Paradox Interactive Holding 75% Off Halloween Sale

The time for cheap games is normally in mid-summer and the holiday season -- in other words, when Steam holds one of its legendary sales. This year, everyone seems to have gone a little Halloween crazy too, though, with the latest to join the fray being strategic specialists Paradox Interactive.

Three of Paradox's titles will be available for 75% off during the course of the sale, which will be running until November 1 on Steam, October 30 on Gamersgate and Green Man Gaming, and October 31 on Impulse.

First up is the Penumbra Collection, a pair of horrific adventures that task players with navigating an underground complex and discovering the truth behind your father's disappearance. Grab it from Steam, Gamersgate, Impulse or Green Man Gaming.

Next is Woody Two Legs, a top-down arcade shooter than challenges players to hold off the advancing hordes of zombie pirates by, well, shooting them. It's a fun casual blaster for fans of score attack-style gameplay. Grab it from Steam.

Finally comes Fort Zombie​, an RPG that focuses on a single location -- the titular fort -- and revolves around you defending it against the zombie hordes through completing missions and acquiring materials with which to upgrade it. Paradox describes it as "Dungeon Master meets Fallout," which sounds pretty good to me. Grab this one from Gamersgate or Impulse.

Keep an eye on the Paradox website over the next few days because it sounds like there might be some other offers over the weekend, too.

Yep, Another Halloween Sale, This Time from Good Old Games

Got a bit of spare cash burning a hole in your pocket? It seems that every digital distribution platform under the sun is willing to take that spare money off your hands this Halloween, as each offers its own appealing range of special offers.

Fans of older titles (or owners of older computers) might want to check out Good Old Games' latest horror-themed sale, which offers a variety of titles for 50% off. The offer includes Sierra's excellent Gabriel Knight series of supernatural point and clickers; the dreadful-but-simultaneously-awesome Phantasmagoria series of FMV adventures; comedic action adventure Litil Divil; shooter/RPG/adventure hybrid Realms of the Haunting​; terrifying puzzle adventure Scratches: Director's Cut; oldschool top-down alien blaster Shadowgrounds; psychedelic point-and-clicker Sanitarium; and the less-good of the two Vampire: The Masquerade games, Redemption. (If you do want to play a Vampire game, do yourself a favor and pick up Bloodlines instead, which is infinitely better, and available for 75% off in Steam's sale.)

For the most part, the offerings in the sale live up to the description "Good Old Games." Considering you can pick all of them up for considerably less than the price of a new retail title, it's definitely not a bad deal at all. Check out the full list here.

Get Beat Hazard for $1 on the Mac App Store

In celebration of the excellent Beat Hazard Ultra's recent release on the Mac App Store, one man developer Cold Beam Games has decided to sell the game for an astonishing 90% off until November 1. That means you can get a copy for $1.

If you haven't experienced this game, it's a twin stick shooter in the Geometry Wars​ vein, with the twist being that you can play your own music in the background -- and said music affects enemy waves, visual effects and even the power of your weapons. The game comes bundled with a collection of music, supports iTunes tracks and also has an Internet Radio facility for downloading new tunes with which to play. There's also a levelling and perk system available, along with online play and leaderboard support.

Beat Hazard is now available for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3​, with an iOS version in the works releasing soon. Grab the $1 Mac version here.

Guardian Heroes | Treasure/Sega | XBLA

If you like hacking, slashing and generally causing havoc, Treasure's classic action RPG/brawler will make you very happy indeed. Offering a branching storyline with five different endings, online play and a total of 45 different characters to play with across the different modes, the game is an absolute bargain at 800 Microsoft Points.

Dungeon Defenders | Trendy Entertainment/Reverb Publishing | PC, XBLA, PSN

Trendy's innovative tower defense/action RPG combo has been a big hit on Steam and Xbox Live Arcade so far -- distribution issues on the European PSN store have meant that the PS3 version is lagging behind a bit, but sure to catch up. If you like the idea of playing online as a team with other people, but are tired of the same old guns, iron sights and grenades, Dungeon Defenders provides a huge amount of brightly-colored fun that is packed with personality for just $15.

This New Saints Row 3 Trailer Skewers Battlefield 3/Modern Warfare 3

Ah Saints Row – is there anything you won’t attempt to parody? This time round the po-faced style utilised in trailers for Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 is the target. Inside: a man in a pink cowboy hat pulling a rickshaw, a rabbit firing a rocket launcher, hoverbikes and a man getting hit in the testicles with a briefcase.

New York Comic-Con Day 5 Delivers Adventure Time, Silent Hill And Cosplay With A Side Of Bacon?

New York Comic-Con wrapped up Sunday with a schedule geared slightly more towards children. Sure there were plenty of things for everyone to do at the show, but they also made sure to have special events, panels and screenings for those younger comic, anime and video game fans out there. I took the opportunity to bring Tristan to his first comic con ever.

He loved it. Did you make it out to the show this year?

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