Anuman Interactive has announced that XIII: Lost Identity will be released on PC, Mac and iOS in November.

It is unknown whether the game is related to XIII, the graphic novel first person shooter based on a Belgian comic book of the same name, which was released for PC, Xbox and GameCube. However, it is known that Anuman joined Media Participations Group in 2009, which owns comic book publisher Dargaud, who owns the rights to XIII.

Anuman has published mostly adventure games under its banner, so it could be that XIII: Lost Identity won't be a shooter, but a graphic adventure.

Strategy Informer will follow this story and update it when new information comes in.

We promised it would be coming soon--and here it is! Today we’re adding to the catalog Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen’s Odyssey, released in full EFIGS glory.

After Twinsen defeated the evil Dr. FunFrock it seemed like everyone would live happily ever after until a sudden cloudstorm covered the Citadel Island horizon. Your flying Dino friend from the first Little Big Adventure, is hit by a bolt of lightning and crashes into Twinsen’s garden. Upon investigating, Twinsen finds out that something strange is lurking above the planet of Twinsun. Aliens are visiting, and they’d like to invite Twinsun’s wizards to come visit their home planet.

Twinsen isn’t a wizard, really, but he has a nose for trouble and this looks like something that needs to be investigated, so once again it’s up to you as Twinsen to don your Ancestral Tunic and embark on a quest that will take you to new vistas and new dangers. As a newly-graduated wizard, you will be called upon to visit and save more than just one world. This time you’ll visit 3 different planets, each with its own graphical style and a multitude of locations!

Of course, like any sequel, there are improvements in store besides the bigger and better story and locations. Little Big Adventure 2 has a fully 3D outside world, and the familiar and proven 3D engine for inside rendering as well. The camera got an update too, and now you can rotate the perspective. Dialog is voiced by all of the characters, and with full EFIGS localization it’s helluva treat!

If you’ve missed on either of the Little Big Adventure games, treat yourself to this wacky French classic series and buy them for $5.99 each!

Not every digital distributor is trying to offer a complete catalog of every new game. In fact, one digital distributor, GOG.com, has chosen to focus on what they call Good Old Games... hence the name. They've been busy getting rights to old PC games and making them compatible with newer versions of Windows, and now offer hundreds of old games at quite reasonable prices (usually ranging from $5.99 to $9.99). IndustryGamers asked Managing Director Guillaume Rambourg about their digital distribution strategy.

Today we’re adding another classic FPS to our ever-growing catalog, ArmA: Gold Edition, for the paltry price point of $9.99. This version of the game includes the original ArmA: Armed Assault and its expansion Queen’s Gambit.

Bohemia Interactive worked hard on delivering a sequel to their award winning franchise, taking years to release ArmA: Gold Edition. This military simulator takes place on a fictional Atlantic island of Sahrani, divided into two countries: the communist dictatorship in the north and the democratic kingdom in the south. When US forces stationed there leave the southern country for training, the northern neighbour attacks. You are one of the US soldiers that hasn’t left the island yet, so you join the local militias and fight the aggressive regime!

The terrain featured in the campaign measures up to 400 square kilometers, and is beautifully rendered by the Real Virtuality 2 engine. All of the weapons and vehicle models are made in great detail, but apart from looking real they behave like the real ones too. Sighting, weapon ballistics, damage, recoil, and reloading are some of the things that were designed to be as real as they can get. The main campaign offers over 20 missions with non-linear scenarios and on top of that the Queen’s Gambit adds two more campaigns, one connected with the main campaign, the other one features a group of mercenaries that are all about stealth and efficiency. If you manage to accomplish all three campaigns, and you still haven’t got enough of ArmA, you can create your own missions with the built-in editor. If you aren’t the mission building type yourself, you can still use the editor to load up and play one of the hundreds mods that are already made by the fans!

ArmA: Gold Edition comes in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish, and Russian languages. The game is DRM-Free as always and can be yours for only $9.99.

We're gonna tear this one off like a Band-Aid, dear readers: The recently uncovered installment in the XIII franchise looks to be a far cry from the game which preceded it. Developer Anuman Interactive revealed a handful of screens from XIII: Lost Identity, which appears to be a puzzle-adventure game set in the world of the game, and expands on the lore established by the franchise's comic book off-shoots.

You can see a few screens on the developer's Facebook page, if you're not too crushed by the lack of gunplay. (Not to mention the lack of Duchovny.)

Halloween Sales!

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within | -50% | $2.99
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | -50% | $2.99
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers | -50% | $2.99
Ghost Master | -50% | $2.99
Litil Divil | -50% | $2.99
Phantasmagoria | -50% | $4.99
Phantasmagoria 2 | -50% | $2.99
Realms of the Haunting | -50% | $2.99
Sanitarium | -50% | $4.99
Scratches: Director's Cut | -50% | $4.99
Shadowgrounds | -50% | $4.99
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption | -50% | $2.99
All of the above | -50% | $43.88

All of these seem nice. I am thinking of getting all the Gabriel Knights, Phantasmagorias and Sanitarium. Anyone gonna recommend me something nice? Or are my choices good enough?

Semi-related note, why is it every time I try to load GOG's site, it seems broken? Like all the fonts turned Times New Roman and pictures don't display. Only after refreshing it like 5-10 times would it load properly...

Those are fine choices. Probably among the best in current promo. And if you like 2D sprite FPS like Duke Nukem 3D or Blood, Realms of the Haunting might be your cup of tea.

All of these seem nice. I am thinking of getting all the Gabriel Knights, Phantasmagorias and Sanitarium. Anyone gonna recommend me something nice? Or are my choices good enough?

Semi-related note, why is it every time I try to load GOG's site, it seems broken? Like all the fonts turned Times New Roman and pictures don't display. Only after refreshing it like 5-10 times would it load properly...

Some time has passed since our last racing game release, so amateur drifters and experienced race drivers rejoice! Today we’re bringing you a good old fashioned arcade racer, Speed Busters: American Highways for just $5.99!

The setting of today’s release is a little bit bizarre: a local law enforcement officer has won the lottery and he kind of went bonkers. Instead of leaving his job and spending the rest of his life on a pension somewhere in the Caribbean, he decided to host a series of races where he sits by the speed traps and instead of enforcing the law on the racers, he is rewarding the fastest of them with money!

The game has several different modes you can play through. Choose the championship mode to start with a set amount of money, choose a car to buy and upgrade it (nitrous, a giant wing, etc.). Then compete in a set of circuit races in order to gather more money to repair or upgrade your car. The cash reward is multiplied by how fast you went past the policemen in the race. The arcade mode lets you choose between cars, tracks, weather conditions (rain, fog or clear), and time of day (day or dusk). After that you jump into a race to beat the clock and drive through checkpoints to continue racing like in your favorite arcade racer of yore. Shortcuts are not rare, hidden tracks will reward those who enjoy the game to the max, and the trigger happy ram’n’slam game play will let you chill out after a day full of work. The car design unifies a classical old-school feel of muscle cars with a futuristic line of the crazy arcade setting Speed Busters: American Highways is known for. Apart from tuning the insides of your mechanical beast, you can also use a variety of paint and skin options to customize your ride to your grease-monkey heart’s content.

Grab the DRM-Free version of Speed Busters: American Highways for only $5.99 now, and get paid for speeding like a madman!

GOG.com Gifting Club (Steamgifts) is most fun. So many giveaways, only open to the member so the odd is not as crazy like public giveaway. Usually the entries ranged from 10 - 40, depend on the popularity of the game.
Even some generous user offer 3 copies of Skyrim last weeks, but of course the entries were much higher than usual giveaway (80 ++ entries); it was Skyrim afterall.
I only won once, and that was Duke Nukem DLC; only 3 peoples entered the giveaway at that time.

how to enter?

After being teased over two years ago, the return of Mechwarrior is apparently around the corner.

PC Gamer reports that it has the details on the reboot, which will be a PC exclusive title. It will allegedly update with more information in a few hours, with "one very big surprise," so we'll be sure to let you know then.

The franchise has been making its return to the game space, stomping along slowly like an Atlas mech, for several years, with Jordan Weisman's Smith & Tinker obtaining the rights back in 2007. This was followed by a tease of the reboot in 2009, with a trademark dispute shortly thereafter. Since then, things have been very quiet... until now.

Update: PC Gamer notes the game will be freemium and launch in the second half of 2012.