Here's kind of an insane deal for anyone who's up for a few intense strategy-oriented co-op games. Arcen Games, the studio behind A Valley Without Wind and Shattered Haven, currently haa seven games on sale ranging from 50-85% off. The best part is most of them have co-op!
Today we continue our week long celebration of the launch of Co-Optimus 4.0 with more giveaways. How would you like to own every single game Arcen Games have created for the PC? Enjoying the co-op goodness of not one, not two... but six co-op titles. Today we've got three packs to give away that feature one copy of each of their unique titles.
A new bundle recently rolled into the Indie Royale offices, bringing with it a fistful of games from the commanders of cool co-op titles, Arcen Games! The Arclight Bundle sports ten games in all, each one borne from the loving bosoms of the A Valley WIthout Wind creator, and each one featuring co-op play in one form or another. To summarize: Arcen Games stuff for cheap. Buy now.
An 85% discount on an item is a pretty good deal, wouldn't you think? You could pick up a brand new Corvette for under ten grand. A nice steak dinner for under $5. An mp3 download for fifteen cents. Or, you could pick up a highly polished, deep, and charming puzzle game with an innovative co-op mode for $1.50.
You know those little things that start to bother you when you think about them, but don’t really matter otherwise? This issue of On the Download features a few little pet peeves of mine in the world of digital gaming - things that may upset some people, enrage others, or you’ll just shrug it off.
Last year, we reviewed Arcen Games' Tidalis, and we were quite impressed. It was an editor's choice 5 point review, which we don't give out too terribly often. One of the most impressive features was the easy drop in/drop out co-op for local play. Tidalis can be played with either mouse or keyboard, and if someone walks by interested in playing, they can just grab whichever of the two the first player isn't using. It's a perfectly seamless system, but Arcen wasn't content to rest on their laurels.
Tidalis is a puzzle game for everyone, from the very casual Bejeweled fan to the hardcore gamer who enjoys competitive play. For readers of this site, co-op is the main event, and the cooperative options in Tidalis are particularly robust, while at the same time very elegant and intuitive.
I don't know about you guys, but the beginning of the summer is always full of "I've been meaning to do this, let's get it done!" and left very little time for gaming. So, instead of my general impressions on a downloadable title, let us now take a look at the lineup for this summer.
The beta for Tidalis, a unique co-op puzzler from Arcen Games, launched a few weeks back - but upon initial launch it was missing several cooperative features. Arcen has announced that the latest version includes multi-well co-op play as well as several other improvements to the game.
Arcen games recently announced Tidalis, a match three style puzzler with a unique gameplay element for the PC that adds 2 player co-op play to the genre. We sat down with Arcen games designer, developer, and owner Chris Park and got the details on how the co-op would work.
It was the end of last year when Arcen Games, makers of AI War: Fleet Command, told us they had two cooperative titles in the pipeline for 2010. The first was called A Valley Without Wind, which was a take on the tower defense genre. The game has since been bumped to 2011, but the second was an unnamed puzzle game with an addictive but simple mechanic. Today Arcen has named the puzzle game and announced a beta starting very soon.
