merry xmas (GOG/Steam direct download weekly specials)

i even own the board game

I started with the old Avalon Hill game before the computer ones existed. Good times. Took a whole damn weekend to play if you had six or seven people.

who are you kidding man, just get it

okay i got it. i need new advice. tropico 4 is $6 atm. the only thing stopping me from getting it is that it's pc only. however acc to: http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/news/377/ it's going mac on july 25th --> which means maybe i should buy it now on steam for $6 so i can get the mac version at that price for free when it eventually (maybe) shows up on steam for mac???

You can do that?

Tropico 4 is good but it's more like Tropico 3B than a new deal.

Nah, because Tropico goes on sale all the time. You can wait until the Mac port gets released and goes Steamplay, if it does. Feral's kind of inconsistent about this too, understandably as Steamplay takes away sales of pure Mac versions at the higher markup. but eventually their ports seem to make it over after a while (see Civ 4, Borderlands 2, XCOM finally a couple weeks ago). I would just wait until the next holiday sale, hopefully it will be Steamplay by then.

thanks - that seems like good advice

As far as Civ 5 is concerned, I've heard that the new DLC "Brave New World" is very good.

Is it bad that I'm tempted to get that Star Trek game because of that hilarious "we broke" video?

Also tempted to get in on the hype for Monaco or Trials Evolution, though I'm guessing Trials will be more fun on console. Maybe an Awesomenauts gift to push myself into playing it...

Alll of the advance word I've heard about the Star Trek game is basically "gives terrible a bad name".

Yeah, I've already done enough damage on this sale, to be real

Gunpoint is fun and clever! Get it!

Just looked at the cheevos for Gunpoint. Some of them are pretty good:

Acknowledged Ludonarrative Dissonance
-Notice the story doesn't necessarily gel with the mechanics. Become qualified games journalist.

Title Finally Relevant
-Help justify my early, not entirely wise choice of game name by holding someone at gunpoint with the Resolver.

Might As Well Have An Achievement For That Too
-Use the Gatecrashers to kick a door through a window.

I Am Better At This Than Tom Francis
-Complete a mission faster than I can.

LOL, nice

Gunpoint reminds me of a cross between these two games

http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/contact_sam_cruise/images/play_area/displaced_dude.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/C64_Impossible_Mission.png

Kentucky Route Zero is half-price

shadowrun returns comes out tmmrw

xp Anyone here actually played it? Looks cool, but I'm leery of buying these episodic games before they finish; the game's at two episodes of five. That said, that's a good price. You can always get it directly from the dev w/Steam key: http://kentuckyroutezero.com/

eh i gave in to weakness. gotta support the indies *shrug*

I've played it. I got in on the ground level at full price and feel a little hard done by in terms of content/buck but it's an engaging 'game' - I almost feel like it's a minimal as a game can be while still being a game though. Kinda wish I'd waited til they were done with all the episodes, as I can see myself forgetting about it by episode 5, but if I'd waited I'd probably have forgotten all about it by the time even 2 episodes were out. As long as they don't pull a 'it was a dream/they were dead all along' at the end...

I'm still not sure if it's lazier to just shout out for an email here, but I'll give this a try. Free Super Hexagon to anyone in our Steam group:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/2vo1j/super-hexagon/signature.png

and brilliam is the lucky winner! well, lucky in the sense that he was the only entrant. but still! enjoy!

All right, thanks!

Not sure how it works exactly: you "donate" a game to the group, and people enter a draw to have it?

yeah, the site automatically picks a winner at random, the gift still has to be sent/acknowledged manually though

nice feature of that site is that you can restrict the drawing to one of your Steam groups. I set this one up so that only members of the ILG group could join, in this case. Otherwise, typically there are hundreds to thousands of entries for the open giveaways

New Humble Bundle average is $5 for Dead Island GOTY, Saint's Row II, Saint's Row III GOTY, Risen 2 and Sacred 2 Gold.

Worth it. https://www.humblebundle.com

Ha, the Humble EA Bundle finally happened!

100% to charity, so I said what the hell. (I didn't have any of the games on PC either)

Just FYI if you don't fuck with origin (i don't)

Humble Origin Bundle games available on Steam:
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Dead Space 1
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Mirror's Edge
Medal of Honor

wow, don't own any of those on Steam either

no reason to beat the average on this one

100% goes to charity though

you can do that with all of the humble bundles (and i do)

if you BTA now you'll get whatever bonuses they offer later

Rumor has it these will be the bonuses:

Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising
Bulletstorm
Dead Space 2
Medal of Honor Airborne

Huge success

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/22/humble-origin-raising-millions-adds-two-more-games/#more-165826

boo where's my dead space 2 and bulletstorm? i guess they COULD add a third set of games within the next week but i doubt it

I betcha they will.

the wargame franchise is on sale atm on steam and, i've just noticed, available on the mac
can anyone recommend it? tom chick says yes? http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/06/03/airland-battle-lets-the-lions-out/

new Humble Bundle http://www.humblebundle.com/
Trine 2:Complete Story
Mark of the Ninja
Eets Munchies
Brutal Legend
beat average to get FTL & Fez!

great bundle. never buy indie games!

(i'll grab this in case i ever want to play Fez on Mac)

fez is on mac now??

That one rules, dang

Yup, Mark of the Ninja and and Fez making their Mac/Linux debuts in this, I think. (Another reason I love Humble Bundles!)

did i just not notice before or did metro also JUST debut on Mac???

Don't trust the Steam launcher, weird stuff pops all the time under Mac games that shouldn't.

i know they've been talking about bringing it over tho, so it wouldn't be completely unexpected

um, steam's not accepting the codes on my pc?

people have been having that bug, restart Steam and it should be OK

yeah, i had the same problem. restarted worked it out.