merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

xp i scoff at a mere 40% discount. hmmf hmmf!

awesomenauts is a lot of fun. it's like sidescrolling LOL

free skin for that here: http://www.awesomenauts.com/yogscast/
gotta get around to trying the game. new Humble Bundle once again making me retroactively glad I didn't buy a bunch of these games in various sales

Anybody want a copy of Dear Esther? Just email me and I'll send a Steam code.

this latest humble bundle is amazing. they added a few more things too.

all i've done though is sink about an hour into burning things in my little inferno fireplace.

it's the best

Now me & my three kids have "won" Little Inferno. It's interesting how different our experiences of it have been.

i have an extra oil rush key is anyone is interested

witcher 2 for ~$7 on steam. worth getting?

Not really. It's a nice looking game but not very fun.

waiting for <$5

also, having a computer that can run it, now that i think about it

turn ur pc into a space heater for $7

it's an iMac, so it already looks like one

new humble bundle but i don't recognize any of the games

anomaly: warzone earth looks like one of those games i've gotten or seen bundled several times but haven't played it yet

anomaly is pretty good but only one of those games is steam enabled....

I thought Witcher 2 is cool.

Also, Kerbal Space Program is like fifteen bucks this weekend, y'all should check it out if you haven't yet

lol i'm sure it won't last long but i'm currently in the top 1000 on the awesomenauts leaderboards (#963)

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Scurvy Scalliwags is so great

Torchlight is free on GOG
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/torchlight

also basically all the classic d&d games for 20 bucks
http://www.gog.com/promo/definitive_dungeons_and_dragons

Torchlight is free on GOG

Is it free or is it $7.50?

it was free a minute ago!

and free again now. weird

That was weird, now it's free for me too.

i feel like i should buy stuff from them sometimes just because i like 'em, for doing bizarre stuff like porting the two Guilty Gear games to Mac OS X

The new Indie Gala bundle includes all of the main DROD games. I highly recommend them.

http://www.indiegala.com

Steam summer sale is on, nothing too exciting up yet

some good sales this past week. got xcom + DLC for $12, AC2 for $5

Sorry if this has been posted already, but this is a pretty comprehensive list of sales:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/

Where'd you get xcom for $12?

greenmangaming

same here

btw Day 1 recs

obviously Hotline Miami for $2.50 is a steal, i'll grab the soundtrack

anyone with thoughts on Antichamber, Don't Starve or CS:GO?

Waiting for Anno 2070

xcom on steam for $20 atm. i'll probably grab it.

nah, wait it for to hit a flash/daily

dudes I am so backlogged

Don't buy games you won't play immediately. They'll be cheaper the next sale in a few months.

lol can't even get onto it right now. fuck that.

http://www.cheapshark.com/

i think i won't buy individual games i won't play, i'm gonna wait for bundles and not play those instead

anyone with thoughts on Antichamber, Don't Starve or CS:GO?

Antichamber: do not miss this game. Absolute sleeper and going to be on my C&P 2013 list, fairly high. Fantastic FP Puzzler.

Don't Starve: yet ot play but a lot of peopel at work are excited about it. Might pick up

CS:GO: Meh

I have probably asked this before BUT

aside from the promised steam box, is there right now a good way to play pc games on an hdtv? would love to play strategy games, tbh civ 5, without sitting in front of a pc. I don't currently have a pc to experiment with this but if it were easy, pcs are so cheap, & then I would just fuck off the next gen consoles (as I'm gonna do anyway)

should also try playing ipad games on my hdtv but maybe that would just feel weird, looking at the screen to move but seeing the motion also on the tv, dunno

I've been playing a lot on my mid-spec laptop hooked up to my HTDV via HDMI and it's been great - super-easy to set up and games generally look way better than they do on my 360 or PS3. The Big Picture mode in Steam is a really good-looking way to sift through your library on an HDTV, too.

so it's no biggie? do you need a really souped up video card to drive the hdtv? does it matter how big the hdtv is?

A 720p TV is 1280x720, so a mid-range video card should work fine.

It's no biggie for me! My video card is a GeForce 650M IIRC, which was maybe higher-middle-of-the-road when I bought my laptop, and it can handle everything I want to play at reasonable frame rates at most resolutions. All I had to do when I plugged the laptop into my TV for the first time was a bit of fiddling with bundled video card software to ensure the borders of the picture were correct.

Don't think it would matter how big the TV is, unless you're sitting 40 feet away from an 18-inch TV or three feet from a 56-inch TV...