Publishers and Developers on STEAM.
Recently I have been trying to buy everything on the digital distribution service STEAM. I have begun to contact the publishers/developers of many of the retail games I purchased, and asked them if there is anyway for me to transfer my retail copy of the game, into a digital distribution version.
I have been largely ignored.
However, two of my favourite game companies, Introversion Software and Eagle Dynamics, have responded!
Unfortunately a representative of Eagle Dynamics responded to my e-mail saying that there is no way to transfer my retail copy to a digital distribution copy. That is very unfortunate. =(
I contacted Introversion Software-developers of Uplink, DEFCON, Darwinia, and Multiwinia-for a completely different reason. I had purchased the STEAM versions of their games. After a little research I discovered that two of their games were available on Linux! Awesome! Now I can play them on my laptop! DEFCON was very easy to download from their website, with no hassle. Uplink on the other hand was impossible to download from their website. The reason for this is that DEFCON has an activation key when you install it, but there is no DRM for Uplink.
I signed up on the forums, and asked everyone if there was anyway to get ahold of the Linux client files, since I had purchased it on STEAM. The general response I recieved was either: “You should have bought it from Introversion, and not STEAM,” “You’re SOL,” or “Run it in WINE.” Unsatisfied with these answers I decided to e-mail IS themselves. The next day I had an e-mail in my inbox from a representative named Mark. They offered to send me a retail disk of Uplink since there is no way to get ahold of the Linux client files without purchasing it from their site, or having a retail disk! Score one for proper customer service! Thank you for making my week Mark!
Emulator fun! Futurama… wut?
After a nostalgic conversation, in TeamSpeak, about old video games we used to play as children, I decided I wanted to relive some of those memories. While I knew where my Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color were, I didn’t know where most of my game cartridges were, so I thought I’d go grab an emulator. I’m glad I did! I forgot how much fun these games really are! So far I’ve downloaded a lot of the old Pokemon games (Emerald and Leaf Green are the ones I’m starting with, since I actually haven’t played them), Bomberman Tournemant, and Advance Wars 2 (Advance Wars 1 was awesome, haven’t played the second one yet). Definitely brings back memories of a simpler time.
Although, now I want to go download a bunch of other emulators for old consoles, and play all the old platformers I loved…
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Futurama is one of my favourite shows. Up there with Firefly, Dollhouse, Chuck, and Top Gear. I was so massively dissapointed when I learned of it’s demise on Fox (like all good shows on that channel. Seriously, who the fuck is running the show there???). Over the years my mother collected the DVDs, and I’ve watched them several times. I’ve watched all of the movies, though they aren’t my favourite. When I heard that it was starting back up, I was thrilled! There have now been five episodes, each one more disappointing than the last. It has lost it’s satirical genius, and devolved into blatant attacks on various companies and products. It feels more like South Park, than Futurama. What happened to my beloved show? I will keep watching in the hope that they will revive the true Futurama again, but my hopes are no longer high.