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Vaudevillian beat-em-up Foul Play raises XBLA, PC curtains next month
> Foul Play, the Victorian era's answer to Castle Crashers, takes the stage on XBLA and PC on September 18. The game, which mixes two-player local and online co-op brawling with the revelry of a Vaudeville stage show, comes courtesy of suitably British studio Mediatonic, the team behind Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess and the Amateur Surgeon series. Foul Play features demon-hunter Baron Dashforth and his sidekick Scampwick as they put on a show chronicling the thrills and spills of the Baron's life. So, rather than survival, the aim is to keep the audience entertained. Messages of "ACCEPTABLE!" and "SPLENDID!" pop up as score multipliers are raised, rewarding players for thwacking enemies around the stage in creative ways. When we saw the game last year, creative director Paul Croft described it as "like a side-scrolling brawler meets Rock Band," because it eschewed traditional health bars and damage meters, allowing players to simply focus on putting on a jolly good show, what what. Mediatonic has yet to put a price on admission, although Croft suggested £10 as a possibility, which converts to around $15.
Sega selection goes 2 for $15 at Get Games, or 6 for $30
PC digital distributor Get Games has a couple of weekend sales worth a gander, especially if you're fond of your Sega. Choose to part with $15, and you can have two of six Sega games, including Shogun: Total War, Jet-Set Radio, Aliens vs. Predator, Binary Domain, Sonic Generations, and Renegade Ops. If the whole lot has you itching for your wallet, the sextet in its entirety is yours for just 30 greenbacks. Either way, the offer's good until Monday, December 3 at 11AM ET.Sneakier types may be pleased to learn Get Games also has a stealth sale, ending on Monday too. It features shadowy entries from the Deus Ex, Thief, Hitman, and Commandos series among others. Many of the prices are cut by 75 percent, including those for Deus Ex: Human Revolution ($7.49) and Hitman: Blood Money ($2.49).If you can't decide between stealth and Sega, Alpha Protocol has you covered. It's also down by 75 percent, coming in at $4.99.
Hotline Miami due on PC download services this year
Hotline Miami, Dennaton Games' over-the-top, top-down action game, is making housecalls this year on Steam, Get Games, and other unspecified PC download platforms. In addition, publisher Devolver Digital re-confirmed plans to put the games on consoles, though details have yet to be announced.The trailer accompanying the news should ensure that you don't forget about the game until its release. The imagery is ... memorably violent. Yes, let's go with "memorably."%Gallery-162297%
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter takes its turn in October
Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer is releasing Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, its turn-based mutation of Croteam's FPS franchise, in mid-October. Publisher Devolver Digital has been oddly hesitant to name platforms for anything in the Serious Sam Indie Series -- of which this is the last known game to be released -- so we're in the unusual position of being weeks from release and only now learning that it's a PC game. And as such, it'll be available on Steam, Get Games, and unspecified other digital distribution services, for $4.99.%Gallery-135110%
Develop: How is digital distribution changing the games you play?
Now that services like Xbox Live, PSN, Steam and the iPhone App Store have proven digital distribution as a market force to be reckoned with, it's time to start examining what this change means to publishers and developers. Four game industry veteran got up on stage at the Develop Conference in Brighton this week to do just that. On the one hand, some saw the increasing influence of digital distribution as having a democratizing effect on the market, letting big publishers and small indie developers compete on even footing. BioWare's Greg Zeschuk argued that, these days, a well-known brand isn't enough to sell a low-quality game on its own. "EA hasn't been throwing out half-assed content [on digital platforms]," he said. "You not only have to have the franchise but also the quality."
Eurogamer wants you to get games from its new service, 'Get Games'
The digital distribution arena gained one more challenger recently, after Eurogamer announced its new PC game distribution platform, "Get Games." Like IGN's DIRECT2DRIVE, the service will offer downloadable PC games paired with editorial content from the "mother" site (Eurogamer). Partnering with UK digital distributor Mastertronic -- and in turn, company boss and totally not a video game character, Andy Payne -- the idea is to harness Eurogamer's "quality editorial content and eyeballs" as well as Mastertronic's "five years and vital experience in this space."GamesIndustry.biz says Get Games will host free-to-play, indie, classic, and new titles. No mention of Eurogamer's relationship with existing partner Metaboli (a very similar service) has been made and it remains to be seen whether Get Games and Metaboli will coexist on Eurogamer's site.
