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You can’t really miss out on this. The Steam sale may have begun last night, but Warner’s gone into bargain mode, releasing a bundle that includes both Batman Arkham games – Asylum and City with all of its DLC – plus Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Bastion, all three FEAR games and expansions, LEGO Batman and Harry Potter Years 1-4 and Watchmen: The End is Nigh. If you want to look at it another way, you’re paying £40 for Arkham City and getting everything else free. Sound good? Go get it here.

Thanks, RPS.

Microsoft’s kicked off its 12 Days of Xbox promo for XBL leading into the New Year. The effort, which begins today and ends on January 2, will have a list of offers that’ll last thew duration of the promo and a special deal that changes every day; it’s Bastion today. The Supergiant-made, Warner-published RPG is reduced to 600 MS points from 1200 MS points. Get it here.

The rest of the deal can be found on Major Nelson‘s blog.

Gleefully return to Supergiant’s indie darling this week thanks to its first piece of DLC.

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Crazy, man. Warner’s introduced a Chrome-supportable version of Supergiant RPG darling Bastion, consisting of a full version of the game as well as a demo for those who are decide if they’d like to buy it. Crazy bonkers this has happened, but there we go: it’s nearly 2012, after all. Get it from the Chrome Marketplace here.

Steam’s reduced the price of RPG-lite Bastion on PC for today. The Supergiant title is currently down from £11.49/$14.99 to £5.74/$7.49. You can get it here. Bastion launched this past July on XBLA first as part of Summer of Arcade, before moving onto PC in August.

Supergiant staffers gambled everything when they left jobs with major publishers to developer Bastion.

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OnLive has announced it is to bring six additional indie titles to the service this fall: Orcs Must Die, Limbo, Magicka, Bastion, Space Chem, and Avadon: The Black Fortress. According to the press release, via Joystiq: “OnLive has long been a supporter of independent publishers. Simply put, they’re making some really great, innovative games these days.” The service’s library already includes: Braid, Trine, World of Goo and The Maw.

Creative director Greg Kasavin has said Bastion was built with the goal of enriching gameplay experience by providing consequential choices.

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Convention season has taken its toll. With TGS looming, we’ve lost Pat. He is, as you all know, dead. Or without Internet. We, however, must soldier on. Here’s the week’s biggest stories and what they all mean.

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Bastion developer Supergiant isn’t planning on releasing DLC for the action RPG, because it put in everything it planned for right from the start.

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It’s time for your last batch of shorts for the weekend, which we are officially dubbing the malaise edition. Read onward.

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QuakeCon’s passed, and Gamescom lies ahead. You’re in the eye of the news storm. Frightened? Don’t be. The Weekly Wrap is here to tell you what it all means. And give you a hug. If you want one.

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Warner Bros. Australia has confirmed Bastion’s local PC release date of August 17, one day behind other territories – although that’s probably a time zone thing, really, since we live in the future.

The critically-acclaimed action RPG (read: dungeon crawler) will go for $14.99, and kick off on Steam before hitting other local PS portal storefronts.

The PC version of the game has an overhauled control scheme but also supports control pads. It’s also available on Xbox Live Arcade.

Warner’s announced that it’s to release Bastion on PC on August 16. The Supergiant action RPG had previously launched last month as part of Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade. The game’s currently up for pre-order on Steam for £14.99, and will have Steamworks support, an all new control scheme and gamepad control. It’ll be up on other PC portals later this month.

This was supposed to be a quiet week. I’m going to spend the weekend sobbing quietly in a wardrobe wishing games didn’t exist. These nibbles are all I can manage before I go.

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As RPG Bastion prepares to kick off Xbox Live’s Summer of Arcade today, Johnny Cullen speaks to Supergiant’s Amir Kao and Greg Kasavin about its release, working with Warner and more.

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Bastion creative director Greg Kasavin has confirmed the game will be released on PC before the end of the year, but there are currently no plans to release the action-RPG on PSN.

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Bastion reviews have started hitting the net, and it looks as though the majority find it a charming Xbox Live title from Supergiant Games.

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Supergiant Games has said it picked Warner Bros. Interactive as Bastion’s publisher because it had “bought into” what the developer had wanted to do with the game.

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So much has happened in the last 24 hours that we can’t possibly give it all the limelight it deserves. Come on through and check out today’s surprisingly meaty shorts. You’ll be sorry if you don’t – I have something for everybody.

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