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World war ii online steam charts1/9/2023 ![]() It might not be, of course - but when it comes to Total War games there's history of their releasing buggy messes. Oh, yeah, and IT MIGHT BE A COLOSSAL PILE OF SHIT. And I guess that was enough for everyone to forget the game'll inevitably launch with a percentage discount, and the DLC cost likely less than the difference. Good gracious, I guess the message about not pre-ordering is perhaps not quite permeating the masses, eh? For flip's sake, all they did was announce some dumb-ass pre-order bonus of the Norsca race, playable for "free" when you pay for the game. The takeaway message here is: free makes money.ĭOOM was free this weekend, and just before that chose to give away all its DLC that it had previously charged for, and as a result it's re-entered the charts of games people are paying money for.Īlso it probably helps that DOOM is a very good shooty-bang game. Yes, people are still spending an absolute fortune on a collection of pretend stickers. PGL 2017 Krakow CS:GO Major Championship Mega Bundle But I love that, that any cartoon could be opaque to the point of being impenetrable, or simply an awful pun. Far more obscure than Larson, but surely the inspiration for both the humour and the art (I've double-checked in The PreHistory Of The Far Side, and even though he acknowledges another cartoonist published in Playboy, there's no mention of Kliban at all), it often crosses over into the utterly inexplicable. Max Cannon's Red Meat, Jules Feiffer's Sick Sick Sick, that sort of thing. The piles of books still adorn my shelves decades later (with the exception of Garfield - gosh I hate Garfield now), joined in more recent decades by stranger collections. There's even all four books of the short-lived but surprisingly lovely Citizen Dog. As a teenager I discovered Larson, and of course, Calvin & Hobbes. ![]() As a child I craved Garfield collections (beyond awful to read as an adult), and Peanuts (still wonderful), and then got into Foxtrot (twee but somehow comforting). Downstairs, in the basement of the store, near where the floor was subsiding in Biography (I'm not kidding - huge crack where the floor had ridden up - I went back years later and a section was cordoned off as if just abandoned to time), is a low shelf packed with cartoon collections. There's just free coffee on the counter, and a cat that prowls the precariously balanced floor-to-ceiling piles of unsorted books. I mean, they've been there since 2012 I now realise, but I've been finding his collections since the very late 90s when I first stumbled upon them in Myopic Books in Wicker Park, Chicago. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that Kliban's comics are up on Go Comics. It must be so odd to have been so outstandingly famous, and then while still rather definitely alive, to a new generation be completely obscure. Kliban (seriously, if you haven't before, go take a look, you'll be properly shocked how similar they are - and gosh, I never knew they'd archived his work on Go! I've got books of his cartoons I've scavenged from second hand bookshops in Chicago, but this has loads I've not seen before) and even the greetings cards aren't sold any more. I know Bill Watterson paints and all, but what does he actually do? Larson's an even weirder one - The Far Side was always so similar to the wonderful B. I spend too much of my life wondering what retired cartoonists do all day long. Someone's uploaded 1994's animated version of Gary Larson's Far Side. We'll have our opinions about the game coming soon enough, but let's just savour the taste of something fresh, sweet and innocent surviving in these fetid waters, because it's about to get murky for a few entries, so please join me after this short intermission. It was funded via Fig, and is the first game to receive cash from that format to see the reality of release, following a mighty 725% of their $15k goal. This is a management sim inspired by genre classics like SimCity, Stronghold and Banished, as you attempt to grow a mighty kingdom from just a few meagre huts. Now we just need them to release their sales figures, and we can find out whether getting to #10 is a huge achievement, or an inevitability on a quiet week. A wee indie game from a first-time two-person team (although either has worked on names like Spore, Abzu and Journey), releasing and finding itself in the top 10 week one. "Once upon a time there was a week when the Steam charts were slightly different to every other week since the dawn of time."ĭon't get too excited - four are permanent regulars, one is weird, and the same game's at number one as will be forever and ever AND EVER - but five fresh names, three of them brand new games, and one of them not even out for two months. A tale of wonder, intrigue, mystery and astonishment! Are we ready? Let me begin. Children, gather round, for I have a tale to tell.
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