What are Reddit's favorite Game Store Apps?

Take-Two (Rockstar Game's publisher) issued a Cease & Desist on a popular single-player file modification tool OpenIV, pissing off the entire modding community following that game. Steam users have been reviewing the game negatively on Steam to lower the review score, attempting to deter any new buyers and make a statement about why it was a bad idea.

Found this game after I discovered the long-finished XKCD Game Jam earlier today.

It's possible to get across the road, but as far as I can tell it's not possible to do so without causing a major accident.

Not all games like that are bad. Subnautica was an Early Access Open World Survival and Crafting game that ended up getting a full release to great reviews.

Well, not as interesting as a sex hack, I suppose, but...

My fiance gets really upset with me if I work late and forget to text her. I often forget, and she won't make the first move to text me. It was getting to be a huge deal.

Then I discovered Llama for my Android phone. I setup a script that fires if the time is after 6:40 (I usually leave work by 6:15), if I am still connected to the cell tower at work, and if I can still see the wifi network. This script sends a text that says, 'I'm going to be working late tonight', and dings to let me know it sent. It's been working fantastic.

I just recently added a new one that fires if the time is after 5:00pm, and I have just left the work cell tower area, that sends a 'I am on my way home' message. She has been super pleased at how consistent I have been about letting her know what is going on, and the best part is that I don't even have to remember to do anything. Thanks technology!

Just an edit to add, I also added a variable to make sure the actions can only fire once per day, with an action that happens around 3am to reset that variable, so if I leave work and go back it won't go off twice.

Thanks for all the comments, I'm glad you guys enjoyed it.

Links: lama send sms

FYI, Titanfall 2 is on sale for $32.
Go to EA's origin enter coupon code TITAN20

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/5dn9z3/origin_titanfall_2_pc_digital_download_3999_33/

TL;DR: EA broke Australian consumer law with their "Origin" store between 1 January 2012 to 20 April 2015.

Link to how you can get your refund: https://www.origin.com/en-au/yourconsumerrights

Link to ACCC story: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/electronic-arts-undertakes-to-provide-refunds-to-consumers

I had asked them online for a refund several times. I spoke to a representative through Origin who verified my account and identity but said that I had to call a US number for refunds. I used my remaining phone credit super early in the morning (because they don't have AU office hours!) sitting on hold twice for over 30 mins. Knew this was bullshit so I complained to ACCC and they've finally forced my money out of EA's money laundering account.

Get fucked, cunts.

This is the beginning of something awesome. This is our new On The House feature, where we give you guys full games for free, no strings attached. And there's a lot more to come.

https://www.origin.com/store/on-the-house-ANW.html

If somehow someone doesn't have Terraria yet: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Y3s3FueCP8NV^^^^ replace the last 4 arrows of the link with the abbreviation for the element with an average atomic mass of 131.3 amu. Followed by the name of the chess square (number then capital letter) where a black bishop can threaten an unmoved queen-side knight after the bishop has taken just one move from its original spot.

good luck

EDIT: wow, thanks so much for the gold!

It should probably be noted that Steam might save your payment information to the account after buying the game. To avoid having your grandson knowingly or unknowingly make a slew of unwanted purchases, just remove the payment method on the Steam Account Page.

Alternatively, you can buy him a Steam Gift Card (20$ or 50$) that he can apply to his account to buy whatever it is he wants.

Also, high five to being an awesome grandma! :)

Not only are they donating all the proceeds to charity. They freakin' put a link to this Humble Bundle on all of these games' store pages letting people know they can get that game and 8 others from Humble Bundle! Just in case you were about to buy these games full price!

Check it out for PvZ Garden Warfare, the little header below the main title and connected to the feature box. https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/plants-vs-zombies-garden-warfare/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition

Very impressive! Good on you EA!

I made an account this morning to post this, but dumb low karma rule. So thank you for posting this! I have been waiting for this forever!

Link for the news: https://steamcommunity.com/games/242760/announcements/detail/1647632012691535057

Store Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/The_Forest/

Thanks for playing! During development we did not do anything, that is why our kickstarter tanked. We did launch the game as early access on itch.io pretty much one year ago to get some feedback (really great to have a small tester audience first, don't just throw it on Steam!). But it became obvious that just platform traffic is not enough. At first I would try to understand how the "game is played" from the perspective of press, bloggers and more. You need to do the fundamentals right. On top of that try to tell your story and that of the game and get people involved in the Beta/EA of the game.
Last part was the most successful for us but wouldn't have worked without the preparation.
Best of luck with your game! If you want, send us something on discord if you want us to give you more feedback :)

And for independent developer that don't have or don't want a store of there own (because it's a big way to ruin yourself) there's always the Humble Widget or itch.io who take under 10% for selling your game.

Even with a summer sale, you're still dropping nearly $200 on everything.

https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/browse?searchString=sims%204

Assuming you bought all the bundle packs, and all the individual DLC, game would cost you $370 full price. I doubt they'd drop newer stuff to 50% off, but if they did, and you bought it all, still $185 in Sims 4.

Well that's intersting since it is specifically mentioned as being in the game on the Origin store page for Star Wars Battlefront.... >Battle alongside your friends online or in offline split-screen Co-op mode

(seond bullet from the bottom)

It's high fantasy instead of high camp, but Pyre sounds a lot like what you're looking for.
With passing, offensive and defensive moves, different point totals for scoring via throw or body slam, and the unique gameplay tweak of having a banishment aura that disappears when you have the ball, the game is a tight series of team fights with a fantasy ruleset that has surprising depth.

Here are three known workarounds:

1) Go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/ and see your purchased history

2) Change Detail view to "Recent" under library, it'll show the game in purchased order. BUT it shows your ENTIRE library, not just installed ones. Steam beta only.

3) Change library view to List View, and sort the games by Last Played. It'll list the games in purchased order.

Hey there OP

Name of the game: Need for Speed 2015
Link to game

It's 100% visual, the pre-order bonuses have no gameplay impact. Check the actual page then calm down.

>Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst Combat Runner Kit

>Take your fight for freedom to the next level with unique in-game items. Change how you appear in other players' worlds with the combat-themed Projection Shader. Stand out in the leaderboards with a Runner Tag. Plus, customize your Screen Hacks with a unique background.

>Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst Speed Runner Kit

>Give speed a whole new meaning with the Speed Runner Kit. Change how you appear in other players' worlds with the speed-themed Projection Shader. Stand out in the leaderboards with a Runner Tag. Plus, customize your Screen Hacks with a unique background.

PUBG stats from Steam:

• Current players: 1,531,230

• Peak today: 1,825,432  

For reference, Dota 2 on 2nd place has 642,518 current players and 662,475 peak.

https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

So, while Fortnite is a juggernaut, PUBG isn't doing that bad either.  

Please do yourself a favor and buy the VN. It's out now on steam.

If you already have Steins; Gate VN on steam, you can get the bundle and get a 10% discount

While you could certainly optimize them more, I'd argue that this type of graph just doesn't work that well with a big number of items that are full of spikes.
If you keep the number of entries low and only have slow gradual changes it works great, like these, but once it gets more complex, separate line charts might be more appropiate.

I like that /r/games is starting to get more news about emulators and the technical side of things like this. It's a nice change from news about what the latest shooter dooty is or how much people think x game sucks.

Also, don't forget to give to AGDQ! The Humble Bundle comes with a few classics and Volgarr the Viking is infuriatingly fun. If you grew up on side scrollers and miss curling up into a ball and wriggling on the ground after you threw your NES or SNES controller through your TV because you just don't have what it takes, this is the game for you!

https://gamesdonequick.com/

https://www.humblebundle.com/

In case anyone is wondering, this is On The House, Origin's new way to give you full PC games for free, absolutely no strings attached. The games are yours to keep forever. This is just the beginning - there's much more to come.

Here's some details on it: https://www.origin.com/store/on-the-house-ANW.html

On the House game. So it does not seem as price error.

EDIT: A great game if you avoided it until now.

Also direct link to the On the House deal.

"inspired by the classics DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior and Serious Sam" - My problem with all the new games that want to copy the classics is they allways focus on just shooting and gore in their pitch. They forget all those games listed above have some of the best and BRILLIANT LEVEL DESIGN ever. You can run around in Blood and Duke Nukem for 10-15 minutes like an idoit, then you break a wall, and it turns out you didn't move ten meters. They used little space they had to it's maximum potential. So, a flat area with a bunch of enemies in this video is too little to impress me (I know it's just a survival arena).

BTW, this is a link to their previous game, it looks interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/383930/Doorways_Holy_Mountains_of_Flesh/

I think this is great news actually.

Firstly, it means GOG.com will be able to continue their DRM-free policy. (I was worried that Thronebreaker, tied to Gwent, would be only available using a Gwent account and thus DRM which is necessary for an online card game, but totally unnecessary for a single-player RPG.)

Secondly, it's a good marketing move IMO. If you had to install Gwent and Thronebreaker was a DLC inside it, a lot of people would just skip it. ("Meh, I don't play card games / not interested in stand-alone Gwent.") This way, it's being marketed as a stand-alone RPG without the word Gwent in the name, so a lot of people will just pick it up who are interested in more Witcher content. From there, it will have obvious ties to Gwent so those interested in the multiplayer aspects will come over to Gwent.

Thirdly, the tie-in connection to your Gwent account means we Gwent players get rewards for playing Thronebreaker. And people who are just playing Thronebreaker are incentivised to install Gwent to claim their rewards there.

Fourthly, it means that in the sad event that Gwent does fail as a multiplayer game in the next year, it won't take Thronebreaker down with it.

So this is good for Gwent and good for Thronebreaker.

It's there for a long time already. It's only on store page, it is suppose to promote game.

You can disabled this in Steam settings https://i.imgur.com/Yy5FjYx.png

https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/

The saddest part is that the game is cheaper on their own store.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/hammerwatch_storefront

On top of that, the soundtrack was released for free by the developer:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/239070/discussions/0/810938082004315395/

I had one stock widget and the other one was

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilityflow.animatedweather.free

I honestly don't usually even have two weather weather widgets. I had put an extra on the home screen only because I was picking up my brother from UC Berkeley just a day ago. Just plain luck since they were prepared for the exact "task" in advance.

The problem is that lots of these marketplaces (Bethesda.net, Blizzard app, Paradox's client, Ubisoft's uPlay, lots of others I'm sure) exist for the sole purpose of first-party games.

Steam is a marketplace which does have first-party Valve games but it mostly has games from other developers. Other open marketplaces that focus on third-party games include GOG and Itch. But Humble and GMG don't really count since they mostly sell Steam keys instead of distributing games themselves.

If you want Steam to have competition, buy from Itch or GOG.

> This War of Mine is an M-rated title, which may be restricted by Parental Control settings for younger players. Whenever we choose a M-rated or PEGI-18 title as a weekly free game, we will also offer another free game that will be more accessible to players of all ages.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/two-free-games-next-week

To The Moon

Not only because it's short enough, but because you'll want to finish it in one sitting.

You'll likely cry a bit that day, though.

Campo Santo announced and are working on In The Valley of Gods, so I guess that's the next Valve game after Artifact? Anless Valve cancel it, which I hope not because it looks great

It's single player and storydriven too... holy crap Valve could actually put out a new single player game!

Edit: They've confirnmed In The Valley of Gods is still coming out So yeah, that's absolutly goign to be the next Valve game!

If you can I would recommend buying it from the Humble Store instead, you get a steam key and the game DRM-free. On top of that, 10% of the cost goes to charity.

Yes.
*Edit: Apparently he already did!

Op, you can add link to Denuvo Steam Curator to your post.

It tries to solve this exact problem. While subscribed you will see this curator info right on the Steam Store Page of games that have Denuvo installed.

WhoIsIt - set certain contacts to always ring at full volume, even if your phone is on silent ( I have the alarm monitoring company for my work set to this so I never miss a call in case of a break in). Also set seperate ringtones and vibration patterns for each contact; with seperate ringtones for sms, mms, phone and gmail per contact.

Harass Me - default settings make it so if you receive 3 calls from the same number within 3 minutes your ringer will turn on if your phone is on silent. My family and immediate friends know to call 3 times in case of emergency in the middle of the night

edit: more details for what WhoIsIT can do, and links.

But at least they proved they're GDPR-compliant by handing over the data...

Of course, based on my limited understanding of the GDPR they now have less than 72 hours to decide if they need to report this to the relevant data protection authority; if they fail to do so, that's up to a fine of 10 million euros or 2 per cent of global turnover (although unlikely in this case).

And that's on top of any consequences for failing to secure the data in the first place (in practice, probably the more serious thing).

And they need to document all this. And probably go over a lot of their stuff to make sure it doesn't happen again. And probably some other stuff.

Then there's the possibility of suing - although that probably won't get far depending on where they're based. The Epic Store EULA has a binding arbitration clause, but that may not hold in some places (generally the EU doesn't like them), same with the limitations on liability and choice of law rules and so on. Might be difficult to show damage, though.

As an aside; they really should do the standard thing of having a separate section in their EULA for EU people - as with the Steam Subscriber Agreement - whereby the med-arb clause isn't valid. Although they do have a reference to the EU's Online Dispute Resolution Platform.

> PLEASE NOTE: Mass Effect Trilogy includes Mass Effect Pinnacle Station and Bring Down the Sky [origin]

which is marketing doublespeak for "it does NOT include ANY of the DLC that are actually worth it"

Rather than buying the top tier, you can go for the middle one ($6) and buy Costume Quest 2 on its own from Humble for $7.50.

You'd save yourself $1.50

SwiftKey X, Reddit News, Dropbox, ES File Explorer, AirDroid, Pulse News (if you like all your news in one place) and if you're going to root*, Clockwork Mod, LBE Privacy Guard, ~~AdFree~~ AdAway and JuiceDefender. So jealous - congrats!

*Thanks CMahaff

EDIT: As far as image uploading apps go, imgur for Android is pretty solid.

Anyone interested in starting a fork from the last stable GPL build? I've got a bit of Android dev experience. Perhaps other interested coders might want to band together!

EDIT: I'm going for it. I forked the github project, I'm going to do some testing, replace the icon (to avoid confusion) and get it back up in the Market for interested parties. Updates as they occur.

EDIT 2: here's the github fork: https://github.com/zagaberoo/diode

EDIT 3: It's up! Come and get it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.shick.diode Tomorrow I'll make a post announcing it to anyone else interested in staying open source. Then I'm going to add some GPL compliance stuffs like an about page that states the license.

The Steam Link app for IOS and Android is coming on May 21 for anyone wondering. As the name suggests, you'll be able to stream steam games directly to your phone/tablet and use any bluetooth controller your device supports.

Speaking of bullfrog, Origin's free game at the moment is Syndicate.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

Yeah that's right, that bitchin' isometric squad based massacre simulator based on corporate takeovers of the world is available, for free.

Sadly not with American Revolt.

On their main store page: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/epic-games-store-update

> We’ve shifted features targeted for April to May and June as development efforts have focused on supporting online features required for new game launches.

Screen Filter. Great for AMOLED screens that are too bright in pitch black even at the phones lowest brightness settings. Possibly saves battery? (but don't you buggers quote me on that!)

edit: A lot of love for this app! Let the dev know how you feel!

If you're planning to move to linux the best possible option is to stick with steam, they treat linux users as first class citizens and even actively contributes into making the ecosystem better for everyone by supporting open standards and making a lot of their tools open source, so people doesn't need to be locked to their solutions if they want to buy games. There's the humble store which has helped linux users a lot too and AFAIK is a pioneer regarding gaming on linux with their humble bundle initiative, on top of that they give you a DRM-free copy along an steam-key most of the time, there's no client tho. There's itch.io too which has a client that supports linux perfectly, it's even open source if i recall correctly, the negative part is that (i may be wrong) the game catalog is lacking compared to other stores. There's gog too, while there has no been any remarkable news lately about linux support and their client, they sell linux versions of games and the whole store is DRM-free, which is important.

Fortunately there's a lot of stores so we're not starved regarding options, specially if you consider steam which is the biggest one on windows too, but it's sad discord doesn't want to dance with us in this party. The more the merrier.

You can redeem online too (client not required) by doing the following:

Go to https://www.origin.com/us/account Log in to your Origin account using your Origin email and password. Select "Redeem Product Code" in the left-hand menu. Enter your product code on the Redeem Your Code page.

It's fine.

He's simply asking you to rate it and providing an incentive. He's not forcing people to rate it, and he's not telling you to rate it 5 stars (although you could say he vaguely is implying that).

I really don't see what isn't OK about this.

It's clearly effective, look at some of the other top fishing games:

iFishing Lite 1-5 million downloads, but only 5500 ratings

Big sport fishing 3d 1-5 million downloads, 10500 ratings

Gone fishing has 100-500k downloads but 17000 ratings.

Hmm, was it actually itch.io? I tried to search for it and "rimworld" didn't come up on it

https://itch.io/search?q=rimworld

Maybe it's been removed, but make sure he didn't buy it from ilch.io or something.

edit: from the other thread, looks like it was removed

I just checked out the Origin page for the game and there doesn't seem to be a season pass? If that's true then I'll be glad.

They've already done pay to win microtransactions for a while (but it wasn't gambling based): https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/battlefield/battlefield-4/addon/battlefield-4-air-vehicle-shortcut-kit

Honestly, this isn't such a great deal.

Instead, wait for this collection on Origin to go on sale for $5, which it does regularly.

This will get you the entire series, from the triumphant start (C&C1) to the horrible game that sunk the whole series (C&C4), and you'll also get things like Red Alert (excellent, probably even better than C&C!), Generals (very good!), Renegade (decent, though really dated now), and so on.

This Steam sale will only get you a small fraction of the games and they want $24 for what they do have.

Steam :
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?

Nvidia : 75.26%
AMD : 14.89%
Intel : 9.69%

Oculus (so higher end of the spectrum for PC gamers) :
https://developer.oculus.com/hardware-report/pc/

Nvidia : 92.4%
AMD : 7.6%
Intel : n/a (no VR capable Intel IGP)

Where is AMD a real competitor exactly ? They are using the same architecture since 2012 (GCN) with no new one in sight (Nvidia has gone through Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal and now Volta, in the same timespan).

AMD is finally being a competitor to Intel again on the CPU market, but not to Nvidia on GPUs.

Screen Filter

If your screen is too bright at night, use screen filter to dim it even further. Also if supported it can disable the button lights. Perfect for night reading

>You would be given a random username at the top of the page instead of yours [...] clicking that username would bring up that user's account

(emphasis mine)

It's a fine point, but this is actually incorrect. Every time you loaded any page, you'd be given a completely different cached page. It wasn't the same user. Clicking that button takes you to https://store.steampowered.com/account/, which always ended up being a different account. *Edit: This is of course a worse problem, as you'd get a new account's personal info every time you hit refresh.

It always bugs me when TB makes little mistakes like this, since he always talks as if he's an authority on everything, yet he makes silly little mistakes that show he really isn't paying attention.

Edit: Then later on...

>The problem is that it would seem, that the account page was not the only page you could access during the caching problem. There have been widespread reports including on the admittedly unofficial site, SteamDB, that it was also possible to access their checkout page through their cart, if they had items in the cart

Again, he's talking as if you're logged into one account. The reality was, every single page you viewed on steampowered.com was generated for the previous person. So every page you went to, it was logged in as someone else. Go to the account page and keep hitting refresh, you'll keep getting account after account after account. Go to the checkout page and hit refresh, same thing. Go to the cart page, any page, go to buy Skyrim, it doesn't matter, you get a different account every single page load. Refresh, Russian, refresh, German, refresh, English, refresh, Korean. You're not viewing one guy's cart from his account page, then going to that one guy's checkout page.

> Hell, Origin gives great customer service.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Origin now has better customer service than steam customer support which has turned to garbage over the past year and a half. Origin even let you have a full refund on a game if its within 7 days of purchase and within 24 hours of game activation, and best of all, this process is entirely automated through the client.

https://www.origin.com/en-gb/great-game-guarantee

Requests for refunds on steam have to be done through contacting a customer service rep, and even then you'll most likely get a long winded automated response that says 'no... now piss off'.

Speaking for the Euro-zone: If you want this game, consider buying the Humble Indie Bundle X instead. The average at the moment is $5.28, which is €3.86. I know that is half a euro more, but you get 5 additional games (with more to be added).

It's absolutely fucked right now. Literally just go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/ and you'll be shown a random users personal details.

Some sysadmin somewhere is probably having a heart attack.

Edit: They finally shut the servers down after nearly an hour of totally exposed account details.

Forgive me r/rocketleague, I suck at Rocket League.

But I'm a VR developer and here's a GIF from an app I'm working on called Bigscreen. It lets you use your computer on huge floating screens in VR (Oculus Rift or HTC Vive). Watch movies, browse reddit, or play your favorite Steam games. It also has Multiplayer, which this GIF shows. Up to 4 people can hangout in a virtual living room, with voice chat and screen streaming.

This basically enables "virtual LAN parties" in VR. Hangout, watch movies, or play games with your buddies across the country. Like real LAN parties, you can collaborate/strategize, screen peek / cheat, or just hangout. It's hard to explain how cool and immersive this feels in VR. Hope I'm not breaking some sub rule by sharing this, but I figured you guys might think it's cool!

There's actually a VR LAN party for Rocket League right now, today. So if you've got an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, come join us in Bigscreen! More info about the party here. I'm gonna be playing in one of the [noob] rooms. Go easy on me :P

We've been addressing the feedback in this thread, if the mods are reading it'd be nice to give "itch.io developer" flair for:

• /u/leafo2
• /u/GranPC
• /u/fasterthanlime

(feel free to DM me if you need any sort of proof, team page for starters)

To anyone who is thinking of buying it. Pay $5 for a month of EA Origin Access. You'll get 10 hours of the trial to see if you like the game. If you do, you save $6 (10%), so you save a dollar and got 10 hours free. If you end up hating the game, you are only out $5 and still have a month to play other games (including all the old ones, which are good games).

I'm not trying to say you should buy it, but I know people are going to do so regardless of what reviews say, so just trying to save people money. I'm going to wait til it's cheap and the issues are fixed.

Holy camel! That trailer looks amazing!

​

Will it also be available outside Steam Workshop though? I have the GOG.com version of the game.

​

Also, what time period is it based on? I'm guessing the First Crusade but I might be wrong.

So I bought DayZ Standalone when it was first released on Steam because Early Access was a new thing, and I had hopes that one of my favourite games/mod would have a fully supported standalone version(500 hours on Arma 2).

Since Valve has finally addresed our rights as consumers in Australia, I've been granted a full refund 4 years after I purchased it. It might help that I only had 21 minutes playtime, but I'm finally glad that the developers of that scam of a game will lose my money.

PSA to all Australians. Stand up for your rights.

EDIT: Let me just say that you can't just abuse this and refund whatever you want. But we are now entitled to a refund past the 2 hour/14 day mark if the game is completely unplayable or falsely advertised ^^^like ^^^dayz.

EDIT2: FYI, I kept getting refund requests bouncing back after 10-30 minutes using the refund system, and well I don't believe for a second that a real Valve employee checks the requests. So I sent another ticket about my account and not directly linked to a purchase and a real person responded.

EDIT3: For anyone who doesn't understand: https://store.steampowered.com/consumer_rights_notice/

EDIT4:

HOW TO ACTUALLY SEND A REAL STEAM SUPPORT REQUEST

• Go here: https://help.steampowered.com/en/

• Select the "Purchases" option

• Scroll all the way down and click "View complete purchasing history"

• Find the game you want to refund and click it

• Click the "I have a question about this purchase" option

• Write in your reason for refunding.

"Donated to Yogscast's Charity Thing cuz I feel guilty that we didn't give away GMod and Rust - lets get them to 1m! https://www.humblebundle.com/yogscast"

https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/550310395395973120

PSA: To anyone who didn't realize many of the discounts would be over today and missed out on any deals they were still wanting to pick up:

Check The Humble Store since it still has many of the same games on sale and most (all that I've seen) come with steam keys!

You're referrring to Origin's Great Game Guarantee; this is only applicable for specific time periods and does not apply to most of the non-EA games sold on Origin.

Applicable games include an "Origin Great Game Guarantee eligible" notice on the store page.

Not related to gaming but Humble + Skybound is giving away three free issues of the The Walking Dead.

When you hit "submit", it ties a link page to your account.

> not "Earth but with blue trees"

So I take it No Man's Sky is out?

Subnautica might be a good pick - Feels alien but believable

Reminder that all Titanfall DLC is free now, and forever.

Do not buy the deluxe edition or anything featuring extra maps. Simply 'purchase' the season pass through origin - it is listed as free.

Edit: The vanilla version is no longer being sold on Origin - you must buy the deluxe edition.

Damn, I was still under the impression Newgrounds is still a place to go!

If you consider "old newgrounds" to be where you mostly find odd/interesting games that you don't find in most sites, it still sort of is. But I think GameJolt is becoming what Newgrounds used to be when it comes to representing many of the odd/interesting games.

Newgrounds is still an awesome place to find interesting art pieces and music.

Seriously though. I'm just about to release a flash game I've been working on on-and-off for about 4 years now. This couldn't come at a worse time :(

You can play games on Epic offline, here's how

If that doesn't work, then it means that they designed Metro Exodus to require online DRM at all times, which yeah would be a dick move by Deep Silver.

They also added it to steam, and it looks like it's getting good reviews, one of the nice things about steam is that after looking at some of the open source games added to it, it turns out some open source games don't suck ...

The Surge on Steam:

• demo available
• Mostly Positive 76% rating with 2,927 reviews (all purchase types & languages)
• action RPG with sci-fi theme and detailed 3D graphics, single-player, full controller support
• drops 3 of 5 cards
• 57 achievements
• released on May 15, 2017
• Windows

The Surge is an action RPG with a sci-fi theme and detailed 3D graphics from the same developers as Lords of the Fallen. Features fast-paced Souls-like melee combat with its own unique mechanics, a crafting system, leveling and many skill implants, exo-skeletons, and a 20+ hour long main story lengthened by included DLC.

Steam reviews suggest this game has challenging, fast-paced and unique combat that can get a little repetitive, but most enjoy; good combat controls that are easy to learn, but difficult to master; resolved the vast majority of its release-day technical issues; very nice graphics, animation and environments; a stronger early-to-mid than late game; only a handful of bosses; alright music/sound; many customizable gameplay settings; a somewhat generic, but alright story; and mixed opinion on level designs.

Deal is a couple dollars above the recent historical low of $22.99 from GameBillet. Includes base game with all current DLC, which add items, skills and story content, delivered as a single Steam key. Possibly worth considering for Souls-like fans interested in similar combat with its own unique, faster paced mechanics.

Obviously the heroes are a huge topic of conversation. I'm hearing a lot of complaints about people being upset with the choices. Here's my 2 cents.

When it comes to Greedo and Nien Nunb I say the more the merrier. I'm not mad that they were chosen as heroes. It makes sense they'll be added wth the Outer Rim. While both have little backstory in the films I think they're fun additions. HOWEVER, the reason people are upset, myself included, is because DICE promised us 4 total heroes and villains. Not 8. (Origin Season Pass details). Obviously a lot of what dice says is up to interpretation and whether or not these 4 are paid and there will be additional heroes that will come with free DLC remains to be seen. If someone has any sources that additional heroes will be added to the 4 then please share. But as it stands, 2 of our 4 new heroes will be these two characters. If adding these characters means we cannot get Chewy or Obi Wan or Lando that is why people are mad. The vast majority of people would welcome Greedo and Nien Nunb if it didn't mean limiting our chances of our favorite characters.

Direct links to the game listings:

Just Cause 4

Wheels of Aurelia

For anyone not finding it in their Origin: Just go through this site and click "Als erster ausprobieren". It will then open up in Origin.

https://www.origin.com/deu/de-de/store/fifa/fifa-19

*Come back to work from buying lunch

*See reddit post regarding GoG Galaxy 2.0.X news

*Ceck email, 1 new email

*Sender: GoG.com

*EXCITEMENT RISES

*Read title: ☀ Accumulation of deals • Don't miss a perfect chance to stock up for the rest of the Summer!

*Cries in hotdog

It's not only the payment details. Let me past my previous comment:

"By browsing the store you can end up logged as random people. What is worse by going to https://store.steampowered.com/account you get full access to people's accounts.

Attackers can get your e-mail, your account number, last digits of your phone and do a phishing attack.

They potentially (will not try it myself) could remove games from your library because valve had the bright idea to add that "feature", could refund your games and could set up a mobile identificator on their phone and lock you out. Edit: and it seems that you indeed can: https://archive.is/ChYBI

Imo this is unacceptable and valve should immediately take the store down until they fix their mess. Message valve on twitter and raise awareness to show them that you are not ok with their massive security failure."

I blocked that right away with LBE privacy guard.

Edit: also wanted to add that I did add a negative review and email to devs. And, I should have include a link earlier, so here: LBE Privacy Guard

Answer: to give a bit more context, the Epic Store is pretty much objectively inferior to the Steam Store when it comes to features. It currently has a roadmap with lots of to-be-implemented features that Steam already has, including cloud saves and a shopping cart.

The reason these exclusivity deals are happening is because of benefits to the game developer/publisher: the Epic Store takes a smaller cut of sales than Steam does, and Epic is presumably paying for these deals. This is good for the game creators, but players are upset because they view this as Epic throwing their money around to force their way into the digital distribution market without doing the work of building a storefront that people want to use.

Higher tier is actually a decent deal this time around. Lowest prices for Typing of the Dead, Binary Domain, and Renegade Ops alone add up to more than $5.99. Great bundle overall! $1 tier is a complete steal.

e: Here's a gift link for Alpha Protocol, Hell Yeah, Company of Heroes, and Rome: Total War: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=zFPcHT5bEmMDBx5c

Comment if you take it!

Developer Notes: My twin brother started Read It Later back in 2007 and has been expanding it ever since. Near the end of 2010 I decided to join in and started building an Android client which was released the following year. Over the last year our modest little team has grown to eight people. In April of 2012 we rebranded to Pocket. Outside of Pocket I also have a game that I am working little by little on.

Seriously, just reading the game description, including the system requirements, makes the whole game worth it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/847880/Asset_Flip_Simulator/ This is sad for Steam, but is also genuinely funny and clever. Some critics could call this whole thing an art piece even, because it is not just a game, they are actually trying to make a point.

For everyone thinking of buying the game, buy from Green Man Gaming instead of Steam:

https://www.greenmangaming.com/

You get the same game, in Steam and for 20% off with the voucher below:

DERHE-RRDER-RINGE

Found a way, if you go to https://www.humblebundle.com/?s=resender and input the email address you used to purchase FTL (even if you didn't buy it through humblebundle) it will send you a link with the option to redeem it on steam

You just have to remove the F2P license first.

Go into "Account Details" > "View licenses and product key activations":
(Or click this: https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/)

Click the "Remove" button next to ESEA and then click "OK".

Then you should be able to purchase the premium version.

Nope, it's an on-demand license, which is the "new" way of doing free games on Steam. It'll stay on your account forever unless you manually remove it here.

If they take down the store page on December 31st, you'll still be able to install it by opening steam://install/312990.

we're still trying to figure out the best way to rename that category to fit all the good times in, folks can check out our efforts here: https://itch.io/t/384953/physical-games-classification-project

We recently added a ton of classic EA titles on the Origin store, including the full Wing Commander series. I've been replaying Magic Carpet lately, and it rules.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/shop/digital-delights

Galaxy Note users who get the ICS upgrade: You can now join the pressureNET project as you have a barometer and ICS! We receive about 700 measurements per hour from around the globe, and are hoping to grow this as much and as fast as we can in order to make real attempts at providing better short-term local weather prediction. The project is open source (see cumulonimbus.ca for code and discussion.)

(I've been popping in to all of the Note threads recently, and if I'm starting to bore you let me know, I'll pipe down)

I'm not sure exactly WTF is EA doing lately.

1. They removed trials
2. Even though they still have free promotions they removed link to it so you gotta find it on your own like BF1 Premium that's free atm or BF4 Premium
3. They change store page to confusing grid system that makes it harder to navigate and stupid price is hidden even on sale??

I don't understand how this helps at all, it seems like 3 steps back instead of 3 steps foward.

​

If you want trials it seems you have to find them on your own. Here's FIFA 19 https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/fifa/fifa-19

The combat mechanics are very different, more Dark Souls-esque. Huge world, lots of detail, lots of different weapons. Cool assassin. I wrote a blog about it here if you wanna read.

Um... Does no one remember they have DLC bundles for ME2 and ME3 now?

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/mass-effect/mass-effect-2/addon/mass-effect-2-dlc-bundle
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/mass-effect/mass-effect-3/addon/mass-effect-3-dlc-bundle

They can theoretically give it away now. But they won't. At least we don't have to deal with Bioware Points BS anymore.

Delisted an copyright issues from what I understand. Instead, check out this PC port from the same developers. Includes Marble Blast Ultra and levels from all the other Marble Blast games.

http://gamejolt.com/games/marble-blast-ultra-pc/73521

I read somewhere, I think it was in the book "Portal 2 - The Final Hours", that a representative of Valve visited the DigiPen fair to scout for talent and projects. The representative saw ND and told the team that he wasn't that interested in the project. The ND team called or emailed him the next day asking him why he didn't like it and how to improve it. They got invited to the Valve office to show the game again and get some advice. When they demoed the game Gabe walked by, saw the game and hired them on the spot.

edit: Just looked it up. The story is in the book. source: Portal 2 - The Final Hours , page 58 https://www.scribd.com/document/54009497/The-Final-Hours-of-Portal-2 The book is just 2 bucks on steam if you want to buy it https://store.steampowered.com/app/104600/Portal_2__The_Final_Hours/

Workaround for people from NA (you have to be logged in the Steam client):

steam://install/277971

It may say something weird like "You are about to install .", but just click next, then it'll say "This game cannot be installed.", but you'll have it registered to your account (https://store.steampowered.com/account/).

Credit to people who commented on the announcement.

If you think the idea of smashing through 90 bajillion enemies using progressively bigger weapons and explosions and picking up 90 bajillion pieces of loot sounds boring, this is not the series for you. Personally, I loved Torchlight II (the sequel) and would put it in my top 10 games.

I found it so satisfying to beat things to a pulp with a giant hammer (engineer is my class of choice), especially knocking down enemies with big fire earthquake strikes. I think the melee combat in TL has a great "weight" to it. I also love sorting through piles of loot.

Yes, the "gameplay loop" is find weapon, smash enemy, find better weapon, smash more enemies, find better weapons... but I had a great time doing that and didn't find it boringfor almost 100 hours. It's sort of addicting--I used to find myself playing way too many hours in a sitting.

However, I tried to go back and try Torchlight after beating Torchlight II and I couldn't quite get into it. 2 has QOL improvements that made 1 seem a bit dated, although the combat is similar, so I'm sure Torchlight is still great fun. I can vouch for Torchlight II though, which is also on sale on GMG right now: $4.00 / 80% off