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The Cheerful Ghost Roundtable Ep. 8: The Mix Up

This was a special episode of the Cheerful Ghost Roundtable as @CapnCurry and @Travis were out hunting Vampires that sparkle. We talk a bit about the games we are playing and dive in to some awesome game news.

We give our thoughts on the new Starbound Beta and just how much of it we will play. We both break down some new Steam Machine news and Valve's promise to not release SteamOS exclusives. We round things off with some PS4 happenings as well as some awesome games on Kickstarter right now.

As always, if you don't watch and subscribe to your YouTube channel, Mario needs to go to one more castle to find the Princess.

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Terraria 1.2

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Super Meat Boy Comes to Linux on Steam and Gets a Mac Update

Recently Super Meat Boy on Steam was updated to add Linux as a platform and refresh the Mac port to fix some bugs and get it working on newer Macs. The port and fixes were done by everyones favorite Linux port guru Ryan Gordon. To celebrate the games 3rd anniversary and its recent Mac and Linux love it is 80% off on Steam right now.

Ryan Gordon recently posted a bit about the update:

"- Linux version now available on Steam. If you already own the game for Windows or Mac on Steam, you get the Linux version for free right now. Otherwise, your three dollars gets you three platforms of Super Meat Boy, plus SteamOS support some day.
- Now using SDL2, which means...
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Interview with Legend of Dungeon Composer David Dirig

Legend of Dungeon tops the list of awesome games i've played this year. The game brings a fresh face to the rouge-like genre while keeping it true to its most basic dungeon exploration elements. One part of the mix that makes the game work so well is its score. I was able to contact David Dirig, the composer for The Legend of Dungeon score and he agreed to talk with me about it.

jdodson: When you started the process of creating the music for Legend of Dungeon, what was the sound and tone you were going for?

David Dirig: -When I started the project I wanted to maintain a very strict ancient/traditional sound. I had a very limited palette of instruments and sounds that I... Read All

Ben Prunty Posts The Title Track for SCALE

Ben Prunty, the composer extraordinaire behind FTL and the upcoming game SCALE posted the title track on Sound Cloud. It's a very moving piece rocking some really great qualities I hope to hear in the final game score.

SCALE is 11 days away from its Kickstarter conclusion and isn't funded yet. If the game seems like something you want to see made, kick it!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188957169/scale

If you need to placate more of your Ben Prunty fix, check out our interview with him about everything rad:

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1552

How To Beat Link to the Past In Under 4 Minutes

I have added learning this speedrun to my list of awesome things I need to do before the year is over. It's not too hard to do and is pretty incredible.

If I had more time, I always thought getting pretty heavy into speed running would be a fun thing to do. I imagine the joy of finding a new faster way to beat a game would be pretty incredible.

Jonathan Blow: The Medium is the Message

"Jonathan Blow is an independent video game developer best known as the creator of Braid. He’s been developing a new game called The Witness with a team of 3D modelers, programmers, and architects since 2009. It will be released when it is done, hopefully in late 2013. He’s interested in pushing gaming to its full realization as an art form and his talk is about the unique and exciting properties of the medium of video games, and ways in which forward-thinking designers are pushing the medium."

Creative Mornings is a really awesome thing that happens in Portland. A few months ago they got Jonathan Blow to give a talk and I was signed up to attend. Then I forgot to set... Read All

New Super Time Force Trailer Explains Rewind Time

Capybara Games just released a new trailer for it's upcoming game Super Time Force. The trailer uses hand drawn time lapse to work its magic. The trailer spends quite a bit of time explaining how the time travel part segment of the game works to create a single player co-op experience. You should watch the trailer to see it for yourself but the idea is you play the game up to a point and rewind time and teleport in another character. What you have done up to the rewind start point is saved and you can start afresh with the new character playing alongside the other.

Super Time Force will initially release as an XBox exclusive. Heres hoping the exclusivity window isn't... Read All

Take a Turn As The Alien in Paradise Lost: First Contact

Back this on Kickstarter!

" In a remote desert, an unidentified object falls from the skies. A research organization known as G.E.R. has tracked and found the mysterious meteor: a capsule of organic material that brings an unknown life-form to our planet from the depths of space. Here begins the story of this impossible being, as it attempts to escape and survive on this strange, hostile world that we call home."

Paradise Lost: First Contact is a stealth escape game where you play as an alien attempting to escape a hostile science base. The Kickstarter video looks incredible and I seriously encourage you to check it out. I really dig the gameplay they show off in the video and enjoy the... Read All

Blizzard Classic Game Blackthorne Available For Free

If you checked your Battle.net game downloads lately you may have noticed that Blizzard recently made its classic Super Nintendo game Blackthorne available as a free PC download. If you were curious about checking out this Blizzard classic, now is your chance.

I played Rock N Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings but I haven't tried Blackthorne yet. What are you thoughts on this one? Interested in checking it out now that it's free?

Hope they release the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans for free. Haven't played that game since I had a DOS machine.

https://us.battle.net/account/download/

Or download it direct here:

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Great News Everybody: The Witcher 3 Will Come DRM Free!

After the rocky Witcher 2 DRM rollout issues it seems CD Project RED is ditching DRM completely for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I laud the move and in a nice set of events they are taking time to take shots are DRM in general and offer some great rationalizations as to why DRM is a bad thing for people that buy games.

The issue of DRM being appreciated by gamers is pretty over and done, but it seems some companies are holding fast to a very old policy of treating paying customers badly. In the video CD Project RED states that they are in the business of making life long customers and some people may lack the funds or ability to become paying customers at at some point... Read All