Meridian4 (http://www.meridian4.com) and Frogames have a solution for the cold weather blues; reserve your copy of Penguins Arena, their action-packed, non-stop battle for survival FPS (First Penguin Shooter) from Steam and receive 20% off the regular price.
Anyone who pre-orders Penguins Arena will receive 20% off the purchase price of $14.99 until its release on December 18th.
About Penguins Arena
It all begins when a penguin legend comes to life in the form of Sedna, the ancient Penguin Goddess. Global warming, pollution… Penguin tribes are endangered. Sedna utters them that there is room for but one tribe. And so the purging begins.
Penguins Arena is a thrilling and innovative First Penguin Shooter with very short rounds and where the magic of reincarnation, combined with the supernatural ability to return to the game as a ghost, ensures that your character has every chance to change your tribe’s fate.
Save the Penguins, Save the Planet!
* 5 different weapons and bonuses
* Up to 4 different penguins tribes
* 14 different Icebergs battlefields
* Cute and colored cartoon graphics
* Short rounds and furious, intense gameplay
* Player interaction, even after death
* Reincarnation system
* 10 Steam Achievements to unlock
* Multiplayer game (LAN or Internet)
Check out some gameplay footage:
Check it out courtesy of 1up.com:
From Wired.com:
1992: Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category.
Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first “first-person shooter,” as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful. Technically the genre goes back to the ’70s, but no one really paid any attention to it. Even id released an earlier FPS called Catacombs 3D, but again, it wasn’t nearly as good as Wolfenstein.
But through massive online dissemination of the game’s shareware version, Wolfenstein 3D (the hyphen was later dropped from the name) introduced millions to an immersive world in which the action seemed to be happening from the player’s perspective.
“It was an incredible sensation, really unlike anything gamers had seen before,” said Jamie Madigan, who helps operate the GameSpy Network’s 3D Action website. “You could move smoothly in 360 degrees. You felt like you were there.”
“Everything that’s followed in [its] footsteps has just been a modification of that basic style,” id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead said in 2001.
Players in the game assume the role of an American commando battling Nazis and their supernatural servants. It was banned in Germany because of its use of Nazi symbols, like the swastika, and music, like the “Horst Wessel Lied.”
Wolfenstein 3D did more than define a genre. It also launched a company, id Software of Mesquite, Texas, which leveraged Wolfenstein 3D’s success into a franchise of wildly successful first-person shooters, including the seminal Doom and Quake series.
These games, in turn, begat a slew of sequels, imitators and adaptations, from Half-Life to Max Payne.
Wired.com Game|Life blogger Earnest Cavalli added, “The key to the whole Wolfenstein thing is that its success — which was massive — paved the way for … thousands of games that mimicked them, transforming the PC into a gaming system best known for FPS titles. Plus, who doesn’t like killing Nazis?”
Relive the memories:
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