While it came out in 2011, I still can't believe it's here. Duke Nukem Forever is the sequel to 1996's Duke Nukem 3D. You know - this game. As with any hot game, they announced a sequel right away. It was 1997, and Duke Nukem Forever was officially in the works… but didn't see the light of day for fourteen years.It's a lengthy tale of cancelled projects and multiple developers, but in the end Forever finally saw release and can now be played - by you - for just five smackeroos.The latest offering on Gamezebo Deals will get you a Steam key good for both the PC and Mac versions of the game for just $5. Lock'n'load folks. It's time to bring the pain.
Within Mansion Lord players will have the opportunity to build a mansion, invite wealthy guests over for dinner, hire detectives when those wealthy guests end up murdering one another, and ultimately collect the bounty offered for the arrest of the murder. The developer, Golgom Games, is combining a number of game types into Mansion Lord, and thus players can expect to find tile-based world-building, turn-based RPG encounters, and business simulation mechanics, all within the game.Players will be able to tailor their mansion in order to draw in more elusive murderers (who are tagged with bigger bounties). Using Mansion Lord's suspect database system, players can check out the likes and dislikes of a specific killer, and plan accordingly. Once the killer is cornered, the turn-based system comes into play, and strategic planning is necessary in order to capture the criminal. The detectives then earn experience points which can be used to upgrade their skill-sets and equipment.
Set in a fictional time period in "Old Europe", Teslagrad tells the story of a boy on the run. The menacing patrolmen in red uniforms chase the boy from his home and pursue him across the rooftops and through the alleyways of his village. With just a bit of luck, the boy escapes the grasp of the patrols and finds himself in an abandoned castle. He stumbles upon an artifact that allows him to manipulate magnetic fields, giving him the ability to move massive platforms and force obstacles to easily move out of his way.These magnetic gloves are the first of many tools that the boy will come across as he unravels the mystery of the tower ruins he has accidently stumbled upon.
Just recently released, Not the Robots is a roguelike adventure where players must stealthily rid offices of their furniture. Developed by Eli Piilonen and David Carney and published by tinyBuild, Not the Robots is the result of an incubation program at HouseOGames, and the first major title the two developers have worked on together. Previously, both Piilonen and Carney produced the award-winning Flash game, The Company of Myself.Within Not the Robots, players will have to carefully go about devouring furniture in various office settings. The trick here is that as the furniture is consumed there is that much less cover to hide from the patrolling guards (armed with machine guns) who are more than willing to end player's sofa-eating rampages.Featuring randomly generated levels, gadgets to utilize and master, gameplay modes that accommodate for the amount of time a player can allot to a session, and controller support, gamers interested in Not the Robots can pick up the title on Steam, for $9.99 (currently 40% off, down to $5.99 as a launch promo). Not the Robots supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.
As a kid growing up, for me, the most exciting part of Christmas was always the night before, trying to go to sleep but instead only thinking about Santa coming and dropping off all the presents. In Quiet Christmas, it's not just the excitement keeping the protagonist up. Players will have to navigate through the 2D adventure game in search of solutions to all of the problems currently keeping the protagonist awake at night. From a broken heater to obnoxious neighbors, players have plenty to do before, as the rhyme goes, "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."As a lighthearted (and seasonal) spiritual successor to Nostatic Software's Quiet Please, Quiet Christmas has been previously released on pretty much every mobile platform: Android, iOS, Windows Phone. The game is available for 99-cents on all platforms.Quiet Christmas' developer, Mike Oliphant, recently spoke out on his blog about the advantages and disadvantages of selling a game at such a low price point.
Available now for both the iPhone and iPad, Tarzan Unleashed is a free-to-play endless-runner set in the universe of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan series. In the game players will take on the role of the vine-swinging legend as they swing, slide, dodge, and jump their way through Tarzan Unleashed's procedurally generated content. Fruit is the currency of the game, and players should strive to collect as much of it as possible, since it can be used to unlock character upgrades and boosts. Diligent players will even be able to unlock Jane and Cheeta as playable characters."Legacy is excited to be the first company to bring the rich legend of Tarzan to a whole new generation of mobile game players," said Ariella Lehrer, CEO of Legacy Games, in a press release. "For more than 100 years, Tarzan has inspired movies, TV shows, animation, and comic books. Now Tarzan is swinging onto touch screen devices, the ideal platform for this iconic license, and bellowing his infamous yell."Tarzan Unleashed is available now for iOS devices using iOS 5.0 or later, though it is optimized for iPhone 5 users. The game is completely free to download and play.
Looking at this week's Chinese news roundup (that was graciously provided by our friends at Laohu.com), there's one theme that seems to recur again and again: Western brands are popular in China.Don't believe me? Check the roundup for yourself. There are mobile happenings that involve an American movie brand, a US fast food chain, and even a few chart-topping Western mobile games.If you like what you see here, be sure to check out Laohu.com for yourself. While they're kind enough to share the top news from China each week with Gamezebo, they're also grinding out news 24/7 for the Chinese market - and with the help of a service like Babelfish or Google Translate, you can dive in to all of it."
Could you imagine a world in which free games and sales simply did not exist? I almost shudder at the thought, as everyone in the world would have to buy their video games at full retail prices forevermore, and probably a lot less of them, at that. But on the flipside, at least gamers like me wouldn't have these massive backlogs of games that they'll probably never even get around to playing!Well luckily for us, we don't live in such a dismal and dark place devoid of gaming sales, and as a matter of fact, we've found a bunch of great ones that are going on this very minute! From huge price drops on the App Store, to wonderful indie bundles, to massive holiday sales, I think we all should go indulge in these countless gaming deals in celebration that we actually have them!"And as always, if we might have missed a great deal or two in our apocalyptic visions of a world where everything is set firmly at unmoving retail prices, then be sure to let us know about them down in the replies!