We’ve received a big response to our competition posted yesterday, which will allow a couple of lucky people to win a Space Marine Chainsword and War’s Chaoseater! Make sure to get your entry in before it’s too late.  While we’re talking about game give-aways, make sure you’re following us on Twitter and Facebook, as we’re giving games away on a daily basis!

Today’s big hitting deals are from THQ:

Saints Row The Third is 60% off - Take the fight to Steelport, a once-proud metropolis reduced to a struggling city of sin under Syndicate control.

Space Marine is 60% off - Losing this planet is not an option, but a darker and far more evil threat is lurking large in the shadows of this world.

GMG Trivia: Some users have managed to get so many user referrals that they’ll probably never need to buy another game with cash again (Seriously, we’re talking hundreds of dollars worth of store credit!) For more information on referrals you can click here.

-James

Community Manager

Darksiders Chaoseater

 GMG is proud to present our birthday competition, giving our customers the chance to win two amazing pieces of Merchandise: the Chaoseater sword from Darksiders and a Warhammer 40k Chainsword!

These prizes have been kindly donated by our friends at THQ, publishers of the excellent Space Marine, Dawn of War and Darksiders series of games.

You can buy the excellent Space Marine here on GMG right now, and pre-purchase the HUGE Darksiders 2 sequel as well! Here’s the amazing Darksiders promo video:

We’ve been playing with these in the office, and we’re pretty jealous that we’re not allowed to take these home ourselves!

Unfortunately, staff aren’t allowed to enter this competition, but you guys are! All you need to do is check out the video above and answer this simple question:

What is the message at the end of the video?

A: Death Lives

B: Death Dies

C: Death Rides

To enter, send us an email and put your Answer, Username and either ‘Chaoseater’ or ‘Chainsword’ in the subject line, separated by a comma. For example:
B, Radareon, Chaoseater

If you don’t have a GMG account, you can sign up right here

Make sure to spell the name of the item and your username correctly, and we’ll be announcing winners at the end of our birthday promotion, on Friday 26th May. Only entries using the correct format will be counted, and only one entry per username is allowed, so choose which item you’d like to win wisely! For a full list of our competition terms and conditions, click here.

Meanwhile, we’ll be giving away 100 games over the next few weeks on our Facebook and Twitter, so come join us if you want to be a part of the celebrations!

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GMG Trivia: In his spare time, Rob C likes to practise the dark arts. Or that’s what he tells everyone. Really, he just stares intensely at Rice Krispies in an attempt to replicate that scene from Matilda.

Following on from yesterday’s post, as well as using this to announce deals we’ll be including little bits of trivia about Green Man Gaming at the bottom.  We think it’s important that we develop a stronger relationship with our users out there in the ether(net cables), that includes you! There will probably be a few bits about members of the team, as well as points in our history that we highlight as being important or amusing.

There’s an Iceberg floating in our punchbowl, today. Our big daily deals are titles from Iceberg Interactive:

Nuclear Dawn is 75% off - Nuclear Dawn is the first game to offer a full FPS and RTS experience, within a single gameplay model, without crippling or diluting either side of the game.

Zeno Clash is 80% off - Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world. Play the role of Ghat, a man banished by his own brothers and forced to begin a desperate journey past the forbidden desert and to the end of the world.

GMG Trivia: Due to an operator error, Batman: Arkham City was entered into our system as Batham Arkham City. Once committed you can’t change it either! This prompted teasing of the guilty party, and led to other fun names such as “Badman & Robby,” the streetwise superheroes who won’t be dissed. A personal favourite.

-James

Community Manager

This weekend, Green Man Gaming turned 2. And look how we’ve grown!

To mark this huge event, we’ve decided to hold a massive birthday party! But this time, we’re going to give you Green Man Gamers the gifts.

Every day for two weeks, we will be playing host to huge discounts on many massive games. The biggest deals will run only for 24 hours from 1100 UTC each day, giving everyone across the globe a fair chance to catch the big-hitting titles at a brilliant price.

Today we are kicking off the festivities with two huge discounts on hit indie titles:

Super Meat Boy is 70% off – A tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who’s trying to save his girlfriend

Unstoppable Gorg is 50% off - A lovingly crafted homage to vintage sci-fi films from the 1950s. Flying saucers, rubbery aliens, dodgy effects, it’s got it all.

Additionally, we have a massive 50% off all of our Head-Up games titles, which includes the brand new Deadly 30, a zombie tower defense game in the style of the Metal Slug series.

We will be posting our hottest deals daily on this very blog, so keep your eyes/RSS readers trained on the site for all of our deal updates. It’s not cake, but it’s just as delicious.

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GMG Trivia: Paul W. is Green Man Gaming’s Publisher Relations and Content Manager. He enjoys long walks on the beach and watching c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

Today’s 75% discounts are available on the Cities in Motion Collection and the King Arthur Collection, which last until 1100 UTC 4th May.

Make sure to check back each day too, or alternatively follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep up with the latest updates.

-James

Community Manager

It’s a new month and to catch you up with some recent additions to the site, we’ve got a very short list with some good offers and a catch-up on what’s new.

South Park: The Game is now available on the store – and we may well be the first out there to get the game available to pre-purchase.

Sleeping Dogs, the anticipated title from Square Enix, is available to pre-purchase now. If you act now you can even get a 10% discount!

Men of War: Condemned Heroes is now live on the site with a 10% discount.  This title tells the story of one of the Soviet penal batallions in WW2.

And if you’re looking for something on a different level? Want to support indies? Here are a number of smaller games we’ve added this past week:

Chester - Chester is a 2D platformer with over 10 unlockable characters, RPG elements & leveling up system, loads of unlockables, around 50 levels, & 8 “styles” that allow the player to change the look of the game at will.

Waveform - Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding on a wave of light in this innovative action-puzzle game.

Deadly 30 - Survive 30 nights of horror and zombie menace in Deadly 30! Rescue and recruit companions, upgrade your weaponry and fortify your position during safe daylight.

InMomentum – InMomentum is a minimalistic sci-fi platform racing game that challenges the players to think in both horizontal and vertical perspectives.

-James

Community Manager

London - 25 April 2012 – Green Man Gaming announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Europe Forum in Amsterdam, April 23-25, 2012. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of April 25 at the event.

-James

Community Manager

This is to announce that we’ve changed the link structure at Green Man Gaming.

Instead of having countries divided between greenmangaming.com and greenmangaming.co.uk, we (and more specifically our development team) have brought everything back to just the greenmangaming.com domain, and introduced a new link structure that, depending on your region, might look a little something like this:

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/pc/games/action/darksiders-ii-limited-edition/

There are not any issues expected to arise, but if you do happen to spot anything a bit odd let us know!

Happy Gaming!

-James

Community Manager

P.S. Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page too, if you want a change to grab a copy of Killing Floor for free – just comment before 1100 GMT+1 tomorrow!

]]> http://blog.greenmangaming.com/2012/04/domain-changes-on-green-man-gaming/feed/ 0 http://blog.greenmangaming.com/2012/04/mcv-awards-gmg-nominated-for-best-digital-team/ http://blog.greenmangaming.com/2012/04/mcv-awards-gmg-nominated-for-best-digital-team/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:33:05 +0000 James http://blog.greenmangaming.com/?p=4644 Hello gamers,

We’re very happy to tell you that we’ve been nominated for “Best Digital Team” in the prestigious 2012 MCV Industry Excellence Awards, which will be held in the Lancaster Hotel in London on Thursday 19th April 2012. The competition for the award is stiff, with other nominees in the category including Bethesda, Sony DADC, Ztorm and last year’s winner, Sega.

Whether we win or lose, for a company that has been trading for less than 2 years, it’s a privilege to have been nominated for an award by the Games Industry… but it would be more fun to win!

You can follow updates from MCV, and we might also see a few tweets from the GMG staff who are going to the event.

-James

Community Manager

It’s been a busy few weeks here in our London office, especially with our just-finished Digital Download Festival!One of the more popular pieces was our 20% voucher, which gave a discount on a handful of highly anticipated titles, including Binary Domain and Darksiders 2: Limited Edition.

Well while it’s only been over for a couple of hours, we’ve already had a number of people requesting it be reactivated.   And after talking with Rob, Marketing Manager extraordinaire, we’re throwing up a new voucher for you to use:

GMG20-PREOR-PROMO

As an added bonus when you prepurchase Risen 2: Dark Waters, whether or not you use the above code, you’ll receive a code to redeem against Risen 2: Treasure Isle DLC for 100% off! You will receive the voucher via email and must use it within 30 days or it will expire.

Prepurchase Darksiders II: Limited Edition and get access to Arguls Tomb, the DLC expansion when it’s available (which will be about a month after release).

Use the voucher at the checkout with any of the above titles* to get a hot deal.

Make sure to check the site this week for other offers, and prepare for a great year of gaming with GMG!

-James

Community Manager