Hey everyone, in the interest of giving everyone enough notice, I wanted to announce the next videochat will be at 4PM EST on January 3rd. It will be on twitch again, located here:

http://www.twitch.tv/rossbroadcast/

I may switch and use a different videochat service later on, but I need more time to test other ones and I wanted to make the announcement ASAP to give people plenty of notice.

Upon user suggestions, this next chat will be more structured than the previous ones. I’ll start out with announcements again, but then I’ll start answering questions or discuss topics that people can submit ahead of time. If there’s something you’d like to hear me talk about, either leave a post in the comments to this post, or else email [email protected] with your question or topic you want discussed. I’ll try and cover as many questions / topics as I can during the live chat and try to respond to any additional stuff in the chat. This is still an evolving thing, but I think will get more refined as time goes on. Also for those wondering, I’m still using my old email address for normal emails, this new one is simply for contemporary events like this.

In the meantime, I’m working on the videos, expect the first Christmas episode in a couple days!

Hey everyone, I have another screenshot contest this time with a lot of games to give away! I sometimes receive game offers whether I’m interested in them or not, so rather than have them go to waste, you have a chance to win some of them. Most of these aren’t top-tier games, they’re all games I either already have copies of or aren’t particularly interested in, but hopefully some of you out there will enjoy them. All games are digital copies for PC either for Steam or Humble Bundle codes.

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RULES:
-Submit an interesting screenshot from any game either by posting in the comments to this post, or else emailing it to [email protected] (external links are fine).
-You can submit a maximum of 3 screenshots per person.
-Only one game can be won per contestant, so as to maximize the number of people who get games.
-You have until midnight EST of Dec. 21st to submit a screenshot. You can try and submit one late, but you may not make it.
-Winners will be announced on Dec. 22nd.
-Winners will get their pick of which game they want until there are none left. So 1st place gets 1st choice, 2nd place 2nd choice, etc.
-If a winner does not claim which game they want within 24 hours of being contacted by email or private message, they will get perpetually bumped in line behind the next person.
-While I think these all will work, since these were all gifted, there’s no guarantee that all the games are working, since I can’t check them.

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TIPS:
Here are some characteristics of screenshots that are more likely to win (note: they probably shouldn’t have ALL of these):
+Screenshots that seem to raise a lot of questions
+Screenshots that seem like there’s some sort of story behind them
+Impressive action
+Slapstick humor
+Something surreal
+Something I find funny

Some characteristics of screenshots that probably WON’T win:
-ONLY something scenic without anything extra
-Screenshots you can’t appreciate unless you’re familiar with the game it was taken from, or have a lot of context
-High Scores or kill/death ratios
-Toilet or sex pose humor without something more clever to it

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THE GAMES:
Here’s a list of all the games so far. If you have any extra games to contribute for the contest, just email [email protected] and we’ll update the list later (please submit all game contributions by no later than midnight EST December 20th):

ACTION:
Betrayer
Bioshock
Blast Em!
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition
Daikatana
DmC: Devil May Cry
Fist Puncher
Half-Life 2*
Hitman: Absolution
Left 4 Dead (GOTY Edition)*
Madballs in... Babo:Invasion
Medal of Honor
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes*
Miner Wars 2081
Mirror’s Edge
Natural Selection 2
Orcs Must Die! (GOTY Edition)
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
Prototype 2
Remember Me
Sanctum: Collection
Scourge: Outbreak
Star Trek (2013)
Syder Arcade (2 copies)
Symphony (2 copies)
Vertical Drop Heroes HD
Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries

ADVENTURE:
Broken Sword 2
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon
Gold Rush! Classic
Hack ‘n’ Slash*
Ittle Dew
Night of the Rabbit
Residue: Final Cut
Shivah: Kosher Edition
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
To the Moon
Trauma

FIGHTING:
Vanguard Princess

FLIGHT:
Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition

HORROR:
Dead Space (2 copies)
Eleusis
Harvester*
Kraven Manor (2 copies)
Outlast
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Revelations

MMO:
Sirius Online

OTHER:
Bermuda
MirrorMoon EP
Mountain
Proteus
Restaurant Empire II
Super Splatters
Tabletop Simulator*
The Beginner’s Guide*
Worms Crazy Golf
Worms Pinball

PLATFORMER:
140
Braid
Cave Story Plus
Duke Nukem (1991)
Dustforce DX
FEZ (2 copies)
Freedom Fall
Freedom Planet
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
La-Mulana
LIMBO
Muffin Knight
Risk of Rain
Savant - Ascent (2 copies)
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Super Meat Boy
Thomas Was Alone
Type:Rider
VVVVVV
Windforge

PUZZLE:
Bridge Constructor
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
Contraption Maker
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Edge
English Country Tune
Gunspell (2 copies)
Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey
RUSH
The Swapper
World of Goo*
Worms Blast

RACING:
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Ridge Racer™ Unbounded Bundle

RPG:
8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey Remastered Edition
Anachronox
Bardbarian
Coin Crypt
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Cthulhu Saves the World
DarkEnd (2 copies)
Deadly Sin
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Dragon Age: Origins
Evoland
Fallout 3 (basic edition) (2 copies, 1 requires Steam username)
Fallout 3: New Vegas (basic edition)
Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition
Pixel Piracy (2 copies)
Sid Meier’s Pirats! Gold Plus (Classic)
Survivalist
UnEpic

STRATEGY:
Beware Planet Earth!
Cities in Motion 2
Civilization V
Cubetractor
Endless Space - Emperor Edition
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
Galcon Fusion
Kingdom Rush (2 copies)
Nuclear Dawn*
Populous
Skyward Collapse
Spacebase DF-9*
Total War: ROME II - Caesar in Gaul (DLC)
Tropico 3 Gold
Worms
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (with Slingshot and Elite Soldier packs)*

*Games with an asterisk will require knowing your Steam username in order to receive a copy.

Thanks to Dean Heitland, “Doopliss Suplex”, “Dragonbeon .”, “Erick”, “Explosive Vomit”, James Benefield, Luke Amarok, “Milokot”, “Nemex”, Nikita Bornenko, “piotyrholbion .”, “Presence Eternal”, Sean “Nz17” Robinson, “Sum Dood”, Tyler Cronrath, Victor Nicholoulias and “Zutaradimus” for the games!

(List last updated: December 20, 2015, 1:50PM EST)

Here’s the second installment of the live videochats from Twitch. This one wasn’t as full of people, likely due to the time. I tried to vary it to get different crowds, but in the future I think I’ll try and target times when more people are around. Nothing super important in this one, mostly just that you can expect more videos, I answer questions on a lot of different topics, and try to get some help and input on things. The format is the same as last time since I didn’t have time to organize something better, but hopefully the next chat will be more structured.

Anyway, this video is unlisted so as not to crowd out the others, but I’ll try and make it easier to access in time. You’re of course welcome to share the link anywhere you want.

Subtitles: English

Believe it or not, I was hoping to have this out a little bit before Thanksgiving, but this is what happens when a video turns out more complex than I planned for AND I get sleep. A lot of the time involved with this episode was getting to the points I needed to in order to show different parts of it. I had a lot of previous saved games for Dungeon Siege, but some were missing and some I was simply unable to get working again due to some mod dependency weirdness I guess. In any event, while this is hardly an obscure game, I consider it a real cornerstone in terms of influential games for me. It’s all laid out in the video.

Right now my plan is to have two more Game Dungeons this month, along with an extra video. I’ll also be having the monthly video chat on the 6th and post it up here afterwards (though it will be unlisted on Youtube).

This is just a quick update to announce that the next videochat will be at 10AM EST on Dec. 6th. I wanted to switch the time and day of the week to give other people a chance to join in the chat who weren’t able to join the last one. It will be on twitch again here:

http://www.twitch.tv/rossbroadcast

Several people gave me other suggestions for a better chat format, but I haven’t had time to look it over very thoroughly. We’ll probably come up with a better system in the following months, but in the meantime, I figure any communication is better than no communication.

On another note, I was hoping to have it done already, but it will be another couple days before the next Game Dungeon is done. I’ll put it up as soon as I’m finished with it, but unlike October, the episodes definitely take longer when I also sleep. For December, I hope to have two more Game Dungeon episodes and an additional bonus video.