GamerNode Senior Editor Mike Murphy writes: "Gamers currently live in a world dominated by the modern military shooter. We have the Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield franchises making tons of money on today’s theaters of war and the soldiers who fight the battles within them. After all these years, some are beginning to think that the genre is growing stale; that studios should create new games to challenge the status quo. This is the task undertaken by Fatshark and Paradox Interactive in War of the Roses, a team-based multiplayer title centered on a far more historical military age: the middle ages. The result of this attempt is a valiant one that, while fun, also exhibits a fair share of clumsiness and borrows from the formula that these AAA franchises have made the norm."
GamersGate launched a 2.0 version of their summer sale named, Summer Sale Reloaded. You can find some pretty interesting deals on select PC titles like Europa Universalis IV, War of the Vikings, Hearts of Iron III, Warlock II : The Exiled, The Walking Dead Season 1, DarkSiders II and Deadfall Adventures.
"Pete and Frank are back and at it once again to talk games, games, and a little life. Joining them this week is a very special mystery guest, who is certain he can be taken and seized and ride that seizure all the way to the top. He also plays DOTA, which the guys talk a bit more about. Pete brings ‘Dungeons Dashers’ and ‘Castles in the Sky’ in for discussion and Frank talks about ‘War of the Roses’, ‘Lose Lose’ from Zach Gage, and passively mentions Whale Trail. The guys then talk news and have a heated Rando discussion which sparks some debate between Pete and our very special guest."
In this episode Kingdom Under Fire 2 is announced for North America and Europe, Hardware: Shipbreakers turns into Homeworld: Shipbreakers and LEGO strikes back with LEGO Minifigures Online. The new First Looks focus on Merc Elite, War of the Roses and HeroesGo, while The Most Wanted game of the week is Closers: Dimensional Conflict, a beautiful side-scrolling anime-styled action game out of Korea.
