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  • Google Ingress is refreshing

    Screw all the PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect games, screw Wii and Wii U. This is an amazing idea and I happened to be selected for beta today! You basically need any mid-range Android device, get the application from the Google Play and register to the beta there. After you’re selected chose your own nickname…

  • Free game: Earth 2160

    Green Man Gaming is offering Earth 2160 for free today, you have over 20 hours to get it!

  • Origin update to allow live streaming your games

    Origin is about to release an update (available in beta now) that will enable Twitch integration which will allow anyone to stream their games live for the world to see.   The update will also bring various fixes to the client like improved menus, friends list and client responsivness and add new features like importing…

  • Halloween Sale on Origin – selected games 50% off!

    There is a pretty nice sale on Origin right now, selected titles are 50% off (you just gotta complete an easy puzzle first), including Battlefield 3 Premium.

  • Get Loaded 72 hours deal – 2 games for 12€

  • Warning: Medal of Honor Warfighter RU restricted to Russian language only!

    Thanks to our friends at Keys4.me we’re now sure that Medal of Honor Warfighter "Russian" is restricted to Russian language only. Be wary of sellers who are selling the Limited Edition version of the game for around the 30-35€ mark as it is likely they are selling it with mis-informed information and it is going…

  • Few new things on Good Old Games!

    And another Pay What You Want thing, this time with Interplay games. Check it out here. GOG also introduced 50 games for Mac lately. Check them out here!

  • Get any $20 game on Origin… for free!

      Use this code: OS3874XVC I posted about this on our Twitter yesterday and since I think it still works I’m posting it here. To get any $20 game on Origin completly for free. If you are from outside of USA or Canada you need to use proxy (this one works 100%: ip: 168.8.76.247 port:…

  • GOG introduces Pay What You Want!

    That’s nice of them, they offer Divinity Anthology as Pay What You Want for next 6 days. The minimum you have to pay is $1 which is great I guess. Certain amounts of money unlock other things as you can see on the screenshot below: Lets hope others (Steam, Origin etc) will follow soon!

  • Get Loaded!

    There’s a cool promo on Get Games! Check it out over here.

  • Uplay as vessel for malicious software

    I usually like titles with a pun or something on those lines, attempting to find a funny side even in a disaster. Not this time. Not when the threat is so dangerous and imminent. According to this article there’s a huge hole in Uplay’s browsers plugin which lets anybody run potentially anything on the victim’s…

  • Valve counters EA’s Steam sales "cheapen intellectual property" accusation

    "If we thought having a 75 per cent sale on Portal 2 would cheapen Portal 2, we wouldn’t do it." Valve has countered EA’s accusation that Steam sales "cheapen" intellectual property, saying they in fact benefit games, publishers and gamers. Last month EA’s David DeMartini, who runs rival digital platform Origin, said Steam sales, which…

  • Green Man Gaming: 25% Off All The Games

    Here’s what they posted on the site yesteday. To kick things off we’re handing you a 25% voucher, which will get you 25% off the listed price for any product on our site, just use this code: 25OFF-ALLTH-EGAME

  • EA: Origin won’t copy Steam 75% off sales

    Origin boss David DeMartini told Gamesindustry International that random deep-discounting of games "cheapens" intellectual property, and promised not to copy the practice. "We won’t be doing that," he said, bluntly. "Obviously they think it’s the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. “ "I…

  • EA invites you to give feedback on Origin

      EA have put up a blog entry called, “Continuing the Origin Conversation”, or, “Please tell us what we’re doing wrong.” The post invites users to comment on their favourite Origin feature, as well as features they’d like to see added in the future. The post has already attracted over 300 comments, from, “I would…

  • Fallout is free today on GOG!

    Check it out: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

  • Witcher 2 devs giving away "legendary" PC RPG free on GOG this Thursday

    CD Projekt Red will give away a "legendary" PC RPG for free on GOG.com this Thursday, 5th April (revealed by Eurogamer). The giveaway coincides with CD Projekt’s Spring Conference, which is being streamed live at 5pm GMT (presumably 6pm BST). Note that giveaway has nothing to do with the "extraordinary" conference announcement CD Projekt has…

  • Good (not so?) Old Games grows bigger, puts it’s first pre-order for a brand new game

    The new, new GOG offers more community features to suggest new games, a new, faster downloader, and, most importantly, more games. GOG is fulfilling its promise of newer games with a growing selection of recent indies including Trine and The Whispered World. It’s even selling a game that’s so not old, it’s not even out…

  • Empire Earth is free on GOG for the next 48 hours!

    Download the game for FREE That’s a cool promo I guess, if you’re into RTS games and don’t mind a little outdated graphics this is going to be perfect for you. All you need to do is login to your GOG account and download the free game (you can create a free GOG account as…

  • Xfire to work independently again

    Xfire, which has a social service used by 19 million gamers, has raised $4 million from Intel Capital and unnamed investors. As a result of the capital injection, Xfire is no longer tied to Titan Gaming, the company that acquired them from Viacom a little over a year ago. Both Xfire and Titan will operate…

  • 4.5 million pirated copies of Witcher 2 out there, according to CD Projekt

    Polish developer CD Projekt claims that its Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has been pirated more times since release than you might have expected. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, CEO Marcin Iwinski does some quick back-of-the-hand calculations according to what he saw on illegal downloading sites, and comes up with 4.5 million copies…

  • Origin to power Wii U online

    Electronic Arts is helping Nintendo in development of the Wii Uonline service, according to reports, and is bidding to make its Origin service a key part of the upcoming console’s online offering. According to an EA intern, speaking to WiiUGo, the console’s online service will offer voice and video chat, leaderboards and friends lists. Nintendo…

  • GOG is changing

    Over the last few years the Polish project has expanded from classics to a really impressive catalogue of games that made the 90s and early 00s interesting. Clearly they’ve been letting in many more recent games of late, with Fahrenheit appearing last week for example. And they used it to launch their own game, The…

  • Poll time: Do you use EA’s Origin?

    Just a simple question to you guys, out of curiosity: [poll id=”44″]

  • Indie Week @ Green Man Gaming

    There’s an Indie Week on Green Man Gaming, check it out.