Still looking for Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) gifts? Buy up a couple of these at the price of your choice and you’ll be set.
This newest bundle includes Jamestown, Bit. Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, Shank, Night Sky HD, AND Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story if you purchase it for more than the average (which is currently just about $5). Not too shabby! As always, the money goes towards the developers, Child’s Play, and the American Red Cross.
Get the bundle at HumbleBundle.com. Now who on your gift list is going to love this the most?
Finally! I can show off my love of classic gaming with an athletic-inspired piece of clothing!
In all seriousness, I think this is pretty sweet. And I would totally wear it, except I feel it would be a bit awkward on the ladies. Right? I mean, you’d just be asking for people to press your buttons…
Nintendo Track Jacket: $39.99-43.99 at ThinkGeek.com.
As an avid tumblr..er.. I spend a lot of time looking at pretty pictures of sunsets, cats, celebrities I like, you know; the usual. The other day, however, I stumbled upon a particularly awesome blog I just had to share with you guys. It’s called Gaming Problems.
The blog posts graphics with common gaming problems that anyone who’s ever picked up a controller can relate to.
Here are some of my favorites from the site:
Be sure to check out more or to subscribe to the tumblr!
Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe
Please change your passwords, check your accounts, and stay safe!
The Penny Arcade folks are just full of announcements this week!
PAX East registration is now open for April 6th-8th, 2012 in Boston. It’s Easter weekend, but I still hope to see some of you there! You can register here.
Child’s Play, one of my favorite charities, just announced their 2011 donation drive. Below is some information from their press release on ways to give. Check it out! I’m not sure if I’ll be at their auction this year, but I’ve gone in the past and it’s a lot of fun. Let me know if you’ll be attending!
Since the charity’s establishment in 2003, it has distributed more than $9 million in donations from the videogame community to entertain hospitalized children across the globe.
The annual Child’s Play charity auction will take place on Thursday, Dec. 8th, 2011 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Tickets can be purchased at www.childsplaycharity.org. Passes will cost $145 per person and $5,000 for table sponsors.
“We are very excited to begin another year of Child’s Play and once again show the world that the video game community is altruistic as well as compassionate,” said Kristin Lindsay, Child’s Play. “Since Child’s Play inception we have constantly been surprised by the generosity in both time and money of the community.
I was shown this over the weekend, and I think the message still holds true.
I have to say, I’m actually pretty impressed that they show female gaming/programming representation in the video. But be honest: How many of you don’t even know what a “floppy” is? I feel so old.
Thank goodness this isn’t about me. “Remember that time when we were about to be killed by the boss? And Tara just left because she was frustrated and needed a break? To Tara!”
