Today only Amazon.com are selling Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus for the PC at $6.99, reduced from $19.99 with free shipping if you add another $18.01 to your cart.

A rollercoaster of adventure, death and destruction

Today only Amazon.com are selling Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 for the PC at $9.99, reduced from $14.99 with free shipping if you add another $15.01 to your cart.

A year old Soccer management game, but it’s at a great price

A fist full of Windows games this week with a couple of new GameTap indies to try out. Now you can all try the legend that is… Daikatana

Daikatana
2000 | Action | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 319.6MB
There’s a huge group of people that missed out on trying Daikatana, with the games legendary status, it’s something you should experience. It also doubles as a great competition to see who can stand to play the game for the longest

Infernal
2007 | Action | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 856.8MB
Wow, Infernal is just a few months old and really looks great, it has some totally excessive bloom effects and some pretty sharp graphics that perform very well. Sadly the graphics outshine the rest of the game by a great deal, the art department spent some time on this one, but the gameplay just feels a little flat and dull. Infernal definitely fell short of it’s potential

Blast Miner
2007 | Puzzle | Windows | Cryptic Sea | 19.7MB
Blast Miner looks like a Tetris game, but then you notice the physics, then things start exploding! This is a fun distraction but it seems rather mindless with the main arcade mode. Try out the puzzle option and see what you think

Morning Wrath
2005 | Role-Playing | Windows | Ethereal Darkness | 111.5MB
A brave effort at crating a top down RPG, as much as I can see the effort that went into the game I can’t really recommend it unless this is really your bag

Startopia
2001 | Simulation | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 211.5MB
Startopia is the only other game this week, besides Daikatana that I’d  even heard of this week.  This is definitely the ace  of the releases here, with some quirky characters and decent gameplay. It’s not without its faults by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a good time.

After the break is the listing of the new and current free ad supported Gametap games.

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Today only Amazon.com are selling Lord Of The Rings: Shadows Of Angmar Special Edition for the PC, for $26.99, reduced from $49.95 with free shipping.

LOTRO is a guilty pleasure of mine, it plays much like WoW but it has it’s own charm and unique features. A fan of the movies or maybe even the books would likely have a fair bit of enjoyment from this, especially if he/she only had to pay $26.99 for it.

Collectors edition is just $3 more and includes: FREE subscription(?), 128-page manual, cloth map of Middle-Earth, digital art book, exclusive figurine, exclusive in-game items: “Cloak of the Peace Keeper” +2 Peace Morale Regen.

Today only Amazon.com are sellingJade Empire Special Edition for the PC for $9.99, reduced from $29.99 with free shipping if you add another $15.01 to your cart

Released nearly two full years after its Xbox counterpart, Jade Empire for the PC is a fine and rather typical Bioware Action, Role-Playing game. The game has a wonderful story but the engine feels like a slightly dumbed down arcade version of Knights of the old republic. Regardless, this is still a fantastic game that anyone interested in the main plot will get a lot of fun out of this

Today only Amazon.com are selling Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars Kane Edition DVD for the PC for $39.99, reduced from $59.99 with free shipping.

A decent deal on a collectors edition of a great game. Really, you should buy this.

Today only Woot.com are selling Nyko Air Flo EX USB Controller for PC/MAC – 2 Pack at $8.99, with $5 shipping.

It’s been a long while since I’ve seen Woot sell video game accessories, $14 for two rather nice looking game controllers seems like a good deal to me

Today only Amazon.com are selling Bad Day LA for the PC at $7.97, reduced from $19.99 with free shipping if you add another $17.03 to your cart. No free shipping here

A 2006 American McGee game for under 8 bucks? Sounds like a heck of a deal huh? I’ll give you a quote and a piece of advice and let you make your own decision.

PC Gamer gave it a 20, saying it was “so tasteless I needed to wash myself with lysol after playing the game”

Don’t buy this game!

Today Stockers all across North America are desperately try to keep BioShock on the store shelves. But with all the hype of last weeks premature release by several stores, it looks like keeping this game on store shelves may require allot of extra work and lots of inventory. Last week there were reports of copies of BioShock going for as high as $159 on EBay. With all the hype surrounding this game on the Internet, and the great reviews this is sure to be a huge seller. European gamers will have to wait until August 24th to get their feet wet in this game.

BioShock is a “genetically enhanced” first-person shooter that lets players do things never before possible in the genre. Gamers enter the game as a castaway in Rapture, an underwater utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, players have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same and no two gamers will play BioShock the same way. “With the release of BioShock, we are redefining the shooter experience by providing players with the freedom to decide how to proceed and which actions to take,” said Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. “The teams at 2K Boston and 2K Australia have captured the essence of this underwater world and brought it to vivid life in the art design and open-ended storyline. Welcome to Rapture.” In the decaying art deco underwater city of Rapture, players can turn everything they encounter into a weapon, biologically modify their body with plasmids, hack devices and security systems, upgrade weapons, craft new ammo variants, and experiment with different battle techniques. “The development team has been working on BioShock for years to push the limits in every way possible, so we are excited for gamers to finally experience BioShock as we’ve always imagined it,” said Ken Levine, President and Creative Director of 2K Boston. “We delivered on our promise of bringing gamers a unique and enriching first-person shooter experience that not only challenges their capacity to adapt and survive, but tests their values and commitment to the inhabitants of Rapture.”

BioShock’s features include:

• Biologically modify your body with plasmids which are genetic augmentations that empower you with dozens of fantastic abilities including: send Electrobolts storming from your fingertips, unleash a swarm of hornets hatched from the veins of your arms, or strategically turn enemies against one another with irritants.
• Take control of your world by hacking devices and systems: reprogram enemy security bots into personal bodyguards, modify vending machines to change prices, and transform machine gun security turrets into powerless pieces of metal.
• Upgrade your weapons at Power-to-the-People stations located through Rapture: craft variants of ammo and plasmids by picking up materials in the city to modify them at U-Invent kiosks.
• Turn everything into a weapon: the environment, your body, fire and water, and even your worst enemies. BioShock’s free form combat options allow gameplay scenarios to be approached with a variety of weapons, active and passive plasmids, environmental objects utilization, exploitation of political alliances, or a combination of techniques. Find your style but know when to adapt.
• Explore an incredible and unique art deco world hidden deep under the ocean, vividly illustrated with realistic water effects and truly next generation graphics.
• Make meaningful and mature decisions that culminate in the ultimate question: Do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture to save yourself…or risk it all to become their savior?

For more information, visit the BioShock website, and the community site.

Today only Amazon.com are selling Blizzard Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction for the PC & Mac for $7.99, reduced from $19.99 with free shipping.

Diablo 2 may not be a new game, but there’s still nothing that gives a multiplayer action dungeon crawl quite like Diablo 2.