Happy Halloween from Steam and GOG with a slew of cheap scary games but where`s the Pumpkin?

Since there are no great horror films of late , why not attempt to scare yourself silly , or at least save yourself some money with Steam and GOG`s sales .


The bargain of bargains in both deals is the Vampire the Masquerade series , available at a ridiculously cheap $2.99 from GOG , and also consider Sanitarium , and Realms of the Haunting.


Of course this being Halloween thegameveda is naturally drawn to Pumpkins , and my favourite game with a vague connection to a Pumpkin , and THE GREATEST game to play on Halloween , is ,not the DLC for Infamous 2 , but of course , you guessed it Cauldron by as luck would have it Pumpkin studios ...

So now tell me isn`t 80`s colour clash more frightening than all of today`s id Tech 5 , Frostbite 2 and Unreal Engine PhysX Eyefinity ,eye popping 3D sfx put together... ?

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The finest games sale this year is.... Good Old Games .. and you have 1 day left to go get some classics

We love Steam , deals like LA Noire Complete Edition 75% off would be great if we hadn't bought the game on consoles and onlive too , seriously by now yours truly has built up over 300 odd games on Steam , short of buying the odd DLC or crying at the discount on games once bought at full price , or complete download apathy it really does not excite at the level Steam used too  , similarly  all the cool deals onlive has to offer have been jumped at , and as far as retail ,  an ocean of deliveries is about to hit my door when this holiday finally ends and post returns to normal . 


These are great times if you have money to burn on cheap games , but 2011s finest games sale is none of the above  , the sale where I spent most money this year is GOG  , with full PC classics and obscurities cheaper than iOS and Android Apps , most of which the retail versions of which if you have them are now collectors items.


So if Planescape Torment , Baldurs Gate, Never Winter , Sanitarium , Freespace , Another World , Realms of The Haunting , Zork , Total Annihilation , Ultima , Fallout , Broken Sword , Wing Commander  mean anything to you then you have around 24 hours or so to take advantage of the GOG 50% sale  . 

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Worried your 30K Rig won't run the Star Citizen menu screen? Well why not buy and play EVERY Wing Commander and Privateer game for around $12 ?

Bored polishing your Star Citizen ID card ? Nonplussed at the delayed " Combat " Module ..? Sick of duct taping toilet roles together in an effort to win Chairman Roberts latest space ship design-a-thon?

There is as the cliche goes another hope...


Back in the day Chris and Erin Roberts would require the utmost devotion from Space Opera Combat Supplicants  ... the first thing above all would be the purchase of THE most expensive and beige PC hardware existing at that time ..  then only then once you added in the cost of a flight stick or two..not forgetting to hook it up to your Soundblaster card .. would you be deemed worthy of playing the technical marvels I am about to promote the sale of to you ...

this is not the view from a T 800 but a red filtered poignant intro shot .... I like to call the calm before the storm ...

For today  only (till the next sale ) you can OWN the entire Wing Commander Series on PC .. at 75% off  .. that's around $12 in 2013 money .. and this includes all your favourite PC game FMV stars ... like Biff from Back To the Future , him from Episode IV V VI ( and maybe IX ..or is it XI?) and the ever crazy Malcom Mcdowell as well as of course a very young Clive Owen ...Brian Blessed, Jurgen Prochnow , John Hurt and Christopher Walken .. and that last lots' just some of the cast that Erin Roberts got together for the FMV of Privateer 2 ... you see some shots of here 

Marvel at the power of Erin Roberts ... who got Clive Owen to wear eye liner... in a PC game FMV segment something which the great Spike Lee could not make him do .. .

Today of course we can run all these classics on our phones or the most humble of smart fridge displays ... 

These are pieces of collective gaming history that no gamer should be without , not least because, their production  costs alone destroyed what passed for PC gaming development at that time ... with hype and over blown dev team and media Pizza consumption and spiralling private investor costs rendering such games design unsustainable and eventually the 100+ strong developers with their ever expanding Pizza consumption.. unemployable... until ...that is until 20 or so years later they surfaced with Kickstarter backed projects... of which Star Citizen is the most anticipated and well backed ... by fans at least if not publishers..

Privateer 2 is a game where John Hurt gets to be your bar tender .. don't worry in the game you will see him in close up.. 

All very interesting  .. as our Chris has us dreaming/saving up for  18K triple 4K display PC Rigs and Virtual Reality headsets ...for Star Citizen the spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series ... 

the game runs depressingly slowly on my 10K rig .. just what do you have to do get a Roberts bros game running ? ..only kidding... all these games need slowing down ..

The causes of  the Wing Commander series, of which I include Privateer here ...  great successes and failures, which were to be honest not entirely due to an ever expanding lunch time Pizza budget,  rest in the series you can now pick up from Good Old Games... 

I hope the team at Roberts Space Industries ...many of them  like the rest of us now with PCs and smart Fridges able to run these games ... 20 years on ... take some time to reflect on the lessons that can be learnt from re playing these games .. 

Perhaps ...in their lunch breaks ... waiting for the pizza  to be delivered .. hopefully not as long as we are left waiting for our Star Citizen combat modules ... 

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