Category: video games
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Steam Refunds
Valve just added refunds to Steam. CD Projekt’s Gog and Electronic Arts’ Origin already had similar policies. If you’ve played a game for two or fewer hours, and want your money back within the first two weeks of your purchase? You can get your money back. It’s great. Got an incomplete game in Steam’s Early…
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Tweetbot for Mac 2.0
Mike Beasley on the beautiful new version of Tweetbot for Mac: Tweetbot 2 fully embraces the Yosemite aesthetic that was introduced in OS X last year while still maintaining much of the same functionality and layout with which users are already familiar. Everything has been flattened, and timelines that previously sported a light gray tone…
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Two Game Developers One Premise
Patrick Klepek has this fascinating article covering two developers who come to find they’re working on almost the same premise for a game: Perception, where you play a blind person who taps a cane to see around them, was revealed last week. Soon, an email went around indie studio Tiny Bull. “Panic started to spread…
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We’re All Doomed: Part LXVIII
SourceForge has taken it upon themselves to resurrect “abandoned” projects. Of course, the projects aren’t actually abandoned and have just moved elsewhere so what SourceForge is actually doing is taking free software installers, loading them up with ads, and then shitting them out on SourceForge download servers. You can see the full list of projects…
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Tom Jubert’s Talos Principle Masterplan
Tom Jubert spoiled us with his writing in The Talos Principle, FTL, and The Swapper. Everything he works on is 100% pure gold pressed latinum that might be consumed in a manner not unlike that of a starving teenger wolfing down hot pockets without regard for the ensuing restroom debacle. Each time Jubert’s blog (Plot is…