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6 CommentsGOG's Pick 5 Promo lets you bundle Alan Wake, The Witcher and more to save
By Dave Tach on Mar 12, 2013 03.12.13
GOG's Pick 5 Promo sale allows you to select five games from a list of 20 and save on the bundle you create, according to a press release from GOG. The sale includes Windows PC and Mac games and contains the following to pick from: A New Beginning - Final Cut for $2 (regularly $9.99) Alan Wake for $5 (regularly $29.99) Alan Wake's American Nightmare for $3 (regularly $14.99) Back to the Future: The Game for $5 (regularly $24.99) The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for $3 (regularly $14.99) Capsized for $2 (regularly $9.99) Defender's Quest for $3 (regularly $14.99) Deponia for $4 (regularly $19.99) Divinity 2: Developer's Cut for $4 (regularly $19.99) Inquisitor for $3 (regularly $14.99) King's Bounty: Crossworlds GOTY for $5 (regularly $24.99) L...
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115 CommentsHigher calling: The new gospel of Christian games
By Patrick Stafford on Dec 20, 2012 12.20.12
Christian Games Developers Conference Christian Games Developers' Conference Tim Emmerich More than 100 developers gather every year at the Christian Games Developers Conference to discuss how they can make their games better. It's a diverse group, representing five continents in the conference's best year. It's a serious affair. They have volunteers, plenty of discussion. Even matching t-shirts. The conference was founded in 2002 by Tim Emmerich, a soft-spoken engineer who works at HP to pay the bills. He wanted to improve what he thought was a lack of support and experimentation in the Christian games community. "My expectations have been really blown away by the conference," Emmerich says. "I was just expecting 12 in the first year, and we got 30. Now we're...
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6 CommentsPid developers add Easy Mode based on player feedback
By Samit Sarkar on Dec 03, 2012 12.03.12
Pid now offers an Easy Mode in addition to its existing Normal and Hard difficulties, and many of the adjustments were made based on community feedback, developer Might and Delight announced today. The studio redesigned levels, reduced environmental clutter to make navigation easier and shortened boss fights. Might and Delight also tweaked the Normal difficulty level to "[even] out the play experience and [lessen] challenging difficulty spikes," according to a press release from the company. Pid received positive reviews, but its punishing nature, even outside of the Hard difficulty, was a common complaint. Both Easy Mode and the changes to the Normal difficulty are currently available only in the Windows PC version of Pid. A representative for Might and Delight told Polygon that the...
