GameFly Digital, the video game rental service’s PC game download site, is currently holding its Summer Sale, offering deep discounts on many popular games.
Some highlights you might be interested in include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is being offered for $5, down from its normal price of $20. You can also apply the promo code JUN15OFF for an extra 15 percent discount, which will get it down to $4.24. The promo code applies to other games as well, but you can only use it once per account, so choose wisely.
Here are some other good deals available through GameFly Digital’s Summer Sale, all of which require either a Steam or Origin client to download and play:
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The game is being offered as part of Xbox’s Games With Gold promotion, which is now celebrating its one-year anniversary by adding an extra free Xbox 360 game to its usual allotment of two. The two other free games for June are Charlie Murder, a beat-em-up released last August, and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, the most recent version of the fighting game.
Xbox Live Gold members can download Dark Souls (normally $20) for free starting today and until June 15. Then, on June 16, you’ll be able to download Charlie Murder (normally $10) and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (normally $30) for free.
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eSports company MLG announced that it has hired former Zombie Studios’ Creative Studio Head Jared Gerritzen as its new Vice President of Publisher & Developer Relations.
The news comes a little more than a month following the release of Zombie Studios’ Daylight, a first-person survival horror game that was received poorly by critics, including GameSpot’s Kevin VanOrd.
Gerritzen worked at Zombie Studios for eight years, and most recently headed development for the free-to-play first-person shooter series Blacklight. In his new role, Gerritzen will focus on helping MLG’s partners take advantage of MLG: Play, a cross platform online gaming tournament system, and Hydra Studio, which provides developers with online services and tools on PC, iOS, Android, and Unity3D.
“I am excited to join the MLG team to help evangelize the brand within the industry and introduce new and existing partners to the power of MLG and eSports to extend the livelihood of their games and better engage with their communities,” Gerritzen said.
GameSpot’s review found that Daylight had a few scary moments, but that it suffered from terrible writing and storytelling. You can find the full review here.
The week before E3 gives us Wildstar, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC, Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tomodachi Life, 1001 Spikes and War Thunder.
Bollywood has a history of imitating popular video game releases in its movies and promotional materials for those movies. Ek Tha Tiger, for example, bears more than a passing resemblance to Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series, and Velayutham is pretty much just Assassin’s Creed with awesome dancing.
As IndianVideoGamer notes (via Kotaku), those movies came out long after the games they resemble, but a new Bollywood movie, 18.11, is already copying Watch Dogs in its posters, as you can see in the image above.
If you’ll watch the trailer below you’ll notice that the actual movie doesn’t look much like Watch Dogs at all other than making reference to some “extraordinary software,” which evokes the game’s hacking themes.
The prize pool for the Dota 2 world championships The International is now greater than $8 million thanks to sales of its digital program.
The Compendium, as it’s called, was introduced last year as a digital interactive program for the competition, where you can keep track of the different teams and make predictions. Each Compendium costs $10, and each sale raises the prize pool by $2.50. As the prize pool grows and hits its stretch goals, more rewards unlock for all Compendium owners and, in some cases, all players.
Reaching the $8 million stretch goal will allow players to vote on which Hero they’d like to see get a reworked model.
The International Dota 2 Championships will take place July 18-21 at the Key Arena in Seattle. That gives Dota 2 fans plenty of time to hit the $10 million mark or even more. There are many more rewards and updates that come with this year’s Compendium. For more details, check out its official website, or GameSpot sister site onGamers’ great breakdown.
