Re: Civ 4. Depends where you are -- I've personally never seen Civ 4 Complete at retail for $10 or less. And again, while some people look at Steam as a negative, I view it as a positive.

I doubt Rockstar will bring any games onto Gog for now, unfortunately. They're not known for the anti-drm philosophies.
Steam's making some money off me today then. Osmos, Max Payne 1+2, and CoD World at War.

I just logged in using my CoH details and had full access. Amounts to the same thing, though, I suppose.

GTA 1 & 2 are both freeware now. So it's not impossible. They're only being stringent about DRM on new games.

Oh man Max Payne is so begging to me!
But I gotta bloody revise...

I will stick with Civ II complete I got for $3.50, until Civ IV is similarly priced.

Do you have Defense Grid?

Yes, I bought it on the release day and spent my 30 hours with it. For me it is an epic tower defence game. I am waiting for DLC or map packs for this game BTW. :)

Nope.

If you love tower defense games, most likely you'll enjoy it.
It's a bit like Defense Grid, but on a much larger scale. It also gets a lot more difficult in the later levels, when literally one single weakness in your chain is enough for defeat.

Defense Grid was my first tower defense game, and it's HANDS down my favorite game of all time. Seriously.

Not yet. But considering that the X-Box360 version apparently did very well, there's a good chance that the devs can now return to the PC version (if it too sold well -- and by all accounts, it has) to provide additional content. Which is something they'd like to do.

Yeah. Basically, your other games are linked to your Relic Online account.

It's weird, last night I could see Max Payne 1&2 on steam, but this morning you're right, it's gone. I wonder if i got a random IP address last night that steam didn't think was in japan...
(i've already got them though... )

Hmmm odd that. Because it's right there on my Steam.

Ah... i'm in japan right now... despite what it says on the left.