Today developer Amanita Design, makers of the popular browser-based puzzler Samorost, announced that its current project Machinarium will hit digital retailers Oct. 16 for the PC and Mac.

Priced at $20, the adventure game will be available on Steam, Direct2Drive, and Gamersgate. If you’re looking to save a couple bucks, you can pre-order it from Amanita’s site for $17.

Machinarium recently won an award for “Excellence in Visual Art” at this past Independent Games Festival. To see why, hit the jump. Read more… »

[We apologize for the tardiness of the review, but the Australian version of Section 8 has constantly been delayed, and was finally just released]

Ever since SouthPeak Games released Two Worlds in 2007, I have been avidly following their publishing career. Two Worlds was a game that offered an incredibly promising idea, but ultimately failed to find any consensual appreciation amongst the gaming community.

Since then, Legendary, X-Blades, and Velvet Assassin have all fallen within the same category of an intriguing idea gone wrong. Does Section 8 break the SouthPeak hoodoo? Or is developer TimeGate Studios doomed to failure with their latest release?

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Only hours ago we announced that the mysterious SFIV New Warrior site had gone live, well… The mystery has already been ruined with screenshots of the new characters leaking to the internet.

Check ‘em out after the jump.

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The age old phrase “where on earth will they go next?” has seldom been as prevalent as it has for the Colin McRae series. Back in 1998 the original Colin McRae Rally was a hit with the masses, bringing rallying into the eye of the mainstream at a time when 3D racing games were only just starting to gain recognition. It enjoyed great success in its run of 6 successive releases, but the future of the series was put in jeopardy after McRae was tragically killed in 2007, a mere 4 days after the latest game, Colin McRae: DiRT, was put on the shelves.

Despite concerns that this also marked the death of the Colin McRae games franchise, here we are two years later with DiRT 2, still intact with the McRae embroidment that was given full consent by family members.

The talented developers of Codemasters have retained a reigning reputation for developing high quality racing games over the last decade, with genre staples such as Race Driver and, of course, the long running Colin McRae series. It’s fair to say that expectations have been riding high on DiRT 2’s soggy suspension. After all, it’s taken on the task of representing the late Colin McRae, but does it do the rally legend the justice that he rightly deserves?

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A new teaser site has gone live, specifically pimping the upcoming ‘new warrior’ for SF4, although not much is shown on the site except some stylish graphics.

Could it be the return of an old favourite, or a new character?

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You may have taken advantage of International Talk Like a Pirate Day’s free Tales of Monkey Island promotion, but today is a holiday that’s quite a bit more real and important… Yom Kippur!

In honor of the Day of Atonement, adventure game legend Dave Gilbert (of Blackwell Legacy fame) is making his point-and-click adventure game The Shivah free for the day!

Hit the jump and prepare to repent!

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[Hello and welcome to The Week in News: your premier news roundup delivered to you by Gamer Limit every Sunday.]

This week we take a trip to Japan, a land of scary cartoons and, more importantly, where a certain game show took place – I am referring, of course, to the almighty Tokyo Game Show.

So join me as I sift through this momentous event, along with everything else that happened during the past week in the world of gaming. Sitting comfortably?

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Following a hands on report from IGN, it looks as if damage will be applicable to every car in GT5 after all.

Previously, the developers implied that only race cars will suffer damage, but this is still partially true as the damage applied to the remaining cars will be seemingly limited to bodywork scratches. Racing cars however will include detachable panels, but every car in the game will still have mechanical damage. It was also confirmed that damage is still work in progress, so hopefully the final product will have a more extensive damage model when GT5 is released next March.

You have to wonder though – is this limited damage a result of time constraints or the manufacturers refusal to allow their cars to be damaged so thoroughly? With Forza 3′s damage modelling also coming under fire, I’m going for the latter. You can make up your own mind however by watching a new gameplay video of GT5′s damage after the break.

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Hot on the heels of their biggest rivals in the football genre, Konami have released a demo of the latest Pro Evo, demonstrating a keen intention to gain back the crown it narrowly conceded last year.

Hit the jump for our impressions of their new effort.

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In the last two decades, hundreds of first person shooters have been released, but among those you’d be hard pressed to find one that takes place during the American Civil War or World War I.  It therefore comes as quite a shock to hear that developer 8monkey Labs has not only created a game that tackles one of those wars, but both in the same package.

Not only that, they also include a campaign for World War II, as well as one that takes place during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Pompeii in 79AD. How can Darkest of Days include all of these different time periods in one game you might ask?  Time travel of course!  What you should really be asking yourself is whether or not you actually want to travel back in time to experience these wars first hand.

To help answer that question and to find out more about this new title, hit the jump.

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Yet more bad news for the PSP:Go according to Greg Miller: Sony representatives have told IGN that “[they] were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons, we will not be offering the program at this time”

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Christmas must have come early this year, because two of the most anticipated games of the Fall, Forza 3 and Brutal Legend, just had their demos released on the Xbox Live Marketplace.  If you have a gold membership you can go download them now and begin drooling all over your controller as your experience how incredible they are. 

I’ve already played both demos, so to hear more specific information about them and to get my impressions, hit the jump. Read more… »