Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

Steam is offering a weekend deal on a squad of Might and Magic titles, offering Heroes of Might and Magic V, Hammers of Fate, Tribes of the East and Dark Messiah Might and Magic for only $5 a pop now through Sunday.

From now until Sunday, four games from Ubisoft can be bought for only $10 through digital gaming platform Steam. The Ubisoft Classic pack includes Beyond Good & Evil, Dark Messiah Might and Magic, Far Cry, and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.

A Portuguese web site is giving out serial codes for getting a free copy of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Details in the link.

At a game design lecture held the morning of the first official day of GDC, Raphael Colantonio, creative director at Arkane Studios, explained many problems faced by designers in the realm of first-person hand-to-hand combat, a challenge it faced head-on in its Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. The team made the choice of going with a middleware engine, specifically Valve's Source engine, which helped define one of the main goals of the project: We didn't want Half Life 2 with a sword instead of the crowbar. The other main challenges, as the team saw things at the start of the project, were working on an aiming system that made sense for close range moving targets, giving a strong sense of damage feedback, and gaging distance. More After The Jump.

The multiplayer beta for Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is now open to the public. All you have to do is grab a key and you don't need to sign up for anything. Only the first 100,000 people will be allowed in, so grab yours quickly!

Friday 1 September 2006 First-person action-RPG Dark Messiah of Might and Magic will be available to download from Valve's Steam service in October at around $50 (or roughly £26) - saving you at least a tenner on the price of a shop-bought copy of the game. "I just can't wait to play it," says Valve honcho Gabe Newell. Neither can we, Gabe, neither can we. To tempt non-Steamers into an offline purchase, though, publisher Ubisoft will release a limited edition of Dark Messiah of Might and

Many valid comparisons have been made between the upcoming first-person fantasy action title Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and the cross-platform epic Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. But today's treasure trove of media steers our view of Dark Messiah sharply away from the sofa-bound console-compatible games like Oblivion and squarely onto our high-resolution PC monitors. While these new images (the rest are behind the Images tab) reveal that Dark Messiah is being made with only one platform in

The first-person RPG Dark Messiah of Might and Magic will have you scrapping across beaches, through underground caverns and trading blows on high battlements in its exciting online matches - and you can give yourself a taste of the conflict with these new screens showing off some great new levels for multiplayer mash-ups. Just hit the image tab to see them all. To find out more about Dark Messiah's multiplayer, read our hands-on preview straight from the frontlines. Ubisoft will unleash the

With equal parts might and magic, the newly-conjured gameplay trailer for the upcoming Dark Messiah of Might and Magic demonstrates a whole host of dilemmas. Do you slice that Orc's hideous head off with an expertly timed sword strike, or pound him into submission with giant fireballs? Take him out with your twin daggers, ninja-style, or crush him underfoot after shrinking him down to cockroach size? Watch him stumble off a cliff after a skull-crushing blast to the noggin, or impale him onto

Friday 7 July 2006 Dark Messiah of Might & Magic gives you a huge choice when it comes to offing your enemies: do you use big pointy sticks, iced flagstones or hot, hot fingertip-fire? We've conjured up some new footage to show you the sort of magical mayhem on offer to aspiring mages, so click the movie tab and take a peek. There're plenty of spells on show here to ignite your interest - see lightning bolts, guided fireballs and the brilliant shrink-o-spell in action. Make sure you pay