"Good Guy Nick" is back!

The "Good Guy Nick" Achievement has returned in November 2024 on Steam!

Great news for Steam players! The highly coveted "Good Guy Nick" achievement is available once again this November 2024. The achievement, which was last obtainable in 2022, makes its return in celebration of the 15th anniversary of Left 4 Dead. It was available from November 14th to 18th.

How to unlock it:
To earn the achievement, you must complete a full campaign during this period with a player who downloaded the free weekend version of the game. Don't miss your chance to add this to your achievement collection!

The Carcassonne lost expansion

The "Catapult" expansion for the board game Carcassonne introduces an exciting new twist to the classic tile-laying game. It adds a catapult mechanic that allows players to launch pieces to steal or swap tiles from other players. This expansion follows the traditional rules of Carcassonne, but with a unique feature that adds more interaction and strategy among players.
Fun facts:

• The catapult mechanic: Players launch a small wooden piece in the shape of a "catapult," which can alter tile placements, introducing an element of luck and skill to the game.
• Additional difficulty: The catapult is not just a strategic tool; it also adds a higher level of challenge, as the launch needs to be precise to effectively influence the board.
• Limited availability: "The Catapult" was released as a limited expansion and was only available at certain events or as part of special promotions, making it a highly sought-after item for collectors.
• The worst rated: Despite its uniqueness, "The Catapult" is considered the most criticized Carcassonne expansion. Many players felt that the catapult mechanic disrupted the flow of the game, and the element of chance detracted from the strategic depth. For this reason, it was not re-released in future editions, making it a controversial and hard-to-find expansion.

Although this expansion adds dynamism and a new way of player interaction, its negative reception and criticisms regarding its imbalance led to its removal from the market.

Upcoming sales for Steam

Upcoming Steam Sales to End the Year with More Games (That We’ll Probably Never Play)
In this short update, we bring you the upcoming Steam sales to wrap up the year with even more games in our libraries that, let’s be honest, we’ll probably never play.

Black friday
From November 27 to December 4, 2024, Steam will offer massive discounts on a wide range of titles, including both popular hits and hidden gems, perfect for filling your library with games you've been eyeing all year. It’s the perfect time to take advantage of those great offers you might have missed earlier!

Winter and Christmas sales:
The highly anticipated Winter and Christmas Sales will run from December 19, 2024, to January 2025. This event, one of the biggest sales of the year, promises incredible discounts on thousands of games. With offers across all categories and genres, it’s the perfect chance to grab those titles you’ve always wanted, but somehow never got around to buying.
Remember, during these sales, you’ll also find gift cards, content bundles, and other surprises to enhance your shopping experience. Plus, it's a great time to add to your library while taking advantage of the festive spirit to gift (or treat yourself) with new games.
At the end of the day, even if we have hundreds of unplayed games, there’s always room for a few more!

New GTA Trilogy update!

The GTA Trilogy's new patch is far bigger than Rockstar seems to want to admit, with a host of quality-of-life adjustments in addition to its visual improvements.

Yesterday, the GTA Trilogy - a collection of GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas which launched in a pretty shaky state in 2021 - received its first update in two years. From the patch notes, you might assume that the changes were pretty minor - Rockstar says that as of November 12, the game had received "numerous fixes and improvements," and it had "added Classic Lighting mode which restores the look and feel of the sky in the original games."

For those of you particularly fond of San Andreas' sepia palette, that's great news, but if you simply took Rockstar at its word, you'd be missing out on some pretty chunky changes that have been added to the game. Twitter user Besk, for instance, notes that GTA 3 and Vice City now allow you to run and gun with larger weapons, like shotguns and flamethrowers, in a change that wasn't even present in the original games.