Justin Leego

...and Bobby Kotick...?

Turns out Gone Home is but one episodic chapter for Neil Gaiman's new thing, Wayward Manor: (Neil Gaiman To Release First Ever Video Game, mashable.com)

I read this as "space (space) battles" Congratulations on altering my grammatical ruleset.

I reckon a number of Thumbs will be interested in this, especially as it's a butt cheap $1.00 (or more, or less) on Indie Game Stand for another 3.75 days: King Arthur's Gold is 16 vs 16 fort building and destroying multiplayer for Mac, Windows and Linux. It's the new one from Michal Marcinkowski, the guy behind Soldat*. Mark this: medieval grenades rolling down medieval ramparts. The current Indie Game Stand 4-day deal is a Pay What You Want (>$0.99 for Steam / GOG / Desura keys when available). It's usually $12.99 for early access, which will rise to $25 when it's done. JOIN US! ...please? *

Same. Also two invites to the Steam Trading Card Beta in case anyone wants in on that.

Ah, right, good good! No offense intended or taken (otherwise we would have had to settle things on the KAGglefields) Having read your reports from the other thread it will be really interesting to see how you react to the alterations. There's that bit in an IndieStatik article which says "This beta version ... sees them throwing away or turning [upside down] every game element they’ve added" so it sounds like there's been a whole load of crazy optimization going on over the last few months.

I feel bad but in all honesty it did not come up in my search results. Happy to migrate over to the older and wiser thread of original knight / builder / archer fun. Hope to get stuck into KAG tonight.

Toys for Bob is the Skylanders studio, right? e: and they created Star Control, of course. And Star Control II. But actually not Star Control III. Huh.

Not much. It can be clunky but then they had a tiny team, so the client isn't nearly as slick as Steam's. That may change as Desura is now owned by Linden Lab. You can always add the game to your Steam library as a non-Steam game, until KAG gets onto Steam and / or GOG that is, or just download and run it without either client. e: they have an agreement with Steam already, as soon as the beta is stable then it's going on (presumably via Early Access, and which would explain why they're not doing Greenlight)

The marketing team did a sterling job of keeping the Haytham stuff on the down low for sure, and credit to them for that. I think the key thing to do is compare it to equivalent publicity material from Assassin's Creed III. The UI still says "hey, you're a guy stuck in the Matrix, here's your Star Trek mission summary" to me, but Ubi may be wary of losing players who would run a mile from a pirate sim. Which is fine. You've got to sell bucket loads if you want a game with that amount of people polishing it. Other stuff about the trailer being the same trailer as last week's except twice as long, the color palette being lovely until you realise it's Michael Bay'd to oblivion, and pressing foward and X to win. My cynicism needs a hug and a sleep :-(

How is this one? There's not all that much out about it.

It's one for all, apart from certain exceptions, such as New Leaf's Dream Suite codes which are a bit special.

Dishonored, inFlux, Assassin's Creed IV: twelve months of gamewhales. Good work Lacabra!

Steam Trading Card thread in the houssssse!

Oh definitely, that's a good example. You can compare the prices of the most popular items with something like items for Night of the Rabbit and see how supply and price interact. You can see the same sort of thing by looking at the lifetime price chart for the Football Manager Summer Sale card, which started at €2.26 (as a mystery card), stabilized at €0.60 - €0.70, then fell to €0.12 by halfway through the sale when they were easily obtainable. (just call me Captain Obvious in future)

but also

Getting t-boned into the sea on that fire truck race was best.

First save-game-related tragedy of my New Leaf times last night! Stuffed the island hamper full of bugs, sharks and butterflies, went to shore and stood outside Re-Tail ready for the morning. Went to save the game before folding it into sleep mode (just in case), pressed power instead of start, lost everything! Calamitous. Lost that island haul as well as an excellent mandarin hat and a rare bug for the museum.

Kotaku: Steam hates money, games

You have done a beautiful thing. But why not €3,004?

I hope that his middle and last names are the same: Nolan Zeus Zeus.

And you know what else? It could have been edited out with a dubstep vocalized "Video ga-aaa-aaames" and a link to the Phaedrus Group. But it wasn't. IT WASN'T.

CAEK!! Ah yes, Steam was up for a bit longer than that because of support for Counter-Strike.

We must increase the view count

Heh. It's not as if we're all checking the store front page every 8 hours or anything anyway.