The latest Humble Weekly Bundle features a handful of games built by the wickedly delightful gang at Cartoon Network's Adult Swim web site. Paying $1 or more will score you Fist Puncher, Soundodger+, and Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe on Steam.
The latest Humble Weekly Bundle features a handful of games built by the wickedly delightful gang at Cartoon Network's Adult Swim web site. Paying $1 or more will score you Fist Puncher, Soundodger+, and Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe on Steam.
The folks behind the popular YouTube show Extra Credits have teamed up with the Humble Bundle to create the Humbly Weekly Bundle: Extra Credits.
Pay $1 or more to get indie hits Enemy Mind, One Finger Death Punch and Two Brothers. Beat the average price to score Master Reboot and Stick it to The Man! If you pay $15 or more, you'll get everything plus Ether One Deluxe Edition and Early Access to Hand of Fate.
The American Red Cross and Child's Play are the charities of note this week. Find out more at www.humblebundle.com/weekly.
The Humble Jumbo Bundle 2 offers three games for whatever you want and seven if you are willing to pay more than $15 bucks. Paying more than $1 will get you The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - Complete Pack from Neocore Games, Deadlight from Tequila Works, and Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition from Stardock.
Paying more than the average price will get you Terraria, THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII Steam Edition, and Crusader Kings II (with 3 DLC Unit Packs).
According to research firm DFC Intelligence, 92 percent of all PC game sales across the world were digital in 2013. Speaking to PCR , the firm also said that it expects this number to increase in the years to come. DFC said earlier this year that the PC games market had surpassed the console gaming sector in terms of total revenues.
What are the most pirated games state-by-state? According to data collected by Movoto (as detailed by GamesBeat), the most popular game to download illegally from filesharing sites in the United States is Ubisoft's Watch Dogs. By state, Watch Dogs was downloaded the most in Washington, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and a host of other states. It is by far the most pirated game in many regions in the country.
Depression Quest, an interactive fiction game about dealing with the peaks and valleys of depression, has finally made its way to Steam this week. Available for free, Depression Quest is the creation of Zoe Quinn. The game was originally released on February 14 of last year, but had to wait until January of this year to get the "greenlight" from Steam.
Gamasutra is reporting (based on this AP report) that the government of Thailand has banned Tropico 5 in the country. Why, you may ask, would they do that? According to the report, the government is worried that people will play the game and be compelled to rebel against the rule of law there.
The Humble Square Enix Bundle has added five additional games into its already massive offering, for a total of twenty games for anyone willing to pay $15 or more.
The bundle offers Thief Gold, Mini Ninjas, Daikatana, Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Anachronox for $1 or more.
If you pay more than the average price (currently hovering near $9), you'll also get The Last Remnant, Just Cause, Hitman: Blood Money, Hitman: Contracts, Hitman: Absolution, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Deus Ex: The Fall, Nosgoth Veteran Pack, and Battlestations: Midway.
The latest Humble Bundle offers 14 Square Enix Games for as little as $15. The freshly launched Humble Square Enix Bundle offers Thief Gold, Mini Ninjas, Daikatana, Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Anachronox for a $1 or more.
If you pay more than the average price, you'll also get Deus Ex: Invisible War, Deus Ex: The Fall, Hitman: Absolution, Battlestations Midway and the Nosgoth Veteran Pack.
The PC Gaming Alliance has formally and officially changed its name to the "Open Gaming Alliance" (or OGA, for short). The group said that it changed its name in recognition of the changing dominance of platforms within the digital gaming market. The organization describes itself as "an open forum where companies can cooperate to develop and promote solutions that drive the PC gaming industry forward."
To celebrate the launch of QuakeCon this week, Zenimax and Bethesda are offering sales of its most popular games on Steam and Xbox Live.
Headlining the Steam sale is the QuakeCon 2014 Pack, which includes a number of games for $99.99. Those games include Dishonored: Game of the Year, Fallout: Classic Collection, Doom 3: BFG Edition, Doom Classic Complete, Wolfenstein: The New Order, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition, and The Elder Scrolls Online: Imperial Edition.
This week's Humble Weekly Bundle is Humble Bundle Simulators 2, which offers a handful of simulation games for whatever you want DRM-free and in support of charity.
Pay what you want to get for Universe Sandbox, Cook, Serve, Delicious! and Out of the Park Baseball 14. Pay $6 or more to also get Turbo Dismount and Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition.
If you are willing to cough up $10 or more, you can get everything already mentioned plus Euro Truck Simulator 2 along with the brand new Fantasy Paint Jobs Pack available exclusively through this bundle.
If you love X-Com, then you'll be interested to know that four X-Com games have been added to the Humble Bundle's latest bundle - the Humble 2K Bundle.
Pay $1 or whatever you want for BioShock, The Darkness II and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
If you pay more than the average price (currently at $8.05), you can get your hands on BioShock 2, Mafia II, Spec Ops: The Line, and the X-COM: Complete Pack (X-COM: UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, Apocalypse, Interceptor, and Enforcer).
This week's Humble Weekly Bundle is chosen by Gamepedia and features ten games for a low, low price - to benefit charities IndieCade Foundation and First Book. Pay what want over a $1 to get Windforge, Stacking, ReignMaker and early access to Paranautical Activity. As an added bonus you will also be provided with Tower of Elements, the game that inspired ReignMaker, and a closed beta key for Strife.
Sales of the PC and Mac versions of Minecraft have surpassed 16 million copies, according to developer Mojang's official site for the game. The impressive number is up from up from the 15 million copies the company revealed in April and the 14 million copies it announced in February.
Minecraft Pocket Edition sales surpassed 21 million units in April, while 12 million copies of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition had been sold as of February, according to Mojang's internal sales figures.
Real-money in gaming technology company Gamblit Gaming has announced partnerships with Shanda Games International Europe, Gamiker and Flexball. All three companies will eventually utilize Gamblit Gaming’s mobile platform technology to let companies to add real money gaming mechanics to any mobile or PC game.
UK-based Dovetail Games announced that it has signed a global licensing deal with Microsoft to develop and publish all-new games based on Microsoft’s popular flight simulation technology. The company said in a press release today that it is currently investigating new concepts in this area and is expecting to bring a release to market in 2015.
Dovetail Games also announced that it acquired the rights to distribute Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition via Steam. The new release on Steam will be sold under the name, Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition.
Humble Bundle's latest bundle may just be the biggest offering yet. Today it announced the Humble 2K Bundle, offering a bunch of 2K Games' latest and greatest games.
Pay $1 or whatever you want for BioShock, The Darkness II and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
If you pay more than the average price (currently at $5.60), you can get your hands on BioShock 2, Mafia II and Spec Ops: The Line.
The Command & Conquer community has launched a server to keep multiplayer going in a number of C&C games that had been abandoned by GameSpy Technologies, who once provided multiplayer services for the popular PC real-time strategy games. According to this Eurogamer report, users interested in playing online can visit C&C: Online, register with Revora and install a launcher which emulates GameSpy servers.
Steam has broken the 8 million concurrent users milestone for the first time in its history - thanks mostly to its popular summer sale. On Sunday evening over 8 million gamers were using the service at the same time as the Steam Summer Sale began to wind down.
The last milestone for concurrent users on Steam - according to its stats page was around 7.5 million, which occurred over Christmas 2013. The new record high of 8,020,834 was recorded at 16:03 PDT on Sunday June 29.
The Steam Summer Sale ends at 10am PDT today.
GII is reporting this morning that UK-based developer Rebellion has revoked thousands of Sniper Elite 3 Steam keys after - it claims - a retailer suffered a "security breach" which resulted in stolen keys being sold to customers through various means online. The game took the top spot in the UK charts for the most recently recorded week, according to Chart-Track.
Microsoft continues to refute that it is shutting Games For Windows Live down in July. In August of last year a support update on Xbox.com stated, "Games for Windows Live will be discontinued on July 1, 2014". That message was later removed and Microsoft has denied that it is shutting down the multiplayer service for PC games ever since.
Ubisoft has issued a statement attempting to explain why the PC version of Watch Dogs included unused graphical options hidden within its game files. The company also said that a mod enabling these features is not a good thing for PC users because it can cause a number of unwanted technical and gameplay issues.
The latest Humble Weekly Bundle, the Humble Weekly Strategy Bundle, offers seven games worth $114 for $9 or more. Pay what you want for Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Stronghold Crusader HD, and Cubetractor (none of these games are available for Mac or Linux, and all must be redeemed via Steam).
The winner of Monday's DreamHack Hearthstone tournament has been accused of cheating by the community - even though organizers have reviewed the situation and given both participants a "pass," and the loser of the event says that the winner beat him fair and square. The trouble revolves around the winner, Radu 'RDU' Dima, who apparently received Battle.net messages from friends while the finals were taking place. Dima eventually bested Team Liquid's Jason 'Amaz' Chan by 3-0 to take home a $10,000 prize pot.
Microsoft hasn't been the best of friends with the PC gaming community over the last few years. While the company says that it has a lot of faith in the PC gaming space, you can always tell how strongly they feel about something by how much they highlight it at E3. And at this year's E3 Microsoft didn't even talk about PC games or show any that we know of.
Getting a jump on Valve and its annual Summer Steam Sales, GOG.com has launched its own summer sale. The 2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale features giveaways, flash deals, daily bundle deals and at least 50 percent off on over 700 PC games. Some of the many games on sale have discounts as high as 90 percent off, but this special pricing is time limited.
Games getting deep discounts include The Witcher 2, Papers Please, Painkiller Black Edition, Shadowrun Returns, Wizardry 6 & 7 bundle, the Kentucky Route Zero seasons pass, UFO Aftershock, and a whole lot more.
On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about who the GamePolitics community thinks will make the biggest E3 gaffe this year, President Obama name-dropping The Witcher, the new GOG.com DRM-free and platform-agnostic multiplayer client (Galaxy) and Verizon threatening to sue Netflix for talking about its service performance (This show was recorded prior to all of this week's E3 press conferences and announcements).