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Humble Bundle Was Acquired By IGN

"Announcing our biggest bundle ever: Humble Bundle is proudly joining the IGN family! We will continue to bring you all of our humble products, but with more resources and help from IGN.

We chose IGN because they really understand our vision, share our passion for games, and believe in our mission to promote awesome digital content while helping charity. I can’t think of a better partner than IGN to help Humble Bundle continue our quest.

We will be working harder than ever to bring you the best gaming bundles, book bundles, and store sales, while nurturing the Humble Monthly and our new publishing initiative. We will keep our own office, culture, and amazing team with... Read All

Travis Admin wrote on 10/14/2017 at 04:52am

This is... hmm...

I'm cautiously optimistic here. IF IGN stays hands-off with them and lets them keep doing their thing, then it's a win for everyone. If not... eeehhhhhhh...

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/16/2017 at 03:50am

I've been thinking more about this and I think IGN is buying The Humble Bundle for a play at the digital store games selling market.

My thought is that since The Humble Bundle has so many gamer accounts and "mindshare" and they have the Humble Store + Humble Monthly that IGN will double down on the digital store aspect and eventually they will rebrand the property as "Humble" or "The Humble Store" or something like that. They will keep the Humble Bundle but eventually the focus will be on the store part and the monthly games service that might eventually operate a bit more like Netflix. Not that you'd stop getting game keys, but they are already putting certain games in the monthly you will always get access to regardless of the month you start your subscription.

I sort of see this acquisition in the same way "Good old Games" eventually rebranded to GOG.com that is now a DRM free game store. Eventually Humble will release a service client that works outside the browser and even sell movies and such becoming a larger digital store. It will still keep the DRM free part where it can because that sets it apart from Steam, EA or UPlay.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/16/2017 at 09:33pm

How much does Humble donate? I sure hope IGN keeps the donation portion in place.

Travis Admin wrote on 10/16/2017 at 11:30pm

The Humble Store does 10%, but on the bundles you can choose how to spread it.

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Sega Genesis Flashback HD Coming November

AtGames, the current keeper of the Sega Brand and games is releasing a new console next month that aims squarely at the success of the NES & SNES Classic called the Sega Genesis Flashback HD. Sporting an 85 game lineup, 720p HD, wireless controllers and the ability to play Sega Genesis games and use your old controllers it's a pretty interesting prospect. It's just that... well... it's not reviewing very well.

Kotaku gave the system and resounding "meh" while Kotaku basically think's it's terrible. How is it actually? I'm not sure, but it's a compelling system with actual Sega Genesis playback and the 85 included games is a compelling prospect. I think i'm going to... Read All

Portcenter Looks Back At Final Fantasy VI

Ben Paddon is back with another episode of Ports Center looking at what I consider to be the highlight of the series, Final Fantasy VI. He concludes that the best port of the game is the GBA version, which I agree with him on except the music. Most things on the GBA version are superior including the graphics, translation as well as the addition of extra dungeons and items but the music isn't as good as the Super Nintendo version due to the limitations of the GBA sound hardware. One fix for this is to play the FFVI GBA version with a SNES Music ROM Hack, which i've done and it significantly improves things.

Final Fantasy III is included on the SNES Classic and that's a... Read All

This The Donkey Kong Country Promo VHS Tape Is Totally X-TREME!

Somehow I got this tape in sent to me in the 90's and I loved it. It really got me excited about Donkey Kong Country and as such the hype was so real I bought it. After I played and beat the game about a zillion times I came back to watch the tape and it never really hit me the same way after playing the game. As time passed I ditched the tape, which in hindsight wasn't a great idea but my young self didn't really realize that kind of thing might be useful to keep around someday. Nor that i'd be collecting VHS tapes 20 years later.

The Donkey Kong country tape video embedded above is 17 minutes of 90's Nintendo at the height of it's power and majesty. The video is... Read All

DF Retro Analyzes Each Doom Console Port From The Worst To The Best!

Makes sense that DF Retro's longest episode to date covers Doom, one of the most important games ever made. In this nearly hour long opus DF Retro talks about each Doom console port and how they nearly all relate to each other. He also talks about the Doom console ports history, limitations and playability.

"id software’s Doom played a key part in gaming’s transition from two to three dimensions, and its legacy of technical innovation continues to this day. On this episode of DF Retro, John explores its origins on the PC before comparing and contrasting this against every official console conversion. There's a lot of ground to cover so buckle up for the longest episode... Read All

Lose Your Life To The Latest Humble Endless RPG-Lands Bundle

Do you have a hole in your gaming life that needs to be filled with Borderlands? Do you love endless RPG's and want something else to play? Humble Bundle has just the thing for you in the new Humble Endless RPG-Lands Bundle featuring: $1 Tier (Borderlands. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut, Wurm Unlimited), $4.97 Tier (Borderlands 2, Endless Legend - Classic Edition & Guild of Dungeoneering) & $10 Tier (Borderlands the Pre-Sequel). And for a couple bucks more you can get both Van Helsing game Soundtracks, which is a nice bonus.

I can't say enough great things about Borderlands beyond the reality that I keep coming back to play these games over... Read All

Awesomenauts Free To Play Gets Massive Update In Brawls & Daily Quests

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Awesomenauts is a really fun 2D sidescrolling take on the MOBA genre that hit things pretty hard when it launched and has been getting massive updates since. This year it went entirely free to play and now is getting a huge update making freemium game progression easier and giving people more things to do.

Brawl of the Week

This latest update also introduces Daily Missions. These missions challenge players to complete matches with a specific type of character, to claim victory in a certain number of matches, or to fulfill another objective. The reward for completing these missions? Sweet, sweet Awesomepoints that players can use to purchase additional characters or... Read All

When I Found You, I Saw Raw Untamed Power - New Last Jedi Trailer!

The new Star Wars The Last Jedi trailer dropped and it's great. It's a bit darker and way more edgier than I was expecting. As I was watching the trailer Luke looked... really on the edge of a breakdown or maybe it's the fact that he's been living as a hermit for a while?

What do you think? I've been watching the new Star Wars movies on opening night for the last 2 years and I plan to do the same here too.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/10/2017 at 04:10am

Holy crap! I've never been so excited for a Star Wars movie. This looks great. I will likely overhype this in my head and be disappointed, but oh well. Can't wait for this one!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 10/10/2017 at 04:24am

TRAILER 2 AND ALREADY DISAPPOINTED! THANKS GEROGE LUCAN!

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 10/10/2017 at 04:46am

Oh shit!

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/10/2017 at 05:30am

Still no Jar Jar?

Travis Admin wrote on 10/10/2017 at 01:21pm

Calling it now: That part at the end of the trailer is clever editing. Rey is actually asking Jar Jar for help.

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Cheerful Ghost Radio Episode 6 - The Best of Both Abrams

On this episode of Cheerful Ghost radio, we discuss a bunch of topics that we couldn't get into the previous episode, including the news that Nintendo is shipping more SNES Classic and NES Classic units than previously planned, JJ Abrams returning to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, Age of Empires IV, and Humble Bundle hitting $100 million in charity donations!

Also be sure to check out our friends at Game Dev's Quest, a podcast about the game development process: http://airpodcast.com/category/gamedevsquest/

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/10/2017 at 04:19pm

The stopping of sales of nes classic makes more sense now that we know the snes classic pretty much uses the same hardware. It would have been nice to see both being made, but they probably wouldn't have met demand with either. I feel like that is the reason they went all in on the snes.

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/10/2017 at 04:40pm

I think you are right. Which is a good thing, like you say, but made little sense to me then. They must be ramping up NES production now or soon to hit next year too. Though I wonder when the NES Classic will come out next year and if they are going to add anything new to it?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 10/10/2017 at 05:20pm

I hope they add the refinements to their output that the SNES Classic has, if nothing else.

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/10/2017 at 05:35pm

Honestly... I don't really notice all that stuff myself but I can't tell the difference in HD audio VS 320k mp3s.

Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member wrote on 10/10/2017 at 08:57pm

If they release anything new, I hope there is a way to update existing classics.

jdodson Admin wrote on 10/10/2017 at 09:19pm

Yeah, right. That might be why they don't do that.

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Mother Brain Destroyed, Pray For True Galaxy Peace! NES Metroid Completed in 3.33.

jdodson gives this an astounding "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

jdodson gives this a "Must Play" on the Ghost Scale

This achieves something special, and it would be a shame to miss it.

"You fulfilled your mission. It will revive peace in space. But, it may be invaded by the Metroid. Pray for a true peace in space!" - Ending screen text to NES Metroid.

Even back in 1986 Nintendo was opening up Metroid for a sequel. It's also kind of strange/fun to see a Nintendo game talk about praying for peace. Who does Samus pray to for peace and what is her belief system? I tried to do some searching to find out and it seems the Metroid Wiki doesn't seem to know either because talking about the Galactic Federation in the Metroidverse they say:

"The specifics of culture, religion, trade, currency, technology, civil rights/liberties, and so on are also unknown."

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