Google’s been working to bring Valve’s Steam game client to Chromebooks for the past few years, and it looks like the effort is, umm… picking up steam. A recent code commit suggested we could see Chromebooks with the RGB keyboards often found in gaming laptops. And now the folks at 9to5Google have spotted a list […]
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Daily Deals (6-09-2021)
GOG is the latest internet game store to run a summer sale. The company says you can save up to 90% on more than 3,400 different titles over the next two days. And if you’re looking for some reading material, Amazon has a new crop of Kindle eBooks on sale for $5 or less, including […]
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Lilbits: All your games in one place (OK, just some of them)
Steam has dominated the PC gaming space for much of the past two decades by giving gamers a single place to buy games, track stats and achievements, stream games over a home network, and more. But in recent years the company has seen increased competition… and now two of those competitors have announced that their […]
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Three 90s-era Disney 16-bit games are now available on modern PCs
Three classic Disney games from the 90s are now available as modern PC games. First launched as 16-bit platformers for Sega game consoles, Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Jungle Book are now available as DRM-free games for modern computers running Windows, Mac, or Linux from GOG.com. The games are priced at $9.99 each, but if you […]
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Classic Star Wars X-Wing Games Re-Released for Windows
Gog.com just announced that Wave II of their DRM-free Lucasfilm game releases has officially launched on their site. The digital games distribution company struck a deal with Disney Interactive to launch a number of classic arcade titles directly. For the first time via digital distribution, you can now download X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, […]
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Lilbits (7-24-2014): Fire TV sales exceed Amazon’s expectations
Amazon has gotten into hardware in a big way over the past few years. The company’s first smartphone ships this week, and Kindle eReaders and tablets are among Amazon’s best-selling products. This year Amazon also launched its first smart TV box, the Fire TV. It’s hard to know just how many of those products Amazon […]
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GOG Galaxy is a DRM-free, optional online gaming platform from Good Old Games
Good Old Games or GOG is a distributor of… well, video games. As the name implies, the company specializes in older games which are often sold well below their original list price, but there are some newer titles available as well. Now GOG is moving beyond selling and distributing games through your web browser. The upcoming […]
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Lilbits (3-18-2014): Firefox 28
Mozilla rolls out a new version of its desktop web browser every 6 weeks, so not every update is all that notable. But Firefox 28 packs a few goodies including support for VP9 video decoding, support for web notifications in the OS X Notification Center, and HTML5 volume controls. The Android version of the browser […]