I have nothing clever to say this week. No snappy introduction or
ChatGPt poetry. Epic is giving away two games for free this week.
Let's find out what they are:

* Blazing Sails
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/blazing-sails
If you couldn't figure it out from the name, this
game is all about pirates and raging ship-to-ship
battles on the high-seas. It's also lacks any real
single-player content /and/ it is in early access.
That's a trifecta of nope for me, but the game-play
itself is reputedly pretty fun. Maybe worth a look,
if you like the genre. And if you can find anyone
to play with; apparently the servers are mostly
empty these days...

* QUBE Ulimate Bundle
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
A "10th Anniversary" version of the game,
including the original QUBE, the Director's cut
version, various other stuff, and QUBE 2 (which you
may already have on Epic). The game itself is a
first-person physics puzzler (think "Portal" or
"Talos Principle"); not a bad game, but QUBE didn't
really add much to the genre. If you're in the mood
for this sort of game, QUBE will probably more than
satisfy, but - since I'm not - I'm not rushing out
to play this one.

Seven days until the next batch; see you then!

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:01:44 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>* QUBE Ulimate Bundle
>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
> A "10th Anniversary" version of the game,
> including the original QUBE, the Director's cut
> version, various other stuff, and QUBE 2 (which you
> may already have on Epic). The game itself is a
> first-person physics puzzler (think "Portal" or
> "Talos Principle"); not a bad game, but QUBE didn't
> really add much to the genre. If you're in the mood
> for this sort of game, QUBE will probably more than
> satisfy, but - since I'm not - I'm not rushing out
> to play this one.
>
Strangely, this one says it's "unavailable" on my web browser. Epic will
have plenty of time to straighten that out, but I wanted to give a heads
up.

--
Zag

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spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

On 10/12/23 10:01, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> * QUBE Ulimate Bundle
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
> A "10th Anniversary" version of the game,

I have not heard of this game before. Shows how impactful it is, I suppose.
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have nothing clever to say this week. No snappy introduction or
> ChatGPt poetry. Epic is giving away two games for free this week.
> Let's find out what they are:

> * Blazing Sails
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/blazing-sails
> If you couldn't figure it out from the name, this
> game is all about pirates and raging ship-to-ship
> battles on the high-seas. It's also lacks any real
> single-player content /and/ it is in early access.
> That's a trifecta of nope for me, but the game-play
> itself is reputedly pretty fun. Maybe worth a look,
> if you like the genre. And if you can find anyone
> to play with; apparently the servers are mostly
> empty these days...

> * QUBE Ulimate Bundle
> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
> A "10th Anniversary" version of the game,
> including the original QUBE, the Director's cut
> version, various other stuff, and QUBE 2 (which you
> may already have on Epic). The game itself is a
> first-person physics puzzler (think "Portal" or
> "Talos Principle"); not a bad game, but QUBE didn't
> really add much to the genre. If you're in the mood
> for this sort of game, QUBE will probably more than
> satisfy, but - since I'm not - I'm not rushing out
> to play this one.

QUBE was fun when I played its free weekend. I even finished it!

> Seven days until the next batch; see you then!

I got both!
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:01:44 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>* QUBE Ulimate Bundle

WOW! A $50 value! Got it. They fixed their glitch.

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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:01:44 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> >* QUBE Ulimate Bundle

> WOW! A $50 value! Got it. They fixed their glitch.

What glitch?
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candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/23 10:01, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> > * QUBE Ulimate Bundle
> > https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle
> > A "10th Anniversary" version of the game,

> I have not heard of this game before. Shows how impactful it is, I suppose.

I have on Steam with its free weekend. :)
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:29:44 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:01:44 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>>* QUBE Ulimate Bundle

>Strangely, this one says it's "unavailable" on my web browser. Epic will
>have plenty of time to straighten that out, but I wanted to give a heads
>up.

Even on the client it was glitchy. It wasn't unavailable, but - at
least originally - it wasn't marked as free until you got to the
check-out page. Fortunately, I've seen this error before, so I wasn't
too worried. Anyway, Epic doesn't have my credit card on file, so even
if it wasn't $0.00 it wasn't as if I was going to lose any money on
it.

TL:DR; Epic Game store is still a mess. But free game is free game,
and The Number goes up, so... ;-)

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:26:28 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
wrote:

>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:01:44 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
>> >* QUBE Ulimate Bundle
>
>> WOW! A $50 value! Got it. They fixed their glitch.
>
>What glitch?

You know man...

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spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten