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Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 out on Mac, RO2 free this weekend
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 finally invades Mac today, over seven years after it stormed Windows and Linux. Tripwire Interactive's tactical first-person shooter was developed from Red Orchestra: Combined Arms, which itself is a conversion mod of Unreal Tournament 2004. Meanwhile, sitting next to the Mac attack is a tempting deal for the game's follow-up.Not only is 2011's Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad free on Steam this weekend, but permanent capture of the game will endure 85 percent less wallet-based casualties than normal, with the game down from $19.99 to just $2.99. The 85 percent deal also applies across the Red Orchestra franchise deal, which includes Ostfront 41-45, RO2 and its deluxe upgrade. However, since RO2 isn't out for Mac yet, it only applies to Windows users - give it another five or so years, Mac.
Humble Weekly Sale serves up Red Orchestras, Killing Floor
This week Humble Bundle is tripping over itself to give you some great deals from Tripwire, all unlockable on Steam. It's like a Steam sale, but without the risk of accidentally buying a dozen other games because they're right there and hey, that really is a great price. This week the Humble store has Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 for PC and Linux, and Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad GOTY for PC, available for $1 or more. Pay more than the average (currently less than $3) and also grab Killing Floor and some of its DLC.As with all Humble purchases, the money goes to charities Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the developers and the Humble store itself, in whichever breakdown you choose. Each game also comes with its original soundtrack, at no extra charge. Unless you decide you want one.The Humble Mobile Bundle sale is also live now for one more week, featuring Android games Contre Jour, Anomaly Korea, Plants vs. Zombies, Bladeslinger, locked games Metal Slug 3 and The Room, and three new additions: Funky Smugglers, Raiden Legacy and Another World. Pay more than the average to get those last five goodies.
Red Orchestra 2 delayed for a little extra tuning
Tripwire Interactive has announced a delay for its upcoming World War 2-themed first person shooter sequel Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad. The game, which is a sequel to a title that was originally based on an Unreal Tournament mod, was set to come out at the end of this month, but will instead arrive on September 13. Tripwire says it's using the extra two weeks to "get it right and add the extra polish the game (and the players) deserve." We're not sure exactly what needs to be tuned up or what notes they want to hit, but we'd imagine the situation at Tripwire HQ lately must sound a little something like this.
Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad announced
We're as tired as anyone of our seemingly never-ending tour of duty in the Great War, Part Deux. Still, given the unconventional road Red Orchestra has traveled we're just a teensy bit curious what developer Tripwire Interactive has tucked inside its pit helmet. The Georgia-based studio has officially made known Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad, the sequel to 2006's Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, itself based on the company's celebrated Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, Red Orchestra: Combined Arms. And, breathe.Heroes of Stalingrad will again find players seeking shelter in gun-pits as bullets fly between German and Soviet forces, this time during the historic and bloody Battle of Stalingrad. Setting expectations, Tripwire promises "gritty, vicious combat" and "unrivaled accuracy and attention to detail." While there will of course be multiplayer, the dev also notes players will lace up in the boots of a German soldier as part of a solo campaign told from the Axis point-of-view, something Tripwire claims as a "first" for the FPS genre. No release date has been announced, though armchair soldiers can find out more in the pages of May's PC Gamer.
Destineer taps Unreal Engine 3 for new project [update]
These days, it's often more difficult to find a company who is not using Epic's Unreal Engine for something rather than one that is. Be that as it may, Minneapolis-based Destineer, the distributor behind the Unreal Engine-based Red Orchestra, have continued to look to the popular middleware solution, announcing that the studio has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for an upcoming project.Nothing yet has been announced about the game, though Destineer's pedigree suggests that we should at least save a spot for the title on our ever-crowded radar. The company was founded in 2001 by former Bungie exec Peter Tamte, and has been involved with realistic combat games, such as First To Fight , which is so realistic that it's used by the U.S. Marine Corps for training purposes. That's all well and good, but we're hoping that Destineer uses the new license for something more creative, like letting us be farmers.[Update: Corrected Destineer's role in Red Orchestra.]
Five days of free Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
We figured we'd hold onto this until you could actually get your hands on it ... so now, after 1:00PM PST on Wednesday, August 2nd, you can open up your Steam client, download Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, and play the entire dubya-dubya-aye-aye squad-based multiplayer shooter for five whole days and spend exactly nothing! Idea being, once those five days are up, you're going to have a serious hankering to leave the files on your system and pony up the $24.95 asking price to unlock the thing and keep on playing. Anyone whose been playing this want to offer their feedback to the class?
