As summer rolls on, shorts get shorter, tops get scarcer, corner shop Curly Wurlys get goopier, and the video game sales, oh the video game sales keep on coming. Green Man Gaming sat in the shade sucking on a Calippo as other digital stores held their summer sales but today they stood up and strode into the scorching sun with a determination that says "I…
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2 years ago
Feature: "Ground control to Major Brendan"
Every week we launch Brendan through the atmosphere into the cold, dark void of early access. This time, the realistic space station (mis)management of Stable Orbit [official site] My first space station is called the Floppy Floater. It is a barren place, so bleak in demeanour that it fails even to qualify as a potential setting for a post-disaster sci-fi shooter, even though it has…
4 years ago
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Which Digital Game Store Is Best For Refunds: Steam vs. UPlay vs. Origin vs. GOG
Rumour has it that the decrepit Arkham Knight port beat a retreat on account of Steam refunds. After all, what better way to get a dastardly developer to blush and shuffle its hooves than to reverse its cash flow? Until June, when no-questions-asked refunds came into force, such a feat was impossible. Perhaps, after years of pro-consumer jabs at Microsoft and other corporates, Valve sought…
5 years ago
As we cast our ever-vigilant gaze to the starboard bow, we raise a brow to the sight of Starpoint Gemini 2 gently docking with Steam Early Access, a wild frontier station. We haven't heard from the space sim/RPG since 2011, when it first appeared, causing Jim to express conflicted thoughts (interesting, but not necessarily enjoyable or robust). The game is now in full 3d and…
8 years ago
Hello, it's me again with your (almost) daily free stuff delivery. Digital download service Green Man Gaming has relaunched, and to celebrate they've giving us 1c's medieval strategy, Reign: Conflict of Nations, for free. For details on how to claim a copy, click onwards, and below.
Here's some news courtesy of Beefjack- looks like it's not just Steam that's performing cut-price shenanigans right now. As of today, Green Man Gaming are offering what they call a 'Try and Trade' deal. Basically, you buy and download any one of the selected games, and if you ask for your money back before Midnight PST on Sunday they'll refund all but £1/$1/€1. More than…
9 years ago
A big part of the industry's support, such as it is, for game download services such as Steam, GamersGate et al is that it kills the second-hand/trade-in market. A sale's a sale, a customer's a customer, and shops don't end up with endless dusty racks of second-hand copies of Call of Duty: World At War that only confused mothers try to buy when their kid…