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Steam pokes fun at asteroid, humanity

November 10, 2011 in News, Thoughts

If you logged into Steam in the last few days, you likely saw this ad, in which they poke a little fun at the asteroid ’2005 YU55,’ which passed inside the orbit of the moon on November 8th.

Regardless of its potential threat to humanity, the folks at Steam decided it would be a good chance to have a 33%-off sale on the recently released iD game, Rage, with the coupon code ‘”2005 YU55″ LOL.’ Now, it may just be me, but rubbing the little asteroid’s face in the fact that it just missed us by ‘laughing out loud’ seems to smack a bit of hubris. But hey, if you can’t laugh at potentially hazardous space objects wiping out large groups of people, what can you laugh at?

There’s always next time.

Torchlight (for Mac) on sale, one day only!

August 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

Get it while’s its hot!!

45% off on MacUpdate Promo, a website that’s a one-sale-a-day site for Mac software.

Torchlight is a dungeon crawler brought to you by the same people that made us games like Diablo I &

»Click here!

Portal is FREE!

May 12, 2010 in News

In celebration of Steam finally making its way to Mac, Steam is offering Portal for free until May 24th. Honestly, I’m more excited that I can finally play my Steam games without having to boot into a Windows partition, but hey, getting Portal for free is nothing to sneeze at either.

From Steam:

Portal used to cost money. Until May 24th, it’s free. End of story.

Well, technically speaking, there are some strings attached. Fortunately, they’re entirely decorative. We just like the way they look, swaying in the gentle breeze created by a million people simultanously fainting from shock at the news that Portal is free. Now you have no reason not to try Portal.

“I have a reason,” some of you are probably typing into an angry email. “You see, sir, I own a Mac.”

Well guess what: For the first time ever, Portal is also available for the Mac.

“Capital news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars.”

You’d think that, especially since it actually won over 70 Game of the Year Awards. But, like we keep saying, Portal is free. Free on the Mac. Free on the PC. But only until May 24th. So you only have a few days to decide if your free copy of Portal is worth the price we’re currently charging – which is you ever-so-slightly moving your index finger just barely enough to click the big red “download” button right there to the left.

Machinarium Free – Today only!

April 24, 2010 in News

Jump on this deal quick! I’ve heard great things about Machinarium and after playing the demo, I’m psyched to try the full game – and you can download it from Macgamestore.com for free, today only (April 24th), and Mac only:

This week it is our anual customer appreciation week and we have a few special treats for you every day for the 7 days. Starting today, April 24th, 2010, we will be offering a daily treat, deal, giveaway, prize, etc. Head over to the Macgamestore.com home page every day this week to check out the latest treat. Here’s is the first offer:

Saturday, April 24th – A Free Copy of Machinarium!

Click the following download link to download your free copy of Machinarium

Machinarium Full

It’s apparently customer appreciation week over there, so check them out throughout the week for more deals.