Dungeon Defender, Diablo III health system overhauled, Caprica season 2 starting early

Dungeon Defenders

Trendy Entertainment just announced their Co-op Tower defense/Dungeon Crawler/RPG hybrid game Dungeon crawler will be simultaneously released for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and PC via Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive, and GamersGate. I played the demo for this, and it really was clever.

And its price tag is 9.99



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Diablo III Health System Overhauled, Less Emphasis On Potions
Sep 10, 2010 at 2:34 PM - OhmWrecker - 22 Comments
According to an update at the official Diablo 3 homepage, Blizzard has made some pretty significant changes to the health system of the game. While adventurers can still buy health potions, the meat and potatoes of regenerating health will be based around a new health globe system.

Potions and skills offer excellent boosts to your health, but to survive multiple battles, you'll need to use them alongside a more reliable, renewable means of recovery.

That's where health globes -- floating, crimson spheres that rise from the corpses of your defeated foes -- come in. These globes are the core means of regenerating your health in Diablo III, and all other methods of healing support them. When you pick up a health globe, your health (and the health of any allies in your party) is restored by a fixed percentage depending on the type of globe you've grabbed.

Potions will now have a cooldown timer attached to them according to the update, thus eliminating the potion click fest minigame seen in previous Diablo games.

Caprica

Syfy just announced that it's moving the premiere of season 1.5 of Caprica to Oct. 5 at 10 p.m. instead of the originally planned return in January 2011. This is good news for fans who were left hanging with the midseason finale cliffhanger back in March and were disappointed that the show would take so long to return.

The move will put Caprica on Tuesday nights following Stargate Universe and push back the premiere of the new season of Sanctuary to Friday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. Sanctuary will air on Fridays instead of Tuesdays as part of the shift.