With May 4 falling on a Tuesday this year, it s time to celebrate the very best of Star Wars in PC games. For those who have followed video games and/or this feature for the past several years, you know where to go for your best Star Wars deals. Steam has the full collections to go along with individual titles. The Humble Store also has a handful of Star Wars games on sale, including some classics. Speaking of classics, you ll want to go to GOG.com for your DRM-free old-school Star Wars games. Even the Epic Games Store is getting in on the fun by offering discounts on its Star Wars titles.
Video games are a unique medium, partly because of the way in which they can tell stories. The interactive nature of games makes it possible to convey narrative in a way that other mediums cannot. Narrative-based adventures are an especially wonderful genre in which people can tell different sorts of tales. Those are the games that are celebrated each year with the annual LudoNarraCon weekend. Steam is helping bring awareness to LudoNarraCon this weekend by throwing a special LudoNarraCon Sale, celebrating the very best of narrative-based games. That includes sales on games like Disco Elysium, Spiritfarer, Haven, Neo Cab, and many more.
Excitement for Resident Evil is at a fever pitch following Thursday s latest video presentation. This makes this weekend a good time to start stacking up on the old franchise, along with anything else Capcom-related. Steam is looking to help out with the Capcom Publisher Weekend sale, featuring the best from RE, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, and a lot more.
Elsewhere, Overwatch is still on sale over at Battle.net to celebrate the start of the Overwatch League season, Hitman 3 is still on sale on the Epic Games Store, Assassin s Creed Valhalla is on sale over at the Ubisoft Store, Humble Bundle is offering a special Earth Day bundle, and the best of EA is available across Origin, Fanatical, and Green Man Gaming.
The Lost Vikings 2, a sequel to the side-scrolling platformer included with the collection at launch, and
RPM Racing, an isometric-style truck racer similar to the also-included
Rock N Roll Racing.
The new games were added to the
Blizzard Arcade Collection via free update on Tuesday.
Blizzard Arcade Collection, a compilation of hits from the company’s earliest days (when it was known as Silicon & Synapse, and then Chaos Studios), launched in February on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. The anthology is a celebration of the publisher/studio’s 30th anniversary.
RPM Racing, which launched for Super Nintendo in 1991, was the predecessor to