SavyGamer categorised RSS feeds

I occasionally get request to add this feature to SavyGamer, but it’s actually already there, and has been since the redesign, so I guess it is worth drawing your attention to it.

If you head to the “Categorised Feeds” link at the top of the page (or hit this link), there are separate RSS feeds for each platform and other site content. Helps if you don’t want to be notified of deals for platforms that you don’t own.

I’m going to Shambala

Last festival this year, I promise.

I’m current en route to Shambala festival, so I’ll not be posting on SavyGamer til probably Monday or Tuesday. If you want to see what I am up to, I’ll be twitterering the whole time.

If you spot anything particularly good in the mean time, hassle Will and Tony about it.

See you on the other side.

I am using something called Flattr

I’ve giving this new service a try, if it takes off, and enough of you lot sign up, I’ll probably use it permanently, we’ll see.

It’s called Flattr, and this video explains it better than my words will:

It seems like a pretty fantastic idea to me, and it’s a good way of donating to lots of web sites, but knowing exactly how much you’ll be donating beforehand (the minimum is 2 euros a month).

There should be a button somewhere beneath here. If you fancy it, you can register here, and then click that button to Flattr at me.

Edit: It appears that you can Flattr each post separately, not just the site as a whole. I guess that means the more times you Fluttr me, the bigger share of your total Fluttring I get. I think anyway. I’ll look in to it.

ENGAGE MAINTENANCE MODE

I’m giving the cogs a polish, and the lightbulbs needs changing.

Ooh, pretty trees.

Edit: The site works fine in the meantime, it’s just I’ve reverted to the plebeian default wordpress theme for a bit. Hopefully not more than 24 hours.

Edit2: And we’re back. Let me know if you notice any kinks, but I am more than ready to forget everything I ever learnt about html and crawl up in the foetal position. Not touching that again for a long time. I accidentally fiddled with the fonts, but I kind of like the new MASSIVE headlines. What do you lot think?

Watch There Will Be Blood on the iPlayer

Until Sunday 15th August, There Will Be Blood is on the iPlayer. Make sure you watch it. Close everything else, turn your phone off, and sit comfortably. It’s fantastic.

Via bitsofjoy

The Hut are still very dishonest

Surprise surprise, after issuing a coupon for 10% off everything at midday today, what do you think The Hut did next?

Of course, they increased the prices of lots of items so that they are more expensive than they were before, even with the coupon applied. It’s pretty underhanded, but they have prior form.

Just Cause 2 on 360/PS3 was £17.93 before the coupon was around. Now they jacked the price up to £23.93 (or £21.54 with the coupon). It’s a similar story for No More Heroes 2, Fight Night Round 4, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, 2,100 MS points and no doubt more of the thousands of items in their catalogue that I haven’t noticed.

Last time that this happened, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and asked them for their take on it. They never gave me a satisfactory answer, and gradually stopped responding to my emails. This time I went straight to trading standards.

After explaining the story so far, trading standards said “We are going to investigate this report of potentially missleading pricing and advertising, and this is a potentially criminal issue”.

I’ll speak to them again in a few weeks time to see how the investigation is going. I’ll let you know how it develops.

Categories are broken

I did some fiddling with the page recently, and fixed a few small things.

But I seem to have broke the categories pages.

Search still works, so you can just search for platforms and find the games.

If anyone thinks they might know how to fix it, please let me know. I am working on it.

Want to write some words for SavyGamer?

You there! Citizen of the internet, would you like to write some words for SavyGamer? Read more…

Rise of the Micro Studio: Unreal arrogance

I’ll be posting lots of coverage of Develop Conference in Brighton 2010, which I just got home from, over the next few days. But this panel was one of the most interesting of the whole conference for me. It was compered by Will Freeman of Develop Magazine, and the panel was made up of: the highly articulate no matter what he says, Sean Murray from hello games; Captian of the illustrious Introversion, Mark Morris; ambitious newly opened studio, Beatnik‘s Robin Lacey; and rounding it up is Cliffski, the Trekie Uncle of the UK indie scene. Read more…

Off to Develop

I’m off to Develop conference. Back on Friday.

<3

Any retailer recommendations?

I just added The Irons Den to the list of retailers I post deals from. Are there any other good retailers that you guys use that I haven’t noticed? Let me know in the comments if you have any recommendation. Thanks guys.

Buy my stuff please

It is for sale here. SavyGamer readers get 10% off the total price.

I’ll be adding much more stuff gradually too. At the minute there is a few 360/PS3 games, an N64, and a bunch of Mega Drive games.

I hope you can all see what 3D on the PS3 is for

It is purely, purely, to sell Sony’s expensive 3DTVs. Read more…

Let’s Play: Journalists, DS – £19.99

Let’s Play: Journalists, DS – £19.99 delivered

In related news, issue 216 of PC Gamer is out on Thursday, subscribers should already have it. Some of my words have found their way into it. I wrote an article called “Gaming on a budget”, so I’ve not strayed far from my area of expertise. It has WOW: Cataclysm on the cover, and can be ordered online here (on Thursday), or found in petrol stations, super markets and corner shops across the land.

Give your wallet a rest: I’m going away for a bit

I’m going to Glastonbury, so I’m going to be away from Friday the 18th, and I’ll be back (and hungover) Monday the 28th. I’m not going to be posting on SavyGamer during this time.

Set about playing all the games that you have bought for cheap.

You can follow my festival antics on twitter.

The Hut response: A deafening silence

I have contacted The Hut multiple times regarding their dishonest use of coupons, and whilst they were initially happy to answer my questions, once they realised the nature of what I was wanting to ask them, they ended all communications with me. Perhaps they will get back to me in the future, but I doubt it. If they do I will let you know. I’ll let you draw your own conclusion about what their silence means.

I’m not quite sure how to respond to this. I’m reluctant to stop linking to their deals, particularly when they do have genuine discounts. I think I will just keep an extra close eye on them, and add a disclaimer to any posts for them that uses coupons.

I’m going away tomorrow (more on that later), but I’ll try to speak to trading standards to see what they have to say about it when I get back.