May Hurray Indie Royale bundle may be good
Unlike A MAJOR PUBLISHER, the Indie Royale guys actually know what the word “indie” means. Their latest colon-tastic bundle includes Dungeon Defenders, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler, Data Jammers: FastForward, Brainpipe – A Plunge to Unhumanity and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. You also get a few extras: Dr. Blob’s Organism, and the VooDoo Interface and Temporal Logic Grid Blues OSTs.
Games are provided in their Steam and Desura forms, apart from Weird Worlds which isn’t on Steam, weirdly. The current price stands at £3.14, but you can pay more than £4.32 to get Starscream’s album Future, Towards the Edge of Forever.
Trendy offering $1000 prize in Dungeon Defenders map contest
Trendy Entertainment, creator of action tower defense game Dungeon Defenders, is offering a cash prize of $1000 (about £620) for the winner of its first map contest, as well as inclusion of the map in the game’s ranked and open modes. The contest will also award $500 (£310) to the second place winner, $250 (£155) for third, and a “DunDef prize pack” for all winners. The official rules have been posted to Trendy’s forums, and the Dungeon Defenders Development Kit can be downloaded as free DLC on Steam.
President Obama and Mitt Romney fight demons, each other in free Dungeon Defenders DLC
What better way to break open today’s toughest campaign issues than the imminent threat of becoming demon food? The just-released President’s Day Surprise DLC for Dungeon Defenders unlocks four new skins, including President Obama and Mitt Romney, then sets you up to battle for points while avoiding a giant patriotic demon. Of course you’ll also be fighting your fellow players, and at some point Michelle Obama will probably use a machine gun to rain lead pain down on George Washington. If only every presidential debate was this entertaining.
The free DLC unlocks more than just democratic mayhem. Two new pets (a Democrat Donkey and Republican Elephant) and two new weapons are also added. Would-be dungeon debaters can pick up their boxing gloves via Steam.
Dungeon Defenders review
The real heroes of the realm have gone off on a crusade, and only their young pupils are left behind to defend the Eternia Crystals from monsters. That’s the premise of Dungeon Defenders, a tower defence game where you place turrets to stop streams of AI-controlled enemies as they work their way around a maze to attack your base.
So instead of a Knight, there’s a tiny Squire in an oversized helmet and no trousers, and Huntress, who expresses her character by turning around and wiggling her buttocks. The intro warns that “these heroes-in- training will have to grow up quickly” – this might be too quickly.
Dungeon Defenders SDK released, Capture the Flag mode enters Pre-Alpha
For a comparatively small game released on the same week as Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3, Dungeon Defenders has done rather well – it’s currently sitting pretty at number eight in the Steam charts. Well done Dungeon Defenders.
It could be set to get a lot bigger, too: developers Trendy Entertainment have just released Dungeon Defenders’ SDK as free DLC on Steam. The game’s cel-shaded graphical loveliness was built in Unreal Engine 3, and Trendy has included all the game’s source assets in the SDK. Which is jolly nice of them.
Trendy reckons you’ll be able to take Dungeon Defenders’ assets and do just about anything with them, from creating an FPS to a third-person RPG. You’ll also be able to tweak the game to your heart’s content, or create entirely new dungeons to defend.
To demonstrate the benefits of the SDK, Trendy has also released a 16-player Capture the Flag mode as free DLC. It’s currently in pre-alpha, so Trendy wants to know your thoughts and feedback as you play
Dungeon Defenders update fixes bugs, is bad news for super fast clickers
The tower defence action-RPG, Dungeon Defenders exploded onto Steam recently, and has picked up quite a following already since launch. You pick one of four classes and then dive into a dungeon to start throwing down defences against the incoming hordes of enemies. Kills mean experience, which means more creative ways to hold back the hordes. A massive update has just landed, bringing with it a wealth of balance changes and bug fixes.
Bad news, superfast mouse clickers, the update has “fixed potential double-upgrade bug with superfast mouseclicks,” you might want to try and find a way onto the Diablo 3 beta where your clicking prowess will serve you better. There have also been some chunky nerfs to the Spooktacular “Van Wolfstein” weapon, the Huntress’ piercing shot, the bowling ball turret and the harpoon turret. Nyooo! Get the full patch notes below, as seen on Steam.
Dungeon Defenders demo released
Co-op tower defence/third person action hybrid Dungeon Defenders, which came out on Wednesday, has released a demo for you to sample. The demo, spotted by RockpaperShotgun limits players to a single map and caps them at level eight, but is otherwise the same as the full game. You can check it out at GamersHell.
Have any of you been playing Dungeon Defenders readers? What did you think?
Dungeon Defenders gets TF2 cameos and the Portal gun… if you pre-order
Let’s be honest, Dungeon Defenders does not look like an iPhone port. We mean that in the nicest possible way. But the multiplayer tower defence game was originally on iPhone. And the PC conversion will let you play with iPhone users when it gets released next week. Weird eh?
Pre-order Dungeon Defenders and, as is tradition these days, you’ll get a bunch of Valve goodies in-game including The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device for the Huntress hero class and four Team Fortress 2 familiars. We’re not familiar with how familiars work yet, but their roles sound very familiar…
