We have a winner! Saints Row: The Third custom PC giveaway
Congratulations to Logan Tenhet of Tennessee! He’s the randomly selected winner of this blinged-out, custom-painted Saints Row: The Third gaming rig, courtesy of THQ. It always makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside to see an awesome prize like this go to a deserving guy like Logan, who says he’s been reading PC Gamer since way back in 1995. We know he’ll give it a good home.
Now is a fantastic time to have a new PC, since it’ll play not just the hilariously great Saints Row: The Third, but also the amazingly awesome Skyrim, the mind-blowingly pretty Battlefield 3, and (eventually) the irritatingly tardy but inevitably awesome Batman: Arkham City.
For $2.99, THQ will sell you a pack of Saints Row 3 cheats
We just noticed that there’s already some Saints Row: The Third downloadable content available on Steam. Only not all of it is actually content.
The Shark Attack Pack is priced at $1.99. You get a hat and the Shark-O-Matic – a weapon that shoots out “a steady steam of fish guts,” for your cash. We’ve spent money on hats and weapons before. That sounds like content.
Saints Row: The Third released
UPDATE – It turns out Saints Row is available in the rest of Europe, only the UK has to wait till Friday. Apologies to those of you on the continent for assuming we were in the same boat.
Saints Row: The Third has been released! For North Americans at least, those of us in Europe the UK must instead wait and silently curse until Friday. They’ll also get their hands on the Saints Row 3 Team Fortress items, while UK citizens must once again suffer the indignity of seeing a game go missing from our Steam store.
What’s that? You’d like to know how good the game is? Why it’s 83 good! As scientifically determined by Tom Senior in our Saints Row: The Third review. Go read it! It’s a tale of tigers, naked Russian men and autotuned pimps.
Team Fortress 2 gets Saints Row: The Third outfit
With Team Fortress 2 items appearing in Saints Row, it was only a matter of time before the reverse also became true. Now Joystiq have spotted a post on the TF2 blog that reveals new TF2 items for those that pre-order Saints Row: The Third over steam.
The bonuses take the form of a new outfit for the Heavy, giving him a diamond encrusted Lucha Libre mask, a pair of bling covered boxing gloves and a Saints Row fleur-de-lis badge (which can also be worn by other classes). The TF2 blog claims it’s a faithful recreation of the outfit Mikhail Gorbachev wore when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990… er… indeed.
Sadly, getting hold of this outfit will be problematic for UK users, as Saints Row: The Third is yet another game that is inexplicably missing from steam in the UK. As ever, we’re trying to get to the bottom of this story, but no-one is willing to talk to us about it.
Saints Row: The Third review
You really know you’ve made it in the underworld when you find yourself partying in a penthouse with an army of pink ninja bodyguards. In Saints Row: The Third, I’d achieved this within two hours. That’s it, I’m on top of the world, ma. No-one’s gonna bring me down.
Then the minigun wielding ogre clones showed up. In this free roaming city sandbox, you can never predict the future.
It’s worth saying right now that this is the stupidest game I’ve ever played. I mean that in a good way. If you find yourself demanding reasonable answers to questions like: “Why does the tiger in my car calm down when I do power slides?” or: “Why am I being chased by carts pulled by gimps, and why did they just explode?” then you should steer clear of this ramshackle madness. If, however, everything described so far sounds like the best game ever made, then Saints Row: The Third was built exactly for you.
Outrageous Saints Row stunt #8438129: Jet-surfing
Saints Row: The Third is only a few days away from wreaking unbridled havoc on your home, so view this new trailer as a victory lap. Off a skyscraper. Onto a fighter jet. Sure, Rico from Just Cause did it first, but that just raises a more important issue: Why don’t all games let us hop atop jets and travel in style? Watch the above trailer. Now imagine any other game. Feels empty, right? I rest my case.
While you’re at it, enter to win a custom-painted Saints Row PC!
Win a totally blinged-out Saints Row: The Third gaming PC [US only]
Saints Row: The Third is just four days away! You weren’t planning to play it on a plain old off-the-shelf PC, were you? This is, after all, a game in which you can skydive out of a VTOL jet totally nude except for a gorilla mask. An over-the-top, insane crime spree like this demands a PC with some street cred, and we’re co-oping with THQ to give you a shot at exactly that.
This custom-painted beauty is packed with almost $2,500 worth of hardware, including an AMD Phenom II 1100T, a Radeon 6-series GPU, and 8GB RAM, and we’re just giving it away! Hit the jump to find out how to enter and make it yours!
Update: A winner has been selected! As soon as his eligibility is verified, we’ll make it official.
Saints Row 4 confirmed, will be “wilder” than Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third isn’t quite out yet, but THQ executive VP Danny Bilson has already confirmed to CVG that a fourth entry is in the works. “Like any game, if you have a great creative core to it you just keep exploiting that core,” he says.
“I know what Saints Row 4 is about and it is wilder than this one,” he adds, comparing the new sequel to Saints Row: The Third.
Having played it, it’s hard to see how the next Saints Row could be any wilder without the entire game being set in a city-sized zoo full of ride-able giraffes. We look forward to exploiting Saints Row: The Third’s “creative core” when it comes out on November 15 in the US and November 18 in Europe.
Watch the first mission of Saints Row: The Third
Here are the first 12 minutes of Saints Row: The Third. Before you even jump into the character creator, you spend the prologue robbing a bank by using a helicopter to tear the entire vault out of the heart of the building. Believe it or not, things escalate from there in the full game. All will be revealed on release day, which is Tuesday November 15 in the US, and Friday November 18 in Europe. Saints Row is landing in the heart of release season, close to Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Assassin’s Creed Revelations and every other blockbuster. Will you be setting aside some cash for Saints Row: The Third?
Saints Row: The Third will get TF2 bobblehead masks, new trailer has Burt Reynolds
A post on the official Saints Row: The Third site reveals that the PC version will come with exclusive character customisation options, including free, bonus “oversized bobblehead masks” of Team Fortress 2 characters. They haven’t released any pictures of the new items yet, but if they’re anything like the mental image I have of a giant, grinning Heavy mask, they’ll be brilliant. The new trailer above unveils Burt Reynolds, too. Which is a bit of a spoiler, but if Burt Reynolds is in your game, it’s hard not to shout about it. Saints Row looks great, and is only a couple of weeks away. It’s out in the US on November 15 and on November 18 in Europe.
Warhammer 40K MMO shooting for “flexible” business model
When I was in high school, I could do the splits. I’m pretty proud of that, so I thought you should know – but also, that’s about what I imagine striking a “flexible” balance between subscriptions and free-to-play in the modern MMO space to feel like. That, however, is exactly what THQ’s hoping to do with Warhammer 40K: The Dark Millennium. How?
Saints Row: The Third system requirements released, render pimps and hos on 2GB RAM
Saints Row: The Third is going to be delightfully nuts. A casual glance at the Saints Row: The Third trailers that have gone before will tell you everything you need to know about the wild tone and Volition’s ‘anything-goes’ approach to building a city. Hover bikes? Sure, why not. UAV attack drones? Throw them in there. A car that collects pedestrians and shoots them out of a giant cannon? Make it so. It’s all playable in co-op, too. It’ll tide us over until GTA 5 rolls around quite nicely
It’ll take advantage of a few of the PC’s fancier processing techniques, too. THQ say that it’ll support AMD Eyefinity, DX9, DX10, and DX11, Crossfire, SLI, advanced depth of field, reflections, ambient occlusion and god rays. They’ve also released the full system requirements. You’ll need a GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD3800 or better to run it, but aside from that, the requirements aren’t too taxing. See them for yourself below.
Saints Row 3 trailer shows novel way of destroying roadblocks
Like Just Cause 2, Saints Row: The Third is giving us a plethora of things we wish we could do in real life. In this trailer, one player uses an unmanned aerial vehicle to destroy roadblocks while another player furiously rides their motorbike down the explodey streets.
We wish we had mates who could do something similar on our trek to work, taking out slow-moving old people, unpredictable children and stupid dogs. Actually, we just wish we had mates with access to air-to-ground artillery. Think of the possibilities. Saints Row: The Third is out on November 15 in the US and November 18 in Europe.
EA’s Origin to sell third-party titles like Batman: Arkham City and Saints Row: The Third
EA’s Steam-challenging Origin digital distribution service will begin selling third-party titles from the likes of Warner Bros Interactive and THQ in November, according to Gamasutra. The service, which EA claims has over six million subscribers, is required to play obscure indie game Battlefield 3 on the PC.
Joining Battlefield 3 are Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City and THQ’s Saints Row: The Third, both of which are the very definition of “eagerly awaited.” These will join some “top new releases” from the publishers, but there’s no word on what these are. EA hasn’t disclosed if Warner Bros or THQ’s back catalogues will show up on the service.
Space Marine co-op mode arrives, in the grim darkness of the future there is only “waaagh!”
Space Marine has finally received its four player co-op survival mode, Exterminatus. An automatic Steam update should add the mode to the Online section of the Space Marine main menu, and will offer you and four friends two maps on which to trounce hordes and hordes of Orks. I jumped in for five minutes and killed about 115 with nothing but a Heavy Bolter and a big power-armoured booty. Stomp, stomp! Dakka dakka! Weapon unlocked!
Experience earned popping green monsters in survival mode will also count towards your overall multiplayer rank, giving you new weaponry with which to embarrass your enemies, which acts as an unnecessary extra motivation to team up and make a big gooey mess of a charging Ork Waaaagh!
