Steam Winter Gift Trade Thread - http://www.monochrome-games.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427

Steam Winter Gift Trade Thread - http://www.monochrome-games.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427

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Good news! Holiday Elf Weaverbird is back to normal. Well as close to normal as he can get. There were some scary times in there. At one point he thought he was Adam Jensen and believed that he had all these cool augmentations. But that came to an end when he tried to “hack the system” by sticking his finger in an electrical socket. Now if only we could get him to stop singing Friday.

<a href="http://store.steampowered.com">Today's Daily Deals Include:</a>

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Civilization V Franchise
Fallout New Vegas Franchise
Grand Theft Auto Franchise
Driver San Francisco
Magic: The Gathering - Duels 2012 and DLC's
Command & Conquer
Puzzle Agent series
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Super Meat Boy
Universe Sandbox
SpaceChem


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

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<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/64000/">Men of War: Assault Squad</a> is 75% off and all DLC, and 25% on the latest Skirmish DLC!

Grab it for yourself and/or for friends now!

Men of War: Assault Squad is 75% off and all DLC, and 25% on the latest Skirmish DLC!

Grab it for yourself and/or for friends now!

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We were finally able to go tobogganing today. While we were on the mountain we came across a lone samurai trying to charge into town. He wasn’t making it very far down the ice covered slopes so we thought we would offer him a ride. Only he wouldn’t leave his horse behind. Have you ever tried to get a horse on a toboggan? It was not easy but I think once we started moving the horse had fun. Tappet kept calling the horse “Dolphin”, the Samurai didn’t seem too please by that.

<a href="http://store.steampowered.com">Today's Daily Deals Include:</a>

Total War Franchise
Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Mafia Franchise
Dungeon Siege III
Sword of the Stars II Franchise
Machinarium
Counter-Strike Franchise
Men of War series
Wasteland Angel
The Binding Of Isaac
Xotic
Two Tribes Complete Pack

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

What better way to start the New Year with some Player vs Player slaughtering? We have started to work out a PvP Tournament system and it should be here soon! The tournament games will be different from PvP games. Because rewards can be won the contest must be one of pure skill, not who is the highest level, has the best units or the biggest deploy capacity.

<b>Fair Battles</b>
For that reason the deploy capacity and a unit pool will be predetermined when the Tournament is set up. You can put together your army from this unit pool, but you cannot use your own units. You can still determine your own personal strategy with your personal army build. There will be varying pools available for different tournaments. Heroes are excluded from the tournaments, to ensure higher level players don’t get an unfair advantage.

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<b>Rewards and Prizes</b>
To enter the tournament there will be a fee, to ensure players are serious. Of course, there will be a lot of rewards as well! Each round will have a reward for the players that made it to that round (by winning the previous round). As you reach higher tiers in the tournament, the rewards become better and better. Of course there will be some grand prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place! But wait, there is more! Those who participate in the PVP tournament will also be earning PvP points, which add to your overall PvP score on the leaderboard. The scores will be a lot higher than regular PvP matches!

<b>Resolving Cheats and Exploits</b>
We are working to resolve issues, such as closing the battle window and various bugs. Any cheating will result in being removed from the tournament with no refund. We will be monitoring the events closely.

So you better start practicing your PvP skills!

Dear Motes,

We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos.

First prize is a $500 Amazon gift certificate, and there will be a few runner-up prizes as well. We're pretty excited about helping to encourage education via gaming, and hope you'll participate!

Contest details here: http://physicsofosmos.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/the-physics-of-osmos-contest/

More info on "the story" behind the contest here: http://www.hemispheregames.com/2011/11/18/physics-of-osmos-video-contest/

Cheers and good luck to all! :)

- Eddy and the Hemisphere Team
@HemisphereGames

Dear Motes,

We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos.

First prize is a $500 Amazon gift certificate, and there will be a few runner-up prizes as well. We're pretty excited about helping to encourage education via gaming, and hope you'll participate!

Contest details here: http://physicsofosmos.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/the-physics-of-osmos-contest/

More info on "the story" behind the contest here: http://www.hemispheregames.com/2011/11/18/physics-of-osmos-video-contest/

Cheers and good luck to all! :)

- Eddy and the Hemisphere Team
@HemisphereGames