Game of the Day - Tradewinds Caravans

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a 99 cent download of Tradewinds Caravans, another in the Tradewinds series they have been featuring this week.

Game Description

• Build A Powerful Trading Caravan.
• 6 Unique Characters.
• Dozens Of Individual Storylines.
• All-new Weapons And Character-Specific Powers.

Travel along the bustling and dangerous Silk Road trading exotic goods and engaging in real-time battles as you build the most powerful trading caravan the world has ever seen! Embark on challenging quests, hire fiercely loyal warriors and explore a long-lost world teeming with tantalizing secrets, hidden cities and legends of mythical creatures. With all-new weapons, character-specific powers and signature Tradewinds humor, your adventure begins today - in Tradewinds Caravans!

Game Deal of the Day - Active Life: Extreme Challenge Bundle with Mat

Amazon's Video Game Deal of the Day is Active Life: Extreme Challenge Bundle with Mat, for the Wii, for $38.99. That's a dollar cheaper than the same game without the mat. I have the previous version of the game, Active Life Outdoor Challenge, and it provides a pretty good workout, plus lets two play at once on some of the games (which you really can't do with the balance board games).

Game Description

• More to Play-15 activities plus multi-player and time trial
• All New Activities-Include street luge/in-line skating, kite surfing, base jumping,acrobatic double dutch, BMX biking, skateboarding and rock climbing
• Unique & Stylish Cel-Shaded Art Design-Detailed environments and cool character designs
• Mii Integration-Includes the option to use Mii characters
• Fun for Everyone-Single and multi-player games to challenge you, your family and friends

Test your skills at 15 intense activities in Active Life: Extreme Challenge. Whether you're scaling the cliffs of the Grand Canyon or swooshing down the hills of San Francisco in a street luge, you'll enjoy the thrill of performing actions that make it feel as though you're really participating in an extreme activity. Explore amazingly detailed environments as you skate, surf, bike and more, and amp up the excitement by competing with friends and family in multiplayer gameplay.

Active Life: Extreme Challenge kicks Active Life into high gear, featuring ‘extreme’ themed sports such as base jumping, street luge, and rock climbing. Whether you want to swoosh down the hills of San Francisco in a street luge, scale the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, or kite-surf in the crystal blue waters of the Pacific, this game will get your heart pumping!

Game Download of the Day - Tradewinds Legends

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a 99 cent download of Tradewinds Legends, in case you missed it when it was free a couple of weeks ago directly from Sandlot Games or just prefer to get your games from Amazon and let them do your backups.

Game Description

• Trade And Battle With Legendary Heroes.
• Choose A Character Or Create Your Own
• Hundreds Of Special Items
• 10 Amazing Ports To Visit

Get carried away in this latest installment in the acclaimed Tradewinds Series. Sail, trade and battle with legendary heroes such as Sinbad in the mythical Far East. Enter a world of danger and intrigue as you complete over 100 unique tasks. Build a flotilla of ships armed with weaponry, both man-made and magic. Sail into the sky to discover new ports and engage in aerial combat with other magical sky ships. Encounter a world of legend, play Tradewinds Legends today!

New Games under $5

Several of the new game downloads at Amazon are marked down under $5 today, including one that normally sells for $20.

Vegas Make it Big ($19.99 $4.99)

Game Description

• Fulfill The Needs Of 5000+ Individual Guests.
• 10 Resort Styles, Inspired By Amazing Cultures And Themes
• Fully Customizable- Adjust Goals, Competition, And Difficulty
• 500+ Vehicles.

Customers on the living, breathing Las Vegas boulevard are notoriously hard to satisfy. Can you win the hearts and wallets of Vegas? Amazing real-time 3D graphics show off your resort to the max. Experience grand panoramic views, or get up close and personal to fine-tune the inside and outside of your perfect Vegas paradise.

Alpha Prime ($9.99 $4.99)

Game Description

• 10 Levels Of Fast-paced, Unrelenting Action.
• 8 Futuristic Weapons.
• Bullet Time Allows Players To Temporarily Slow Down The Action.
• Vehicles Can Be Used To Move To Different Locations Quickly.

Somewhere deep in space, on the lifeless asteroid Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong... The miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong. Now, something has happened to them and it's up to you to save them and face an unknown threat. Armed with an assortment of hi-tech weapons and the ability to hack into the station's own automated defenses, your mission is simple: Get in, Get 'em and Get out!

Al Emmo and The Lost Dutchman's Mine ($9.99 $4.95)

Game Description

• Over 7000 Lines Of Unique And Humorous Commentary.
• 15 To 20 Hours Of Gameplay.
• Easy To Use, Point-And-Click Adventure.
• Lip-Synched Voiceover And Narration.

Al Emmo is a witty western game with a healthy dose of adventure, that follows in the tradition of classic adventure gaming. Join Al, a middle-aged feeble Easterner on his journey into the heart of Wild-West in search of a suitable bride. Enjoy the quaint gold-rush town of Anozira; chat up highly flirtatious babes; cautiously evade warring Indian tribes; discover legends of lost gold; bask in the intense summer heat; encounter breathtaking landscapes; meet up with the occasional rabid prairie dog, and more!

Chains ($7.99 $4.99)

Game Description

• 20 Levels Each Focusing on Action, Strategy Or Flow.
• Physics-driven Gameplay.
• 3 Difficulty Modes.
• Unique Art Direction With Beautiful Vector Graphics.

Chains is a challenging puzzle game with a unique feel and distinctive vector graphics style. The object of the game is simple - to link adjacent bubbles of the same color into chains. As you progress through the physics-driven stages it becomes increasingly more challenging and players' speed, strategy and skill will be put to the test.

Vigil: Blood Bitterness ($5.99 $4.99)

Game Description

• Easy Point-And-Click Playability.
• Engrossing Story With Deeply Disturbed Complex Characters.
• 3D Graphics with Revolutionary Black And White Art.
• Challenging Puzzles To Solve.

Thrown into chaos, Vigil plunges you into the dark and disturbing story of an ancient civilization where you must reveal the secrets of your past and exact revenge on the Evil destroying your universe. Ritualistic killings and blood lust blur the line between your own kind and the Evil you seek to annihilate. Your ultimate goal is to free yourself from this tormenting place and understand the origin and the purpose of this never ending Evil.

Port Royale 2 ($4.99)

Game Description

• Huge Game World With 4 Nations And 60 Towns.
• 8 Special Scenarios For A Quick And Easy Start.
• 16 Different Ship-Types.
• Open Ended Game With Endless Detail And Game Depth.

The Caribbean in the 17th Century - You will trade with over 60 towns and create your own production facilities. Escort ships for your convoys are needed, or you can turn the tides and hunt for pirates or capture the military ships. You can also take on missions for merchants, diplomats and other characters.

Free Book (Smashwords) - Just Past Oysterville

Just Past Oysterville, by Perry P. Perkins, the first book in his Christian Fiction Shoalwater series, is free on Smashwords using coupon code SW22F. Originally offered as a 24 hour experiment, the coupon has been extended, but could end at any time.

Book Description
A child abandoned. A life destroyed. Two hearts, unable to forgive... After a drunk driver leaves young Cassie Belanger an orphan, a cryptic letter, found among her mother's belongings sends her on a desperate journey in hopes of finding the man who fathered her but chose not to be her father.