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Wanted to share with you guys something I had printed to advertise The Cheerful Ghost Roundtable. I'll be handing them out soon and tell you about it in the next couple of days!

http://cheerfulghost.com/roundtable


This looks so fun. I loved Terraria's grappling hooks, but they didn't have these Spider Man physics.

It's updates like this that make me wonder just how much we don't even know about Starbound yet.


In the latest episode of Game Show, Jamin Warren talks about how League of Legends has dealt with trolls. League uses a Tribunal to deal with trolls and it seems to have really impacted the game in a positive way.

When Cheerful Ghost launched I checked out the League of Legends community and it was a cesspool of horrible. Using both positive and negative reinforcements RIOT is doing something that seems to have worked.

As always, another rad episode of Game/Show.


"When we initially designed and implemented the auction houses, the driving goal was to provide a convenient and secure system for trades. But as we've mentioned on different occasions, it became increasingly clear that despite the benefits of the AH system and the fact that many players around the world use it, it ultimately undermines Diablo's core game play: kill monsters to get cool loot. With that in mind, we want to let everyone know that we've decided to remove the gold and real-money auction house system from Diablo III.

We feel that this move along with the Loot 2.0 system being developed concurrently with Reaper of Souls will result in a much more rewarding... Read All


Interesting video covering the history of Half-life and Valve. Much has been said about both topics but this video covers them well including who was the inspiration for Gordon Freeman.


Gabe Newell gave a rousing talk at Linux Con today. He talked more about Valve's strategy with games, Windows, consoles and Linux. It is all shown in the video above(warning, it was recorded and put on YouTube so it isn't perfect).

A few note worthy bits from the talk:


  • Valve is announcing hardware next week

  • Valve is sinking resources into Linux in terms of development in SDL, LLVM & a Linux debugger

  • They are working on something in mobile

  • Valve wants to unify the mobile, PC and living room experience so they are not all different

  • They want the future of technology to be built on open technologies



All of that sounds great and I am very interested in seeing what... Read All


So much to love in this trailer. There's so much stuff we've never seen before, it almost looks like a sequel.

User thomar on reddit has a great breakdown of all the new stuff you can see from the trailer: http://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/1mh7uk/terraria_12_trailer_spoilers/cc97xfv

I'm so excited for this. Half a month!

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I just pushed a new update to the site upgrading it to use Boostrap 3. As with any upgrade, some site breakage may occur so if you see anything amiss let me know.

That said, the site should look much better on phones, tablets and desktops now.

http://getbootstrap.com/


Jon & Sean from Analgesic Productions released a Anodyne Remix Album on Bandcamp under the "name your price" model. I love the Anodyne score and this remix album compliments it well.

http://seagaia.bandcamp.com/album/anodyne-remix-album

Blizzard has collected the winners of the Blizzard Gamescom 2013 cosplay contest. The winner this year was Ralph Z, a male Barb.

http://us.battle.net//d3/en/blog/10737565#best

Eldritch is a interesting new 3D Lovecraftian FPS from two former EA developers. The has a very unique style and has been making some waves in the indie community.

http://www.eldritchgame.com/

Crawl is a neat 2D retro styled Zelda/Ninja Turtles hack-n-slash with... Read All


Treasure Adventure World is the follow up to the free PC game, Treasure Adventure Game. Featuring hand drawn art and a large open world, Treasure Adventure World looks to up the ante considerably.

This game is being published by Chucklefish, the creators of Starbound and will initially ship on PC only.

http://treasureadventureworld.com/pre-order/