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Broken Sword trilogy sale on GOG, fourth game added
Adventurers take note, Good Old Games is currently offering the first three Broken Sword titles at half price. That's three retro adventures for a paltry $9, or $3 each if you're feeling choosy (and you should have the first one anyway). Choose quickly, because the deal is over on Friday. GOG has also added the fourth game in the series, Broken Sword: Angel of Death, to its catalogue, though we've heard rumors that the $10 title isn't worth your precious time. Joystiq has sent one of its reporters on assignment to talk with the public to find out more. Join him on the scene after the break.
Broken Sword 2 Remastered now available on GOG, on sale
The sequel to classic adventure game Broken Sword, The Smoking Mirror, is now available in a remastered version from GOG.com. We'd heard a while back that the game would be fixed up, after a remastered version of the original game sold well, and indeed the iOS version has been out for a while. The newer versions of the game offer the same excellent gameplay along with new graphics, music, animation, voiceovers and a revised hint system. To celebrate, GOG is putting the whole Broken Sword series on sale, letting you pick up the first two remastered titles and the third game in the series (though not the fourth game, Angel of Death) for under $9. By itself, the remastered Broken Sword 2 is $4.19, or $6.99 on iOS.
Good Old Games cuts prices on 290 titles for holidays
Call us cantankerous if you like, but we're still holding a slight grudge against Good Old Games for their stupid "We're shutting down" stunt from a few months back. Today, GOG gives a master class in "How to Earn Joystiq's Forgiveness" by offering 290 games at a discount of up to 50 percent off. All was forgiven when we found Beyond Good and Evil for $7, but by the time we got Broken Sword 2 for $4.19, it was like the whole thing never even happened. Oh holiday savings, what problem can't you fix? [Thanks, Dan]
Broken Sword 2 being fixed up for iOS release
With over one million copies sold (according to Revolution Software), the remastered iOS Broken Sword was enough of a success to warrant a similar treatment for the sequel. Wait, did we just say an adventure game sold more than a million copies in 2010? Wow! Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Remastered, due on the App Store this month, features updated graphics, an "interactive digital comic" by artist Dave Gibbons, and an in-game hint system, just like its predecessor. Revolution has also come up with a clever implementation of "cloud" saving to allow you to keep your progress across multiple devices: it uses Dropbox to handle save data. Update: If you don't want to wait, and don't mind playing on computer, you can get the original version of Broken Swords 2 and 3, along with the updated Broken Sword, from GoG for $7.17 right now. That's $7.17 total.%Gallery-109627%
GOG in the Machine: Broken Sword 3 and Robinson's Requiem
In great news for blade glue manufacturers everywhere, Good Old Games is following up last week's release of Broken Sword 2 with Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon. It's still solidly in the adventure genre, but BS 3 takes its predecessor's 2D presentation and adds a whole other "D" to it. You can pick it up for $5.99.We're not terribly familiar with the other game being added to the service today, Robinson's Requiem, but you don't have to watch much of the video we've embedded after the break to know that $5.99 is an absolute steal.
