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GOGcom Winter Sale Starts by Giving Away Fallout & Fallout 2

War might not ever change, but sometimes the price of games change so much you must pick them up. GOG.com is launching its holiday sale with a bang and is releasing Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics free for a limited time.

Nab the games quick as your change to pick them up dries up in one day.

http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013

Where you are there, checkout the other awesome holiday sales on GOG.com games. Tis the season to spend like the end of the world is near.

Steam Machine beta boxes shipping, Steam OS Friday!

The Steam Universe group has updated with new info about various upcoming events. The 300 lucky recipients will get their boxes very soon-- they're shipping Friday-- and Steam OS will be made available that day.

Check your email today at 2PST to see if you're one of the lucky 300!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570

Link Put Down His Sword and Walked Away

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http://www.dorkly.com/comic/57350/the-legend-of-zelda-a-break-between-worlds

Awesome Link comic I read on Dorkly today I wanted to share. Funny, sad and true all at the same time.

Don't walk away Link, you need to save Hyrule... again.

Interview with Starbound Composer, Curtis Schweitzer

After the Starbound beta hit, like many of you, I played the heck out of it. Now that there have been a few game patches and people have tried out the beta, I wanted to ship a few questions over to our friend Curtis Schweitzer, who composed the game score. I was happy to hear that he was interested in talking with us about how things have gone since launch and what we can expect going forward.

jdodson: The Starbound beta has shipped and the reaction seems to be quite good. Right now, Starbound is the number 3 played game on Steam and all those people are listening to your music. How are you processing all of that right now?

Curtis Schweitzer: I'm just enjoying seeing... Read All

Doom, One of The Greatest Games of All Time Turns 20

After hearing about "the most evil murder simulator ever made" and noticing the shareware version on the shelf for a few bucks, I gave Doom a shot. The graphics, immersion and gameplay blew my mind. The Demons snarling and grunting was really unnerving coming through my sound blaster. Shooting something and watching it explode was extremely satisfying. I also had fun connecting the game over BBS's and LAN for deathmatch.

Doom is one of those games that stamped my brain with what games could be and as such have a huge love for it. When Doom II came out I was very happy with the double barreled shotgun and new creepy levels.

I hope Doom continues to live on and wish iD... Read All

GOG Moving to a Better Refund Policy in the Digital Age

"Game doesn't work for you? Contact our support (http://www.gog.com/support) and tell us to fix it! But what if they cannot find a solution? If such a rare event should occur, we'll give you your money back. Simple as that. If you buy a game on GOG.com and find that it doesn't work properly on your system, and our support cannot fix the problem, you get a full refund. It's a worldwide guarantee, and you have whole 30 days after the purchase date, to contact us about the refund.

There's even more! If you bought a game by mistake, or simply changed your mind about a purchase, you can get a full refund within 14 days, as long as the game wasn't downloaded."

I mention this... Read All

No Man's Sky trailer

Indie studio Hello Games (who brought us the delightful Joe Danger) dropped this trailer at VGX. The concept reminds me a lot of Starbound, but in full rendered 3D, and including space battles.

First off, this looks absolutely gorgeous. Second, I'm glad to see more exploration-heavy games like this. Procedurally generated planets are sure to give you a ton of replay value.

There's a site up at http://www.no-mans-sky.com/ without much content yet, but I'll be keeping my eye on it. I can't wait to hear more info about this one.

Tales from the Borderlands announced at VGX

Telltale Games, the studio behind some amazing adventure games like last year's The Walking Dead series, showed a teaser trailer for Tales from the Borderlands at VGX last night. This is a totally new style of game for the Borderlands series, but I could definitely get behind a more story-driven look at Pandora.

Penny Arcade Report is shutting down

http://hw1.pa-cdn.com/par/img/editorial/parDone.jpg

This is really sad news. I have been a fan of PAR since they started two years ago.

The post by Ben Kuchera doesn't go into the details about why they're ending their run, but alas, it's over.

Ben, feel free to come post over here :)

See more here: http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/it-was-a-great-two-years-but-now-its-time-to-say-goodbye

EDIT: Penny Arcade proper posted some info about this, saying that it was to streamline things, but it isn't entirely clear.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/12/06/changes

Wil Wheaton Lends His Voice to Double Fine's Broken Age

"Double Fine Adventure" AKA Broken Age is nearing its first half launch and as the release draws near, they are dropping more info nuggets along the way. One such gem features the vocal stylings of the always amazing Wil Wheaton! I grew up watching Wil Wheaton on Star Trek and it's awesome to see him continue his career past the final frontier.

Broken Age will drop on PC, Mac and Linux in 2014.