worried, Volition promises the DLC features "100% historically-accurate" content. Based on the pictures of said content, we're inclined to believe them. So, go forth my sex toy-swinging friends and have a gay old time with one of Joystiq's favorite games of 2013.
Joystiq Top 10 of 2013: Saints Row 4
Team Joystiq is barging into 2014 with a celebration of last year's best games. Keep reading throughout the week to see our assembly of ingenious indies and triple-A triumphs. Saints Row 4 is a deceptively smart, dumb game. The developers at Volition Inc. have successfully mated the tightest gameplay in the Saints Row series to date with its most over-the-top weapons (including flight, telekinesis and other superpowers), most drawn out, ridiculous celebrity cameos, and some of the finest funny video game writing ever scribbled down. Granted, the game has its fair share of lowbrow poop jokes (not to mention weaponized sex toys), but at the same time it's apparent that the writers at Volition are some very clever people. Saints Row 4 rarely relies on memes or easy humor, and the surprisingly deep level of satire underlying the experience is simultaneously welcome and totally unnecessary to your enjoyment of the game.
Best Buy's deal of the day discounts Gran Turismo 6, Saints Row 4
Best Buy is featuring discounts on two games as part of its sales for today only. Saints Row 4 is 40 percent off ($29.99) for both Xbox 360 and PS3, saving players $20 on the game's list price. Those that pick up the Xbox 360 version may want to act fast to get the game's season pass at a discount through Xbox Live, a separate deal that started yesterday. Additionally, Gran Turismo 6 is 33 percent off ($39.99) at Best Buy today. By comparison, Saints Row 4 is currently 33 percent off ($33.49) on Steam, a deal that lasts until January 2. The PC version of the game is not part of Best Buy's sale.
Robotic chimp, metal dragon aid sick kids in Saints Row 4 charity DLC
Sure, they're a bloodthirsty gang of polysexual criminals, some of whom literally get off on violence, yet the 3rd Street Saints also have a softer side, and a recent agreement to aid Child's Play proves as much in typical Saints Row style. Here's how things work: If you pay a visit to Steam, you'll notice a new DLC pack for Saints Row 4 entitled "Child's Play Pack." All profits generated by sales of the $3 pack will go toward the Child's Play Charity, which seeks to outfit hospitals and family crisis centers with gaming machines in the hopes that kids might find comfort and solace in one of Mario's colorful adventures. That's the happy, heartwarming bit, but this being a Saints Row joint, you just knew things had to take a turn for the wacky at some point. Included in that $3 charity DLC pack are two new skins for the PC iteration of Saints Row 4, a metallic simian named Robochimp and Digital Dino, which is either a clear homage to Mechagodzilla or proof that creating robotic dragons is just too cool for any development team to ignore for long. Finally, the pack also includes a new vehicle, dubbed the "Retro Racer." It's not much of a vehicle, and looks like a cross between an amusement park ride and that bullet ship George Méliès shot at the moon in 1902. Still, in a world of weaponized dubstep and the vocal stylings of Biz Markie, this new ride barely registers as "quirky."
PSA: Saints Row 4 'How the Saints Save Christmas' DLC out now
Saints Row 4's final DLC mission pack, "How the Saints Save Christmas," is available for download now on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The DLC includes three new story quests, a Christmas dubstep gun, a Red Rider BB gun (you'll poke your eye out) and some vehicles: the Flying Reindeer and Santa's Sleigh. In the story missions, the Saints aim to help Santa Claus, who has become trapped in The Matrix-like simulation that is the setting for the main campaign. Owners of the Saints Row 4 Season Pass can snag "How the Saints Save Christmas" as part of that investment. Everyone else can grab the DLC pack for $7.
Telekinetic time bombs, airstrikes join Saints Row 4 in new DLC
Flight is passé and heat vision is so "Clark Kent," so what's an aspiring, super-powered world leader to turn to when expanding his or her arsenal? Explosions, lots and lots and lots of explosions. The Element of Destruction DLC pack adds three new abilities to the already ridiculous arsenal found in Saints Row 4. First, an attack that allows you to lift and throw enemies, only unlike your normal telekinesis, when you fling this hapless foe, the poor thing will detonate, doing damage to anything caught nearby. If you'd instead prefer to explode dudes up close and personal, the second power turns any enemy who gets too close to your character into a walking (and running and screaming) time bomb. Exploding jerks is all well and good, but the pièce de résistance for this DLC release is the Airstrike Stomp. Like the standard Stomp, this moves allows you to leap into the air, then come crashing back to earth, dazing nearby foes and sending them flying into the air. In any other game that would be enough, but the Saints Row series isn't known for its restraint: Those enemies might survive being propelled into the air, but they won't survive the ensuing rain of explosive ordinance. The Element of Destruction DLC pack is now available for Saints Row 4 at a price of $3.
Saints Row 4 DLC aims to save Santa from the simulation
Saints Row 4 developer Volition will drop some holiday-themed DLC on December 11. The "How the Saints Save Christmas" DLC pack sees Santa Claus trapped inside the Matrix-like simulation that is at the heart of Saints Row 4's campaign, and only the Saints can save him. But there's just one problem: the boss isn't fond of Christmas, despite the visible exuberance for the holiday demonstrated in the art above. The DLC will be available as part of the Season Pass or as a separate download for $6.99 on December 11. Check out the gallery below for more festive shots of the Saints and a snow-covered Steelport.
Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition announced for Japan
Saints Row 4 will bring its bravado to Japan on January 23, 2014. Famitsu reports the Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition will include downloadable content previously released internationally, but we're following up with the game's publisher in the region to confirm specifics. "We won't even be finished with DLC releases in January, so it wont include all SR4 DLC," a representative for publisher Deep Silver tells Joystiq. "That edition is for Japan only since it is the Japanese release of the game." So don't go expecting a Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition with all DLC included hitting in North American or Europe. Well, at least not in January.
Saints Row 4 enters the dominatrix today
The standalone Saints Row 3 expansion, "Enter the Dominatrix," meant to generate any type of money to save embattled publisher THQ but ultimately found itself canceled, now lives on in Saints Row 4. THQ may be a memory, but Deep Silver saw fit to put the $6.99 DLC into the wild. It comes included with the Saints Row 4 Season Pass.
Saints Row 4 FPS mod puts Steelport all up in your face
If you want a fresh perspective on Saints Row 4's unique style of debauchery, a new PC mod will grant your extraordinarily creepy wish. The Saints Row 4 First Person view mod brings Volition's over-the-top open-world experience into the FPS realm, allowing you to wield dildo-shaped bats with increased vigor and personal aplomb. Instructions to download and install the mod are available at SaintsRowMod.com. Though the process is quite simple, the mod is still in alpha testing and suffers from a few bugs. Following the instructions, which are also detailed in the video above, will help alleviate some of the mod's initial quirks. Now ... Cry Havoc! And let slip the hogs of war. Or whatever farm animal of war.
Saints Row 4 'Enter the Dominatrix' DLC gets freaky on Oct. 23 in UK [Update: Oct. 22 in US]
The "Enter the Dominatrix" DLC hits Saints Row 4 with a giant dildo bat on October 23 in the UK. Enter the Dominatrix is the first installment of the Saints Row 4 Season Pass, but it will also be available as a standalone purchase for GBP 6. The DLC includes an alternate Zin invasion storyline with the Saints trapped in a virtual world run by the AI program known as the Dominatrix – from there it's a battle to survive against sex workers and gimps. Enter the Dominatrix includes new weapons, enemies, allies and missions, and features behind-the-scenes commentary. Developer Volition will livestream the DLC on October 23 from 1PM - 4PM CT on Twitch. Enter the Dominatrix was originally planned as an expansion to Saints Row: The Third, and was expected to hit 45 days after Saints Row 4 launched. Turns out October 23 is 61 days after the UK launch on August 23. So close. Update: Enter the Dominatrix hits the US on Oct. 22 with a standalone price of $7. That's 63 days between full-game launch and DLC – if only Deep Silver had waited six more days.
Saints Row 4 loads up GATV, Wild West DLC packs next week
As far as Saints Row 4 is concerned, next week's big-name gaming arrival is 'GATV'. As revealed on the PlayStation Blogcast, the city-based sandbox game receives GATV and 'Wild West' as DLC packs. Going by this GameFAQs leak, the GATV pack features Johnny Gat-styled clothes, hair, and a knifegun(!), but it's unclear what the Wild West pack comprises (beyond something western-y). The podcast only confirmed the packs for next week's PSN update, but we expect they'll come to Xbox 360 and PC versions around the same time.
Saints Row 4 price drop at GameStop
There's an expedited and frugal route to the Oval Office in Saints Row 4, a game in which you foil an alien invasion as only the President of the United States could, and it's cheaper now through GameStop. Both the Xbox 360 and PS4 standard versions of Saints Row 4 are down to $50 at GameStop now (matching the PC version's price), either online or in store. If you want to snag a used copy, that'll be $45. Dubstep gun not included. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Saints Row 4 when the game launched last month. It's an experience our review lauded for its "inventive, hilariously unexpected examples of truly inspired game design."
