Steam is running another great deal, especially for fans of Psychonauts, which is now 80% off on Steam and retails for just $2. $2! Get a copy while you can.

Indulge yourself for over 7 minutes of wonderful Bad Company 2 gameplay footage.

It was recently announced that Spore Creatures has just been released to the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that Spore an extremely hyped game that essentially lets players craft their own universe.

Well, this new game expands on that idea but lets you do it on the iPhone and iPod touch with your fingers. There isn’t much more to say about its gameplay because its the same deal: create a creature, adventure with said creature, rinse and repeat.

You can get Spore Creatures now for $6.99.

via joystiq

The last major petition we heard of that was targeted at Valve was the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott. It’s been some time since that petition died down but now another one has emerged, this one a bit less hostile — It’s been over 5 years since Valve released Counter-Strike: Source and we have yet to see a continuation of the series yet, which is what the above mentioned petition focuses on.

This Counter-Strike 2 petition group has already amassed over 25,000 people hoping to get Valve’s attention. Below is their mission statement:

“We want to bolster interest in CS so more people play it, and if we want to regain mainstream attention in the game it needs to be re released as Counterstrike 2. Even if it was just re released with some fixes/patches, additional official maps, a graphical upgrade and a new shiny box …Counterstrike would then survive as a franchise and become popular once again.”

I don’t know about you guys but Counter-Strike was one of the games that really got me hooked on first person shooters. I, for one, fully support the petition.

via destructoid

In September of last year Capcom unveiled the latest addition to the Street Fighter franchise; Super Street Fighter IV. At the time of the announcement the only release window we were told was Spring of 2010. Now, Capcom has finally come forth to let us know that the game will be made available for all on April 27th.

Additionally, Capcom also slipped in the news that Lost Planet 2 will be dropping on May 18th.

Which will you guys be picking up?

Ubisoft has revealed the PC requirements for Assassin’s Creed 2, which will be released on March 16, for $60 instead of the regular $50 — shame on you, Ubisoft!

Minimum Configuration:
* SUPPORTED OS: Windows XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits)/Windows 7 (32-64 bits)
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ RAM: 1.5 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista – Windows 7
* Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
* Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
* Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller

Recommended Configuration:
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
* Video Card: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
* Sound: 5.1 sound card
* Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)
* Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI RADEON X1950, HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series NVIDIA GeForce 7/8/9/100/200 series

Developer Introversion has announced that the popular RTS Darwinia+ (“+” meaning that the game includes both Darwinia and Multiwinia (the multiplayer portion of the game)), will be available on Xbox Live on February 10, and will cost $15.

According to Interplay, the company recently announced a deal with Masthead Studios, which will license technology to Interplay for the Fallout MMO, which should, according to plans, have beta testing in 2012. Well, no matter what the deal with the game is, at least they’re planing ahead. Quite a lot ahead.

Mass Effect 2 has just hit the stores and it appears there’s a lot of interest from Hollywood to turn it into a movie — pretty much the same deal every successful game sees. However, BioWare isn’t that hopeful, as BioWare’s Casey Hundson puts it,

“Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture about Mass Effect. The most important thing for us is, we don’t just want to see a movie get made … we want to see a great movie get made, if it’s going to get done at all.”

Meaning that we’ll probably never see a Mass Effect film, the same way we’ll never see a Half Life film. And that’s the way it should be.

For those who think that boxed games are a thing of the past, you’ll be delighted to know that Battlefield Bad Company 2 will be available on Steam, and the game is now up for pre-order as well. If you pre-order the game, you get six pieces of unlocks you otherwise had to play to get. They include better armor for your vehicles, secondary fire, a magnetic dart gun and a few more. Check out the Steam page here.