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Steam Summer Sale, final day: BioShock, Bastion, Double Fine bundle

Jessica Conditt — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:00:00 EST

This is it. Dig around your couch cushions, look under the rug and peek between the seats in your car (if you haven't sold it, that is) for any extra change. The final day of the Steam Summer Sale is here.

The last day is going out with a whimper, offering the BioShock franchise for $9.98, Bastion for $3.74, a Double Fine bundle including Costume Quest, Psychonauts and Stacking for $7.49, and Splinter Cell: Conviction seeing a range of deals, starting with the game itself for $4.99. Jagged Alliance: Back in Action is $9.99, Operation Flashpoint Complete (Dragon Rising and Red River) runs $13.74, Football Manager 2012 is $7.50, and Space Pirates and Zombies is $2.49.

Indie Bundle XI includes Hydrophobia: Prophecy, Orion: Dino Beatdown, Star Ruler, Waveform and World of Goo for $9.99.

And that's that, everyone. Summer's over. Now get back to work; you have to pay off all those games you bought somehow, and it's certainly not going to happen if you take the time to play them.

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Orion: Dino Beatdown lets you shoot dinosaurs in different classes

Jessica Conditt — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:30:00 EST

Nothing in life is so perfect that it can't be improved with the addition of dinosaurs. Imagine Jurassic Park without dinosaurs, or Dinosaur Comics, or your wedding day, for just a few examples. See? Everything is better with dinosaurs.

Orion: Dino Beatdown understands this principle perfectly, adding vicious dinosaurs to an otherwise standard class-based shooter. The above video explains how each class can best take down the dinos - but really, it's not as if there's a bad way to play a game with dinosaurs in it.

Gallery: Orion: Dino Beatdown (Classes)

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Orion: Dino Beatdown takes on Steam and OnLive this March

JC Fletcher — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:40:00 EST

Orion: Dino Beatdown is, according to developer Spiral Game Studios, an "open world, class-based cooperative survival sci-fi FPS." However, despite all those words, we think that description leaves out the interesting bits. Let us rephrase:

Orion: Dino Beatdown is a game about guys with jetpacks shooting at freaking dinosaurs.

Sound familiar? You might have actually helped fund the development. Last year, Spiral Kickstarted the project under the name Orion: Prelude. Everyone who contributed to that will receive a copy of the game when its March release date hits. Everyone else can pay $9.99.

The platforms have changed from the original plan: consoles are out, and OnLive and Steam are in. But what hasn't changed is the idea of five players in open worlds, picking one of three classes (Assault, i.e. jetpack guys, and two other miscellaneous non-jetpack classes) and surviving endless dinosaur assaults.

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