Hi everyone,

I spent the last few days creating Berrybugs for Toki Tori 2! They will look much better when the game is released, but for now this is all we need to start prototyping!

Check out the new blog on it: <a href="http://twotribes.com/message/toki-tori-2-update-11/">Update 11: BerryBugs</a>

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!

Collin

Hi everyone,

I spent the last few days creating Berrybugs for Toki Tori 2! They will look much better when the game is released, but for now this is all we need to start prototyping!

Check out the new blog on it: Update 11: BerryBugs

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!

Collin

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Santa,

Today Cyl invited us over to his friends house to help decorate it for the holidays. The nice young boy had the strangest tree! In fact, I swear I caught it moving a few times. I asked him about it but I guess he was not much for talking. Oh, I baked some cookies too. Santa, what is your favorite kind of cookie?

Here are some of the games I would like to get this year.

<a href="http://store.steampowered.com">Today's deals</a> are:

Space Marine
Brink
Mass Effect Franchise
Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga
Skydrift
Blur
Silent Hill Homecoming
Operation Flashpoint Franchise
Alien Breed Trilogy
Limbo
Avadon The Black Fortress
Torchlight

Your Friend,
Tappet

PS

Since when did bear traps become holiday decorations? It seems a bit dangerous but the little boy insisted that we use them.

New <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale">Holiday Objectives</a> are here.

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With all the hustle and busty fustle of Australian Christmas, you probably thought we forgot the most important part of it: The gift-giving. Well, we didn't forget. We were hoping <i>you</i> would. But you didn't--you guys are sharp! So get your Gift-Gettin' Pants on, because you are about to <b>get gifts,</b> and we'd prefer you were wearing pants for it.

<b>GIFTED!</b> All the community items previously only available in the Nice Crates are now craftable, droppable, and available in all the ways you're used to getting them!

<b>ALSO THIS GIFT!</b> A free Secret Saxton for every premium account!

<b>DUCK! GIFT COMIN' ATCHA!</b> To acknowledge all you generous souls who've been handing out Secret Saxtons and piles of gifts since the formation of the TF economy, everybody is receiving a Spirit of Giving badge. It's a plate-sized x-ray illustrating to your peers exactly how big your heart is, and consequently, what a good person you are. You—and more importantly, everybody else—will actually be able to <b>see</b> your heart grow over time depending how many gifts you're giving. We strapped an actual decommissioned Soviet-era x-ray machine to several team members' chests, and trust us, the science checks out: The people in our experiment with the biggest hearts <b>were</b> in fact the nicest guys on staff. How do we know? You should have <b>seen</b> how many people showed up at their funerals.

<b>STOCKING STUFFER!</b> In an effort to get the gift-giving juices flowing, we've made every map as Smissmassy as possible by wrapping lights around every rope!
<b>BUT THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL...</b> was <i>inside you all along.</i> It's blood! Turns out you can sell it! See you at the plasma center! Merry Smissmas, everybody!

With all the hustle and busty fustle of Australian Christmas, you probably thought we forgot the most important part of it: The gift-giving. Well, we didn't forget. We were hoping you would. But you didn't--you guys are sharp! So get your Gift-Gettin' Pants on, because you are about to get gifts, and we'd prefer you were wearing pants for it.

GIFTED! All the community items previously only available in the Nice Crates are now craftable, droppable, and available in all the ways you're used to getting them!

ALSO THIS GIFT! A free Secret Saxton for every premium account!

DUCK! GIFT COMIN' ATCHA! To acknowledge all you generous souls who've been handing out Secret Saxtons and piles of gifts since the formation of the TF economy, everybody is receiving a Spirit of Giving badge. It's a plate-sized x-ray illustrating to your peers exactly how big your heart is, and consequently, what a good person you are. You—and more importantly, everybody else—will actually be able to see your heart grow over time depending how many gifts you're giving. We strapped an actual decommissioned Soviet-era x-ray machine to several team members' chests, and trust us, the science checks out: The people in our experiment with the biggest hearts were in fact the nicest guys on staff. How do we know? You should have seen how many people showed up at their funerals.

STOCKING STUFFER! In an effort to get the gift-giving juices flowing, we've made every map as Smissmassy as possible by wrapping lights around every rope!
BUT THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL... was inside you all along. It's blood! Turns out you can sell it! See you at the plasma center! Merry Smissmas, everybody!

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Hello Carolers,

We would like to remind you that while snowball fights are fun, please keep them outdoors. TheGodlike, did you really need to build a snow fort inside? It’s nice but that's just going too far.

We also have received reports that Santa was robbed during a practice run. Luckily the thieves only got their hands on coal. They might have even had luck trading it on the <a href="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1189">Black Coal Market</a>. Location of the gang that took them is currently unknown.

Here is a list of what the gang thought that they were going to get.

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Batman: Arkham City
F1 2011
Stalker Games (all individual at 75%)
PAYDAY The Heist
Mount & Blade Franchise
Jurassic Park
Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
Grotesque Tactics Bundle
Sherlock Holmes Collection
Defense Grid + DLC + Bundle
Swords & Soldiers
Monday Night Combat


Check out the new <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale">Holiday Objectives</a> that have been added.

Hi everyone. It has been some crazy few days for Bunch of Heroes with a ton of new players trying the game. Thanks a lot to all of you!
Due to popular demand, we have limited the re-spawning time for players, so those of you hunting for achievements will have an easier time. For those who enjoy a harder game, the insane difficulty mode is still a blast.
The update is in Steam's capable hands, so it should be up in no time.

Here's the list of changes:

[CHANGELOG 12/21/2011]
Gameplay:
- Re-spawn time has been limited to 1 minute.
- Added Survival and Time attack leaderboards
Fixes:
- New Safe Mode launch option. Launch the game with "-safe" to force the game into launching in 1024x768.
- Several fixes including a crash with Santa and a piece of dialog

Hi everyone. It has been some crazy few days for Bunch of Heroes with a ton of new players trying the game. Thanks a lot to all of you!
Due to popular demand, we have limited the re-spawning time for players, so those of you hunting for achievements will have an easier time. For those who enjoy a harder game, the insane difficulty mode is still a blast.
The update is in Steam's capable hands, so it should be up in no time.

Here's the list of changes:

[CHANGELOG 12/21/2011]
Gameplay:
- Re-spawn time has been limited to 1 minute.
- Added Survival and Time attack leaderboards
Fixes:
- New Safe Mode launch option. Launch the game with "-safe" to force the game into launching in 1024x768.
- Several fixes including a crash with Santa and a piece of dialog

Ooh! We forgot to mention something yesterday: One of the awards we were up for at the VGAs was Best Character. We can't say for sure if we came in second, but we definitely didn't win, so Wheatley's acceptance speech was never aired. <a href="http://youtu.be/ymMrwlsbtrI">Until now!</a>

Speaking of not winning, guess who didn't win Destructoid's Game of the Year. If you guessed Portal 2, we hope you didn't actually call your local sports book and put any money on that guess, because <a href=" http://www.destructoid.com/the-winner-of-destructoid-game-of-the-year-2011-218043.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Destructoid+%28Destructoid%29"><i>we won!</i></a> WE'RE #1! Unless you're reading E-Online, in which case, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/photos/gallery.jsp?galleryUUID=4186#159051">WE'RE BACK TO #2!</a>

Look, we understand that awards season is a turbulent emotional hell ride. But you know what would probably make you feel better? Buying things. It just feels <i>good</i>. With that in mind, we've put a bunch of Portal 2 merchandise on sale. For example, this incredible <a href=" http://store.valvesoftware.com/product.php?i=P2229">1970s-style Portal 2 movie poster</a> is 50% off! And if you're planning to go out to eat for the holidays, you should know that many restaurants now require shirts, something this 50% off <a href=" http://store.valvesoftware.com/product.php?i=CP216 ">"Wheatley Laboratories" tee</a> is 100% guaranteed to be. Frankly, there's figuratively literally too much Portal 2 stuff on sale to list in one blog post, but you can check it all out <a href=" http://store.valvesoftware.com/index.php?g=9">here.</a> If you order forty bucks worth of stuff, we'll throw in a FREE Aperture Lanyard. Just add it to your cart and then enter the code "COMBUSTIBLELANYARD" at the checkout.

And just so you don't think all we're trying to do is sell you stuff, here's a sentence where we don't try to sell you anything. Now that that's over, J!nx has some <a href=" http://www.jinx.com/shop/coll/portal2/srt/new/ps/70/ ">excellent Portal gear</a>, including the world's only Portal-themed baby onesies. Between now and December 22nd, you can get ten bucks off a thirty-five dollar order by entering the code "MILKANDCOOKIES" when you checkout.

If you have enough shirts and/or no babies, ThinkGeek has some crazy Portal 2 inspired non-clothing products like an actual, working <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/eb0a/?srp=16 ">PotatOS science kit</a>, a <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/ea43/?srp=37">Wheatley LED flashlight</a>, and an <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/collectibles/ea60/?srp=46">honest-to-God talking Cave Johnson Portrait</a>. Until December 22nd, you can get five bucks off a thirty dollar order or ten bucks off a fifty dollar order by entering the code "YOUSAVED SCIENCE" at the checkout.

Finally, do you like Portal 2? If the answer to that question is "no", then, man, did you make a wrong turn somewhere on the Internet. For everyone else, how would you like to celebrate those warm feelings every time you move your mouse? Because now that's possible with <a href=" http://steelseries.com/products/games/portal2/steelseries-qck-portal-2-edition?utm_source=valve&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=portal2qck">SteelSeries' new Portal 2 mousepad</a>. It won't be available to order until tomorrow. But from then until December 26th, you'll be able to buy it for 15% off by using the code "SSP215".

Ooh! We forgot to mention something yesterday: One of the awards we were up for at the VGAs was Best Character. We can't say for sure if we came in second, but we definitely didn't win, so Wheatley's acceptance speech was never aired. Until now!

Speaking of not winning, guess who didn't win Destructoid's Game of the Year. If you guessed Portal 2, we hope you didn't actually call your local sports book and put any money on that guess, because we won! WE'RE #1! Unless you're reading E-Online, in which case, WE'RE BACK TO #2!

Look, we understand that awards season is a turbulent emotional hell ride. But you know what would probably make you feel better? Buying things. It just feels good. With that in mind, we've put a bunch of Portal 2 merchandise on sale. For example, this incredible 1970s-style Portal 2 movie poster is 50% off! And if you're planning to go out to eat for the holidays, you should know that many restaurants now require shirts, something this 50% off "Wheatley Laboratories" tee is 100% guaranteed to be. Frankly, there's figuratively literally too much Portal 2 stuff on sale to list in one blog post, but you can check it all out here. If you order forty bucks worth of stuff, we'll throw in a FREE Aperture Lanyard. Just add it to your cart and then enter the code "COMBUSTIBLELANYARD" at the checkout.

And just so you don't think all we're trying to do is sell you stuff, here's a sentence where we don't try to sell you anything. Now that that's over, J!nx has some excellent Portal gear, including the world's only Portal-themed baby onesies. Between now and December 22nd, you can get ten bucks off a thirty-five dollar order by entering the code "MILKANDCOOKIES" when you checkout.

If you have enough shirts and/or no babies, ThinkGeek has some crazy Portal 2 inspired non-clothing products like an actual, working PotatOS science kit, a Wheatley LED flashlight, and an honest-to-God talking Cave Johnson Portrait. Until December 22nd, you can get five bucks off a thirty dollar order or ten bucks off a fifty dollar order by entering the code "YOUSAVED SCIENCE" at the checkout.

Finally, do you like Portal 2? If the answer to that question is "no", then, man, did you make a wrong turn somewhere on the Internet. For everyone else, how would you like to celebrate those warm feelings every time you move your mouse? Because now that's possible with SteelSeries' new Portal 2 mousepad. It won't be available to order until tomorrow. But from then until December 26th, you'll be able to buy it for 15% off by using the code "SSP215".