A Holiday 2 for 1: Two News Items, One Post

Today, seeing as how we'll be silent tomorrow and the day after (someone's gotta drink the egg nog, right?), we thoughts we'd give you a holiday present with two very note-worthy news stories.

The first one would be this item out of Boston, where a teenage boy refused to go to sleep for fear of not being able to play Grand Theft Auto for a couple of hours (we must reference the Warcraft kid, and ask if it isn't his mother finally begging for help here?). So what did mom do? Call the cops and have them try to convince her child that the world won't explode if he just sleeps for a few hours.

No word on whether the mother or the cops were actually successful or if someone gave the kid a nice Klonopin and brandy, but, either way you chose to game it this week (and we all know we're gonna be getting brand new gaming treats) try spending as much quality time with fam as with your WiiMote. Otherwise you'll get the cops called on you.

And if you're already a pretty measured gamer, AND, love a good deal, the rumors of a Steam holiday sale are true. Our second news story is of the "up to 80% off" sale going on at the PC gaming retail service right now. 

 

The sale samples the store's greatest hits of the year and is only going on for a limited time. So rush here as soon as possible and grab as much content before the new batch of '10 release hit Steam's shelves. 

Fully story on sale at Joystiq.

"Games On Demand For Windows" Launches

If you missed last week's post re: announcement of Microsoft's "Games On Demand For Windows", then you missed finding out that Microsoft has entered the 21st century in style by officially creating a premiere digital distribution service.

Yesterday's launch of Games on Demand will now, not only, make the connection between PC game and player that much more expedient, but, will provide massive competition for Valve's "Steam" service, as the independent distributor has been the only one to service PC games digitally so far.

If you happen to find yourself using the service here on out, be careful that it is new, and as with all new software, its just past the beta stage and may have some glitches and unwanted bugs. Use the following link for assistance if need be.

Helping Developers Shift MMO Platforms

Via this article from mocoNews we found an interesting snippet about a company called Good Games Productions, who's main focus is to help developers of PC-based MMO extend their concepts to be featured on both Facebook and iPhone.

 

"Good" is the brainchild of game industry vet Grantley Day and, aside from already having a small development team, has a roster of games and developers they're working with.

mocoNews says, "It’s a cost-effective business model, since the startup won’t have to invest the millions up front currently needed to build a game from scratch—not to mention market it in the hopes of growing a huge audience," and we agree.

An interesting change, merging of platforms, we can't wait to see if this type business model takes off or if developers create in-house teams to port their own MMO's to other platforms.

Top 5 Glitchiest PC Games

Just in time for you to begin deciding what game or games to spend all of tomorrow with, Game Central has reviewed the Top 5 PC games with the most glitches, so, you know what not to trip over while you're cruising through a full day of turkey and gaming bliss. The order go as such:

1. SkyNET 

Too non-sensical and erratic, half-finished 

2. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 

"Artificially difficult" and illogical. Tons of audio errors and inactive game buttons

 

3. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor 

Slow, stuttering, plus uninstall caused potential destruction of system files

 

4. Divine Divinity 

Amateurish concept, shrieking noise when game freezes, too many post-release fixit patches to count

      

5. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura 

Broken quests, frequent crashes, need we say more?

 

So, this Thanksgiving holiday play our newest, most brilliantly designed game to date: Decades. It's a PC game (also available for iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and PC) that won't leave you frustrated and wanting to tear your hair out. Instead, you'll be cruising happily through historical and pop-culture trivia, while enjoying beautiful, fast-paced graphics. Check it out here: www.decades.com. It's addicting and FUN.

Full article from Game Central here.

Decades Slays, All The Others Just Stand By In Awe

Check out this review of Dungeon and this review of the new lame for dead promo Left 4 Dead if you need to find out about games and apps that are a little behind the times or just plain confusing. Check out THIS ANNOUNCEMENT if you need to find out that one of the brightest, best, most multi-platform games this year just became available for iTunes, Android, PC and Facebook.

We've JUST announced Decades for all four gaming platforms and that makes the game one of our widest releases to date!!!

If you have any sense in you you'll click over to www.decadesthegame.com to find out more and if you're preferential of one platform over another, here are the separate links for access to each one:

On Facebook: apps.facebook.com/decadesgame

On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/webobjects/mzstore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=329690750&mt=8

On Android: www.decadesthegame.com/android

On PC platform: www.decadesthegame.com/playnow 

Decades is brilliant, addicting, and truly truly fun. Enjoy and thank us later!