Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:22 PM PST

“Let’s make Psychonauts 2 happen,” tweeted Minecraft creator Markus Persson (AKA Notch) yesterday to Double Fine CEO, and designer of the original game, Tim Schafer.

Notch’s Tweet alone would pique the interest of Double Fine fans. Pychonauts‘ retail performance was so poor that mentioning it at this point, after Double Fine has produced so many other excellent titles, seems kind of cliché, meaning that all hope for a Psychonauts sequel died years ago. However, Notch didn’t just tweet, Tim Schafer responded, “Oh wait. Hm. This is interesting.”

Psychonauts

As if to help build up fan anticipation, Steven Dengler, XE.com founder and the man who funded Costume Quest on PC and Pychonauts on Mac, tweeted to Notch and Schafer, “Let’s move this discussion offline.”

After the trio went dark Double Fine released this statement: “Tim and Markus are talking. Who knows what might happen?”

I can’t quite think of any time in video game or entertainment history when a young upstart like Mojang reached out to a more experienced artist like this. Usually the older reaches out to the younger — think Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. We racked our brains over lunch trying to think of a precedent. I momentarily considered Johnny Cash, Trent Reznor, and the song Hurt, but the two artists didn’t collaborate directly on the single, even though it helped bring Cash’s music to entire generation of young people.

Let us know if you can think of a similar example, but I think that something like this could only happen in the games industry for a few reasons. First, new millionaires are regularly created and destroyed in the game industry. Three record labels own almost 100% of the American music industry, and those same three companies will still find themselves in more or less the same place five years from now. Compare that to games, Mojang made millions overnight, so did Zynga — but the latter might lose their fortune nearly as quickly if current trends continue. Major publishers regularly rise and fall — THQ may be on its way out, but who cared about WB games five years ago. Only in an industry with so much volatility would a new-comer like Mojang have the capital to aid an experienced studio like Double Fine.

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RIFT

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:22 PM PST

Trion Worlds is surely making its vision of global domination coming true. After expanding RIFT to various continents and regions, including Korea and Taiwan, the biggest pie is finally set – the China market. While no publisher has been announced so far despite a contract being signed (to keep the community in suspense), the official RIFT microblog (or Weibo) has gone up, giving us a glance how the initial website looks like. 2012 seems like an even better year for the company.

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Weekend Deals: Company of Heroes and Lots of Sega

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Company of Heroes Tales of Valor

Steam is having a big sale on every Sega product on the service, with prices ranging from 50-90% off what you’d usually pay. There were too many individual deals to list below, but of particular note is the Sega Collector Pack ($79.99, down from $576.52), the Sega Genesis Classics Collection ($7.49 from $29.96) and Alpha Protocol ($2 from $19.99). Alpha Protocol is a very flawed game, but at this price it’s definitely worth picking up if you’re willing to work around its issues by doing things like attempting to avoid letting enemies detect your presence.

Steam is also offering all of the Company of Heroes games on the cheap. They’re some of the best strategy games to come out in years, and to be able to get the CoH Complete Pack for $9.99 is a steal.

Amazon continues to offer discounts on recently-released PC game downloads like Dead Island and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, more than one place has The Witcher 2 discounted to $29.99, and Civilization V is $14.99 on Impulse. And if for some reason you still feel compelled to try out the disaster that is Duke Nukem Forever for yourself, it’s only $9.99 on Impulse.

Read on for a look at this week’s deals and let us know what we missed in the comments.

Amazon

Dead Island (PC download) — $39.99 (from $49.99)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC download) — $39.99 (from $49.99)
Tropico 4 (PC download) — $31.99 (from $39.99)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PC download) — $39.99 (from $49.99)
Test Drive Unlimited 2 (PC download) — $3.99 (from $19.99)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (360) — $16.11 (from $39.99)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3) — $18.70 (from $39.99)
Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage — $9.99 (from $29.99)

Direct2Drive

Pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, get Modern Warfare free
Tropico 3 — $3.95 (from $9.95)
Patrician IV — $7.95 (from $19.95)
RUSE — $11.95 (from $24.95)
HAWX 2 — $11.95 (from $29.95)
HAWX 2 Deluxe Edition — $13.95 (from $34.95)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior — $8.95 (from $29.95)

GamersGate

Two Worlds II — $24.98 (from $49.95)
The Witcher 2 — $29.95 (from $39.95)
Gothic Complete Collection — $17.50 (from $69.99)
Painkiller — $2.50 (from $4.99)
Painkiller Pandemonium — $9.98 (from $19.95)
Painkiller Redemption — $2.50 (from $4.99)
Painkiller Black Edition — $4.98 (from $9.95)
The Guild II — $4.98 (from $9.95)
The Guild II Gold — $7.48 (from $14.95)

GameStop

Duke Nukem Forever — $29.99 (from $39.99)
History Great Battles Medieval — $19.99 (from $29.99)
Body and Brain Connection — $19.99 (from $29.99)
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 11 with Gun — $29.99 (from $49.99)

Good Old Games

All DD classics 60% off

Impulse

Civilization V — $14.99 (from $29.99)
Mafia II — $14.99 (from $29.99)
Borderlands — $9.99 (from $19.99)
Duke Nukem Forever — $9.99 (from $19.99)

Steam

All Sega titles 50-90% off
Sega Collector Pack — $79.99 (from $576.52)
Sega Genesis Classics Collection — $7.49 (from $29.96)
Dreamcast Collection — $7.49 (from $29.99)
Alpha Protocol — $2.00 (from $19.99)
Total War: Shogun 2 — $24.99 (from $49.99)
The Witcher 2 digital premium edition — $29.99 (from $39.99)
Company of Heroes — $1.99 (from $9.99)
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor — $3.99 (from $19.99)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts — $3.99 (from $19.99)
Company of Heroes: Gold — $5.99 (from $29.98)
Company of Heroes Complete Pack — $9.99 (from $49.97)
Rome: Total War – Complete — $4.99 (from $9.99)
Empire Napoleon Total War – Game of the Year Edition — $14.99 (from $39.99)

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Tianxia 3

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:27 PM PST

Back in 2009, I was just starting out on my blog and did a small review on a massive Chinese MMORPG, Tianxia 2 (link). Fast forward a little over 2 years later, its sequel was teased in recent weeks. Introducing Tianxia 3, developed and published by one of China’s online gaming powerhouses, Netease. A quick introductory preview video was revealed as well with no announcement of a Closed beta schedule.

Basically, Tianxia 3 is a martial arts MMORPG, with various new elements added which Netease claims to let players play the game instead of the game playing the players. There will be an interactive world, where every small action by players will affect the overall happenings in the game. This is shown by the ability to build cities from ground up, create players’ very own skills, start their own clans and record history annuals. Interactive environments, time, weather and seasons system are just some of the eye candies revealed so far.

Netease also boast that the game will have various different progression paths for players to choose, with many different “endgame” goals as well rather than just the questing and grinding. Like most of the details, everything is pretty vague right now. The thing which makes me believe the game will not see an English launch is due to the cloud technology Netease will be using. With world -class servers, the game can be played as long as there is a stable internet connection even on old PCs.