merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

well, now i feel like a total chump for buying both Frozen Synapse and Space Chem and having played them for like, 3 hours each

they're both pretty awesome, but mannn

Just noticed that Pirate Puzzles is now available for free (for Mac + PC) on Steam. Get it!

Also, I don't think it's on sale, but Binding of Isaac is one of the best games I've played this year. Highly recommended if you like zelda roguelikes w/ twisted aesthetics

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/scary_sale_2011
http://www.gog.com/en/promo/halloween_2011

also http://www.indieroyale.com/

this is your thread reminder to play binding of isaac

it's getting a big halloween update apparently

Bought Amnesia, prenumbra, Gemini rue, LFD2, the remastered Holmes vs Cthulhu, and whatever else. I still need to beat Costume Quest.

i would say that i currently own on multiple platforms, conservatively, 100 games that i would like to play.

Same here (although my list is only 30 or 40 long). Already dreading next year's c+p tbh.

Gonna get the Breath of Death / Cthulu Saves the World for $2. Limbo on Steam is $7.50. Convinced a friend to get the L4D 1+2 pack for $10.19. Borderlands GOTY on sale again for a measly $7.50. Tempted to get the Indie Royale pack just for Gemini Rue (already have Sanctum).

Costume Quest is on sale on Xbox right now- I gather it's worth it?

CQ I enjoyed, yes

I need more Steam friends, and/or folks I can play LFD2 with.

it's L4D2 brah

if you're not playing versus i'd be down

woo! beat VVVVV

^V

whew, finally got the hardest shiny trinket in the game. so hard, but so much fun.

Please tell me it was the Veni Vidi Vici etc. set of rooms, because I still got about 30% of the game to go

yeah, that's the hardest one by far

i finished all of the trinkets today. not sure if i'm going to bother w/ all the time runs and like beating the game w/out dying once...

yeahhh no way i'm gonna do that, the game kicked my ass enough. still, an easy recommendation, and the chiptunes were sooooo good

might also get that Ghostbusters game from last year (not the downloadable game that came out more recently)... $2.50 on Steam, but no multiplayer in the PC version

VVVVVV is so damn great, the 3rd humble indie bundle as a whole was really fine, tho now I'm badly stuck halfway through Braid and that annoys the hell out of me :<

Steam sale had me buy Bioshock, as I still haven't played it yet; kinda considering L4D2 - is it worth it?

L4D2 is absolutely worth it, great game. If you haven't played any L4D, I'd recommend getting the bundle w/1 and 2, though 2 definitely has all the gameplay improvements and some of the maps from part 1. You should try to get at least one friend you know you can play it with, or good tolerance for playing with randoms, as there isn't really any single player besides running through the campaigns with bots as your partners.

The reason I still recommend part 1, despite half the maps being imported into L4D2, is that I think they may have added too many choices to part 2, in terms of the number of special zombie types, items, weapons, and so on - the first one had a more pure arcade simplicity to it. Also I prefer the characters in the first game as well. But the second game definitely has better maps and gameplay modes, generally. I'm not a fan of versus, but that's easily much better in the second game, too.

Who wants a free copy of Sanctum?

i would but i don't think it's on the mac :(

Yeah, sorry, it's not Steamplay compatible yet :(

i would if it's good?
my steam name is my ilx name

Do you like tower defense games? If so, all yours. I haven't had much time to get stuck into it yet, but the first level seemed fun, and it's getting quite positive reviews.

sure! thanks!

Here's the worst Humble Bundle yet: one unfinished game.
http://www.humblebundle.com/

Rumor is that Binding of Isaac and some others will be added to it.

And yet...

if they add binding, i'll buy.

binding halloween update went up. this game is so good.

Binding of Isaac is in the bundle now. And so is Blocks That Matter, whatever that is. To be fair Vocatron also looks like it'll be great fun once it's finished. I've bought them.

all of you go get this. for binding of isaac alone.

sold

ditto

Steaming pile of shit

Hackers gained unauthorized access to user information on the digital videogame distribution service Steam last weekend, the company that runs the service has said.

Information in the database, which was accessed on Sunday, November 6, included “user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information,” according to Valve CEO Gabe Newell

aargh FFS

man, I just changed my stupid cc after the PSN thing.

good thing i kept my Steam forum email/username different from my account info

oh fuck

never had it keep my CC info

doesn't matter, apparently, it was stored anyway

jeeeeeez

why is this shit not on the steam client news page? How come i haven't gotten an email? what the fuck valve?

still, it's good thing that all this data was properly hashed, salted etc. didn't Sony just keep all their passwords in plain text?

yeah, as infuriating as something like this is, it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as what happened with the playstation, where sony kept all passwords and credit card info in plain text.

just googled hashed/salted and somewhat less incensed.