Steam Sales...dangerous time of the year for me, as I tend to 'stock' up on games and spend...well...way too much without meaning to.
So far I've already spend far more than I wanted to on Witcher 2 for the ladyfriend I'm seeing; Alan Wake and Dead Island as I'd been meaning to grab these for a while.

So thats already more than I wanted to spend, and we're not even half way there yet. I've got a horrid suspicion if more games I want come up with big money offs this may once again be an extremely painful £100+ sale.

I need this in my life, since i'm so obsessed with the anime right now.

Sadly I don't think this game will ever see the outside of Japan so I might have to buy it and just press buttons randomly til I win XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_vqrsmnmVA

I've been getting a real handheld game craving lately which is so unlike me. I'm planning on getting Spirit Tracks at some point (I hear it's the better of the DS Zeldas) but I'm also looking at 999: 9 Hours, 9 Something, 9 something else. I've heard people speak of it in a positive manner around here, would anyone care to enlighten me a bit about what makes it so good?

It's been a long while since I played it so bare with me here, this'll probably sound a bit off to those who have a fresher recollection of it.

It's pretty much a visual novel text adventure with puzzles thrown in. The puzzles aren't that challenging, but do give you some thought. The real draw is the plot - which is scripted, written and translated really well. There are multiple endings (6 to be precise, you can only get the true ending by getting a certain other ending before hand though.) along different branching paths. I don't want to say too much about it, as I can only really remember the really spoilerific stuff, but the atmosphere for the setting is totally spot on, with the great soundtrack going a huge distance to help that mood. So if the general premise sounds interesting then I'd say go for it.

If anyone else has a better way to describe it then please help me out here, currently flailing a bit and it's reminding me to replay 999 before Virtue's Last Reward comes out!

http://www.facebook.com/TeamYu/posts/137535459722874

A solid Shenmue twitter based campaign! Let's Go! Something actually worth "tweeting" about.

Cool thanks. I'll see if I can give it a rent or something first.

So, who took part in the #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense twitter campaign today? It's still ongoing, so there's still time to send a tweet!

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*wipes a lone tear from eye*

I can't be bothered making a Tokyo Game Show topic just yet, so i'll do it in the morning. But in the meantime, i thought i'd link the latest trailer for Layton vs Gyakuten here. Kudos if notice the judge(hard to miss him)

Was at Eurogamer Expo London yesterday with the missus. Wasn't bad, although I found some of the stuff a bit hard to get excited over. Think her favourite game was Aliens hehe

Was at the EVE Online meet yesterday (with a load of devs over for Eurogamer). Good fun and much beer was had.

Nintendo are releasing the limited edition Pikachu 3DS XL later this year, in limited quantities.

The Wii U is also out later this year.

F--- you Nintendo. F--- you. I can't afford both.

OMG NEW PIKACHU 3DS XL.

But I already have the Zelda one... and there are no games... but it's SOOOOO CUUUTE...

Kid Icarus Uprising, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario 3D Land, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy. Then there's Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward out in November, Paper Mario Sticker Star out in December, then there's Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked out by the end of the year. Also, lots of cool downloadable only titles like Pullblox (with its sequel Fallblox in November), Liberation Maiden and Dillon's Rolling Western ad let's not forget Pokémon Dream Radar which can be used with Black 2/White 2.
"No games" wut?

Speaking of 3DS games though...Square Enix have said that they currently have no plans to localise "Bravely Default: Flying Fairy" for the western market. So "Operation Brave" has been launched on Facebook and Twitter (you can find their pages by searching "Operation Brave" or using the Twitter hash tag #OperationBrave). Basically asking people to really bug Square Enix on the Bravely Default FB/Twitter pages and Square Enix USA/EU's twitters.

http://www.change.org/petitions/sumo-di ... ransformed

Vote! Vote for the love of Shenmue!

I thought i'd leave this in here as for some reason, i can't see a Steam topic, and this isn't exactly just a "who's who" thing. I have 6 DOTA2 invites to get rid off. It was 3 up until earlier today, then suddenly i got bombarded with another three from valve earlier. So i'm willing to offer them to you guys if you want any. First come, first serve basis, but yeah, just let me know. AngelArbalest is my steam id if you haven't got it to ask for one via steam. So yeah, please feel free to ask to claim one.