2k Games and Bethesda Softworks have announced in a press release that they will be uniting what some may say are two of the best games to be released in this console generation, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Bioshock, in a retail bundle set to cost about $40. Both games have received numerous awards and huge amounts of praise from critics and gamers alike.

I would say that this deal is just about as good and as Valve’s 5-games-in one-mega-value-pack, The Orange Box, although you can grab that now for about $20. So just think, for $60 you can own 7 of the greatest games ever!

The bundle will be in stores on July 7th, 2009.

Instructables.com user, alexander.m, shows you in this detailed walk-through how to make the infamous Team Fortress 2 sandvich. If you’re feeling left in the dark, you must meet the sandvich:
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I suppose that word of the day is “Money”, so let’s talk about another company’s supposed greed.

It’s been a rough week for what I feel is one of the best developers in video games, Valve. Following the debut of the bloody-great trailer for their newly announced Left 4 Dead 2, the gamer community has been less than thrilled with the company. Valve, a developer long-thought of as a consumer-minded entity amongst money-hungry crap-peddlers is being accused of giving gamers the shaft.

Their crime? Ripping gamers off by over charging for content.

Left 4 Dead was released on November 18, 2008 with a $60 price tag (the norm for games nowadays) and some truly positive reviews. The game is one of the coolest, fastest, and all-around fun multiplayer experiences there is. Despite all of these positives, a slew of gamers openly expressed that the game is not worth the dough.

Now I don’t completely agree with this statement, but they do indeed have a point. The game has four shipped maps and two modes of play. Fight the zombies or fight the humans. Is this worth $60 to you? Not to me. Lucky for us, I believe that Valve understands this, and that’s why the price dropped to $40 at most places (a price that I think is perfect) and the “Survival” expansion wound up being completely free, and how often do you see that in this day and age of DLC? (Valve isn’t like Capcom, who charged $5 for Resident Evil 5 Versus mode and Street Fighter 4 costumes already on the disc. I still laugh when ever I read this Consumerist Article). I think everyone felt pretty good about that.

Then came Microsoft’s pre-E3 conference where we saw this trailer…
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