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Pride of Nations


Release: 07.06.2011
Genre: TBS

Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.

Pride of Nations follows such successful historical strategy games as Birth of America, American Civil War, Napoleon's Campaigns, and Wars in America.

Immerse yourself in realistic historical gameplay set on a global map
Play as the world’s Great Powers between 1850 and 1920
Lead one of eight different countries, each with their own personality and agenda: USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Experience the most original diplomacy model ever created for a grand strategy game
Explore a revolutionary system for building armies and fleets
Fight against a strong AI through a number of new game mechanisms
Battle it out with others in multiplayer with a new simultaneous turn-based engine
Engage in a detailed world economy with realistic components

Official Website

Cinematic Trailer


Gameplay


Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista/ Windows 7
Processor: Pentium® IV 1800+ MHz
Memory: 1 GB (XP) or 2 GB (Vista or W7)
Hard Disk Space: 3 GB free on hard disk
Video Card: 512 Mb V-RAM or better
DirectX®: 9.0c or more
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Additional: Internet Connection required for multiplayer

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Operation Flashpoint: Red River


Release: 07.06.2011
Genre: Tactical FPS

Between Afghanistan and China, the world’s next flashpoint is about to erupt. The valleys, towns and mountains of Tajikistan will become bloody frontlines for the might of the People’s Liberation Army, insurgent guerilla fighters and the United States Marine Corps.

You and your fireteam can make a difference. How much is up to you. It’s not the soldier with the most expensive gun or the biggest heart who wins on the battlefield. It’s the smartest. Semper Fi, Marine

Go closer to the experience of the US Marines on campaign with the ultimate tactical infantry shooter
Stand together with 4 player drop-in drop-out online co-op multiplayer in campaign mode and standalone Fire Team Engagements
Become immersed in an engrossing narrative which unfolds over three acts in campaign mode
Play as Grenadier, Scout, Rifleman and Automatic Rifleman classes, each with unique strengths and weaknesses for increased replayability
Earn and spend XP on weapons, attachments and abilities for each of the fireteam’s specialists
Call in Combat Support such as Mortars, Howitzers and JDAMs, whilst AH-1Z Helicopters and A-10 Ground Attack Aircraft provide Close Air Support

Official Website

Cinematic Trailer


Gameplay


Minimum System Requirements
Operating System: XP 32bit, Vista, Win 7
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Core 2 duo 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1GB RAM (2GB Vista/Windows 7), 6GB free hard drive space
GFX: ATI Radeon X1800, NVIDIA GeForce 7800
Internet connection required for game activation

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Duke Nukem Forever


Release: 10.06.2011 EU, 14.06.2011 U.S.A.
Genre: FPS

HAIL TO THE KING

Put on your shades and prepare to step into the boots of Duke Nukem, whose legend has reached epic proportions in the years since his last adventure. The alien hordes are invading and only Duke can save the world. Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses can't stop our hero from accomplishing his goal: to save the world, save the babes and to be a bad-ass while doing it.

The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, non-stop action, and unprecedented levels of interactivity. This game puts the pedal to the metal and tongue firmly in cheek. Shoot hoops, lift weights, play pool, draw crude messages on whiteboards or check out the babes that occupy Duke's life - that is if you can pull yourself away from destroying alien invaders. With hours and hours of over-the-top single player action, and a range of bodacious multiplayer modes, rest assured knowing the fun will last.

Ego, and then Some:

Step into the shoes of Duke Nukem, the steroidal One-Man Army who never fails and always gets the Babes.
Bust a Gut:

Duke pulls no punches. He does and says the things you are thinking. Duke's constant stream of hilarious one-liners throughout the game will have gamers rolling.
World Interactivity:

Spend as much time as you want shooting hoops, lifting weights, playing pinball, pool, air hockey, and slots.
Scale & Variety:

This game has it all; packed with explosive FPS action, outlandish settings, vehicle driving, and puzzle solving — gamers will never tire of the endless FUN.
Multiplayer Like No Other:

Duke re-envisions classic modes of play in his own hilarious and humiliating way. Shrink your opponent and squash him with your foot. Freeze and shatter him. Attach explosives to his back. Roll a pipe bomb between his legs, or just frag him old-fashioned with a rocket.
It's Duke's world, we just play in it.

Did the Alien bastards not learn their lesson the first time? Duke has been on hiatus for some time now, kicking back and franchising himself on the fame he gained from saving Earth from the first invasion. The Aliens have returned to Earth yet again, messing up Duke's sweet routine of dirty leisure habits.

The Alien invaders are stealing Earth's women, especially the hot ones! And they drank Duke's beer. This. Won't. Stand. As Duke battles his way through waves of aliens, the once beautiful gambling haven and Duke Nukem franchise chains are crumbling before his eyes. Time to bring the pain!

Official Website

Screenshots


Debut Trailer


Gameplay


DEMO

Minimum System Specifications
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.6 Ghz
RAM: 2 Gb
HDD: 10Gb free
GFX RAM: 512 MB
GFX: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS / ATI Radeon HD 3850

Recommended System Specifications
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.6 Ghz
RAM: 2 Gb
HDD: 10Gb free
GFX RAM: 512 MB
GFX: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS / ATI Radeon HD 3850

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Alice Madness Returns


Release: 14.06.2011
Genre: Action

Eleven years ago a horrific fire took Alice’s family from her and left her mind horrifically scarred. Afterwards she was confined to Rutledge Asylum, where she struggled to confront her demons by slipping further into her fantasy world of Wonderland. Now, after ten years, she has finally secured her release—yet she still bears the heavy psychological burden of that tragic event.

With her mind in tatters, she is unable to resolve the fear prompted by her strange memories, dreams and visions. Perhaps she’ll do better in Wonderland. She always has. She travels there, seeking what the “real” world can’t provide: security, knowledge, and the truth about the past. But in
her absence, Wonderland too has suffered. Something has gone horribly wrong, and now a great evil is descending upon what once was her beautiful refuge. Can Alice save Wonderland—and herself—from the madness that consumes them both?

Intense 3rd person action: Use multiple upgradeable melee weapons, including the explosive Teapot Cannon, the punishing Hobby Horse, and the classic Vorpal Blade.

Explore a dark and shattered Wonderland: Encounter familiar but now strange characters, including the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar and the Red Queen.

Magical abilities: Obtain peculiar abilities in Wonderland such as floating with Alice’s dress, shrinking, or growing to towering sizes in order to crush enemies.

Interactive puzzles: Intuitive and rewarding puzzles such as transforming obstacles, musical memories, chess, and picture blocks

Official Website

Trailers:




Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista with SP2, Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 1.60GHz or greater; AMD Athlon X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.60GHz or greater.
RAM: 2048MB or greater
HDD: 8.5 GB
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256MB or ATI Radeon X1650 256MB or greater*
Direct X: DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 8400, 9400, 210; ATI Radeon HD 2400, HD 3200, HD 4300 as well as integrated versions of supported chipsets are below minimum system requirements

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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012


Release: 15.06.2011
Genre: Strategy

All-new and redesigned, Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 takes last year's massive hit game to even greater heights with better graphics, more options, and new challenges!

Face off against the AI, or gather your allies for the new multiplayer format: Archenemy, where you team up to take down a single opponent. And if one of your fellow Planeswalkers drops out, no problem—the AI will step in for uninterrupted action!

Featuring ten unique decks, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 also lets you customize those decks. As you progress in the game, you can enhance your deck by swapping in new, unlockable cards!

Gather your allies. A challenge awaits.

Sequel to the Top 10 game Duels of the Planeswalkers: Bigger and better in every way, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 adds new graphics and music, new cards and decks, new challenges, and new multiplayer game modes!

Gather your allies to face new Archenemies: In the new Archenemy format, you and two allies (players or AI) must work together to take down a powerful Archenemy and survive the extra powers from the Archenemy's special scheme deck

New decks using some of the newest cards: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 features ten new decks using cards from the latest Magic:The Gathering expansions, including your first chance to play with cards from Magic 2012. Each deck also offers 16 additional cards that can be unlocked as well.

Modify your deck for your own play style: We listened to what the community asked for, and now in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 players can now modify their decks to play the way they want. Players can add or remove cards from both starting cards and earned unlocked cards for each deck. Want more spells or creatures in your deck? The choice is yours!

Fifteen puzzling challenge levels: Puzzles are back and better than ever with difficulties ranging from easy to (really) hard including new Archenemy challenges.

Three- and Four-Player Online Co-op: Online co-op play is introduced to Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 for the first time as players can invite their friends to partner up with them at any time to take on the Archenemy or play against live opponents in Two-Headed Giant competition.

Official Website

Trailer:


Gameplay Screenshot


Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP with Service Pack 3
Processor: 2GHz CPU (Pentium 4 or equivalent)
Memory: 1GB RAM (2GB for Vista)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c or later
Hard Drive: 700MB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video: 256MB VRAM GPU capable of Pixel Shader 3 or better

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Dungeon Siege III


Release: 17.06.2011
Genre: Action, don't even try to tell me it's an rpg

For centuries legionnaires have protected the nation of Ehb until they were betrayed and all but driven to the brink of extinction. Now that evil has returned to Ehb the people turn to the few remaining Legionnaires for the protection of the past. As an heir to the legion will you accept this plea for help? How it will all be resolved is up to you!

Dungeon Siege III is an Action RPG that seamlessly blends intuitive fast-paced gameplay, a robust RPG system featuring a large selection of abilities, loot galore and the depth of story Square-Enix and Obsidian Entertainment are known for creating. Players will be able to adventure by themselves, on the couch with friends, or online in a fully multiplayer experience.

Official Website

Trailers





Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 1.5 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3870 or NVIDIA 9800 GT
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 4 GB for full installation
Sound: No accelerated sound hardware required

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EVE Online - Incarna


Release: 21.06.2011
Genre: MMORPG, "Lazers - pew pew!"

Set Foot into Captain’s Quarters - Step out of your pod and into your own personal capsuleer suite, filled with the tools and toys that every pilot's pad should have.

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall… - Browsing through your wardrobe and changing your appearance is a matter of simply stepping up to the mirror and clicking. Customization mirrors will be available in all Captain's Quarters.

Redone and Feature-filled New Player Experience - New players will embark on an improved tutorial mission designed to provide an epic and engaging experience. Aura, the classic voice of EVE Online's earlier tutorials, has returned to the new player experience! She's learned German and Russian as well.

The Noble Exchange(NeX) - Luxury items, rarities and articles of distinction can be purchased through the Noble Exchange (NeX), a boutique for the discriminating capsuleer, available in each station. NeX items can be purchased directly using Aurum, a new unit of currency obtained by converting PLEX, or through the market from any capsuleer who has purchased them and put them up for resale to other players.

Amarr’s Modern Maller Arrives - The Imperial Navy has redressed some of its cruiser-class ships, unveiling sleek new architecture and sophisticated detailing for the Maller, Sacrilege and Devoter .

Looking Good with Your Guns Out - New models and animations were created for most combat and industrial turrets currently in-game. Players can now preview turret animations by clicking their image in the Show Info window.

ECM Changes for Better Battle - We've rebalanced the number of ECM NPCs in a wide range of missions, especially the lower tier missions, to make sure those ECM NPCs aren't getting out of hand.

Traffic Advisory: Jumpbridge Changes Ahead - We've limited jumpbridges to one per system. To make them easier to use and decrease the logistics burden, we've also increased their fuelbay to 30,000m2.

Faction vs faction standings - Due to popular demand, we've re-introduced a standings tab for factions. You can now check your faction relations with the other factions from the Show Info window.

Performance Improvements - The ongoing initiative to optimize performance continues in Incarna, with multiple back end enhancements and fixes to improve user interface, gameplay and connection. Iteration on weapon grouping code, an updated channel retrieval system and refactoring of server-to-client fixes have all contributed to throttling up performance in the Incarna expansion.

Official Website

Trailers



Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 / Vista / 7
CPU: Intel Pentium® or AMD @ 1,5 Ghz or greater which supports SSE2
RAM: XP (SP2) – 1 GB / Vista – 1.5 GB
HD space: 20Gb Free Space
Network: DSL connection or faster
Video: ATI X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT or higher with 128 MB of Video RAM*
Drivers: DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
DVD-ROM : 2 speed DVD reader or greater required.

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DOWNLOAD Magicka DEMO-289 MB @ STEAM

I'm also playing Magicka right now and loving it.
Did notice it before, but somehow missed it for a year.

Not sure about longevity, but playing through the campaign was really fun (basically, the game is made of references) and multiplayer is hilarious.

So are some related videos by TotalBiscuit. Though the first one really says it all:



And he's right!

[Medea Fleecestealer]

Did have a quick try of Magicka, but Steam gave me so much trouble trying to start the game that I've taken it all off the machine for the moment. Also have The Cursed Crusade, but haven't managed to get in to play that yet because of Steam hiccups.

Anyone tried Confrontation yet? It's a group Action/RPG (by that I mean group of heroes as in Balder's Gate, etc., and not just a single hero as in TQ) which looks like it might be interesting. Not that I get on well with group hero games, I prefer just a single toon to have to look after.