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Game Music Bundle 7: Journey, Broken Age, Luftrausers
Who needs AC/DC and Aerosmith for their gym workouts when you could listen to smooth grooves of video game soundtracks? The Game Music Bundle 7 from Loudr offers 17 albums of audio delights, including tunes from Austin Wintory (Journey, The Banner Saga), Peter McConnell (Broken Age, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft), and Disasterpeace (The Floor is Jelly, Fez). The Game Music Bundle has been running for more than two years now, but if you're just now learning about it, here's how it works: for $1, you'll receive the soundtracks for The Banner Saga, Device 6, Broken Age, The Floor is Jelly and Luftrausers. By paying $10, you'll unlock 12 more albums, including a new solo piano arrangement of music from Journey. To see all 17 albums being offered and scoop up your copy of the bundle, check out the official site. Just don't wait too long, as this particular collection will only be available until May 1. [Image: Loudr]
Free DLC guides roguelike Eldritch to the Mountains of Madness
Eldritch, Minor Key Games' attempt to blend Lovecraftian horror with a first-person take on the roguelike dungeon crawl, will be developing a few new diabolical symmetries on December 19 with the release of the Mountains of Madness DLC. The good news here is that this addition is utterly free. If you own Eldritch, simply download the DLC once it's available, and it's all yours. The bad news is that beyond that we know very little. Minor Key Games has released the above trailer for the DLC, but unless the most horrifying thing you can imagine is inexplicably huge penguins, the footage is scant on the kind of psychological horror players would hope for from a DLC named for one of the Lovecraft's most famous stories. With less than two weeks left until Mountains of Madness debuts, it seems we'll have to wait until then to see exactly what it adds. Personally, I'm hoping for something squamous, but I could easily go for a few unknowable geometries or an antediluvian deity representing entropy itself.
Eldritch review: Terrible knowledge
H.P. Lovecraft once wrote, "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." The quest for knowledge and understanding is a recurring theme in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It is also a quest full of darkness, danger, and madness. Eldritch, from Minor Key Games, nails this concept square on its octupus-shaped head. In Eldritch, you play an unnamed customizable character who wakes up in a massive, abandoned library. Three books are displayed more prominently than the others, and each of these three radiates magic. Technically, you don't have to interact with these books in any way. You could just enjoy the library and live a happy life. You know this, but at the same time, don't you want to know why these three books are special? Surely one little peek couldn't hurt.
Steam Greenlights 31 games: Race the Sun, Mousecraft, Eldritch, Vox
The October 2 batch of games given the go-ahead on Steam Greenlight includes AdventurOS, Age of Wushu, Death Road to Canada, Eldritch, Hyper Light Drifter, McDROID, Mousecraft, Nihilumbra, Race the Sun, Vox and Zombies. (with the period as part of the name, of course). This Greenlight round includes 31 games and one piece of software, Mosaico: Tiling Window Manager. This batch is extra exciting because of the Not on Steam Sale, which also launched today and may now have to consider renaming itself. The Not on Steam Sale includes 35 games that are sold independently by their developers, many of which are also on Greenlight – including Race the Sun, Mousecraft and Vox. These three were all Greenlit in today's batch. Maybe they can change the name of the sale to "Not on Steam Sale, Now Featuring Games on Steam."
Eldritch, a Lovecraftian roguelike, comes from ex-BioShock, Borderlands devs
Eldritch is more than Minecraft and monsters – it's a first-person action roguelike and immersive sim, with non-linear, randomly generated levels, permadeath and strange Lovecraftian beasts, due out on October 21 for PC. Eldritch comes from Minor Key Games, founded by David and J. Kyle Pittman, twins who have combined experience developing BioShock 2, Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. Eldritch could have been a terrifying, stressful romp through dungeons infested with vicious creatures, but Minor Key is taking a more quirky-creepy approach to Lovecraft lore. That blue fish-man creature is downright adorable – but it still has to be slaughtered. Eldritch is available for pre-order now for $15, which includes access to the beta at the end of September and a Steam key if the game makes it through Greenlight.
