"Today the new IndieGameStand launched featuring Gnomoria, a sandbox village-building game by Robotronic Games. IndieGameStand, for those who do not know, features a new indie game every 96 hours, which they offer in the pay what you want format, much like the Indie Humble Bundle. Part of the price paid for the game goes to a featured charity chosen by the developer, which so happens to be the Red Cross Foundation for this Indie Game Stand. The games presented are available DRM-free for no hassle downloading. But the game, yes, you would like to hear about that."
Gadgets 360 says: "Steam might be the biggest marketplace for PC games out there, but it isn't the only one you can use. Recent developments have confirmed that it isn't infallible either, so it might be a good idea to check out the alternatives out there and see what works for you"
No no no! Don't spread Steam hate. If Steam ever went bust because people were lead away from it... God, the amount of money I and many, many others spent on games... I know they said that they have a plan to make sure that no one loses all their purchased games should the service fall through, but I'm just not confident they'd be able to make good on that promise in the throes of financial crisis - I think it'd be messy.
That's not to say we shouldn't demand that they make their site more secure, and that we should excuse or pardon any corner-cutting, but instigating the fall of Steam will ultimately hurt a great many people.
Because one article will destroy steam :/
The more competition, the better the deals for us the gamers so i don't see the issue here.
These things always begin small.
It's common to see 75%-80% off during summer and winter sales - seems like a good deal to me. No competition necessary. Plus there are week long deals. I'm happy with Steam - the sales are very generous, and I think it would be greedy to ask for even more generosity. Sure someone could come along and undercut Steam, but most Steam users, at this point, aren't going to abandon Steam and risk contributing to its collapse, causing them to probably lose all the games they bought. I'll pay a little bit extra if it means I can prevent the total loss of all the games I've bought over the years.
Marcus Estrada writes: "What happens once a game has succeed on Kickstarter, made its way through development, and is just about ready to launch? Unfortunately, there's not a super easy way to take all those backer email accounts and send each a copy (especially if you're using some form of DRM and/or distributing download codes). Often, folks end up having to send emails one by one -- sometimes running into spam filter issues along the way. It's possible that this will now be a thing of the past if a new tool introduced by IndieGameStand becomes popular."
Humble Bundles weekly bundle this week is Simulators 4, and it includes Out Of The Park Baseball 15, Kill The Bad Guy, Real Boxing, Emergency 2014, Gnomoria(Early Access), and Microsoft's Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition.
For only $1 You can get OOTPB15, Kill The Bad Guy, and Real Boxing. If you pay at least $6 you get those 3 and Emergency 2014, and Gnomoria(Early Access). If you pay at least $10 you get those 5 and Microsoft's Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition.
The Charities that will be supported are:
Electronic Frontier Foundation which is a non-profit organization that specializes in protecting your privacy and free expression in the digital world.
American Red Cross who help out all over the world with a variety of disasters, and do all kinds of work like helping people donate blood to save others. They do a lot and will use the money donated through HumbleBundle.com for a lot of good.
Some really good games in there and there is a nice slider that lets you ch...
