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To the Moon hits Steam September 7, next episode incoming
After teasing in April that a launch would happen "soon," Freebird Games' To the Moon is officially hitting Steam on September 7.To the Moon has been on our radar since last year, when it made our 2011 Best of the Rest roundup. Back then it was available on the developer's site and on Desura, but it was absent on Steam, a service with a wider audience, higher profile and where a game of To the Moon's caliber truly belonged. To the Moon will be available in English, French and German, and likely Italian and Korean, Freebird's Kan Gao says.Freebird is working on another episode of To the Moon, featuring the same doctors invading another dying person's memories in the attempt to make their patient's greatest wish come true, mentally, at least.In April, Gao said To the Moon will be free on Steam to those who purchased it previously, and that it wouldn't include Steamworks, since it's such a short game anyway. Gao confirms that To the Moon won't use Steamworks for achievements or saves, but "it's possible that a new form of cloud saves will be used."Those who bought To the Moon from Freebird's site, and only from Freebird's site, will get a Steam version for free. This will be on a request basis, since Gao has to manually email each person with a free code. He'll announce an email account for retrieving free codes once it's all set up.
LotRO soundtrack, available for free!
When you can't be slaying orcs in Lord of the Rings Online, you can at least take the music with you to remind you of your glorious defense of the free peoples of Middle-Earth. Turbine is releasing fifty tunes from LotRO as a test of their Turbine Download Manager, a peer-to-peer downloader similar to Blizzard's World of Warcraft patcher. Since the download manager uses Microsoft's .NET frameworks, this only will work under Windows, but the music itself is in .MP3 format and can be played anywhere.Turbine doesn't seem to have included a recording of a line of minstrels playing Freebird in the Prancing Pony in this collection. Maybe next time?UPDATED: Free music no longer available from Turbine. Sorry. :(
Free Bird in Guitar Hero II
In the original Guitar Hero, one of the loading screen tips warned potential rock gods, "They don't really want you to play Free Bird. They're just heckling you." I guess the guys at Harmonix didn't take the tip to heart, though, because a new video has surfaced showing that the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic "Free Bird" will be playable in Guitar Hero II.This comes on the heels of a recent revelation that Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child of Mine" will be in the game and brings the number of songs confirmed for the game to 14. Can a full list of all 55 songs be far off? Check out the video after the jump.
