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Indie dev gives game away, hackers steal 30,000 Steam keys overnight
Husband and wife duo Wadjet Eye Games started a giveaway yesterday, offering up Steam codes for Blackwell Deception to celebrate Halloween. The indie developer opted to cancel the adventure game giveaway today after discovering that 30,000 Steam keys were stolen by hackers. The problem was even bigger at first as founder Dave Gilbert discovered that, after issuing a press release to the media about the giveaway earlier this week, the generated keys unlocked Wadjet Eye Games' entire catalog. After sorting that issue out, Gilbert discovered that buyers were "ordering multiple copies of the game – hundreds at a time. And collecting Steam keys for reselling later," he told Red Door Blue Key. Gilbert asked his sales provider, BMT, to create an IP-detecting Steam code generator page, though it didn't stop resellers from masking their IPs to continue their thieving efforts. After removing the link to the Steam key generator, Gilbert returned today to find that because the generator itself still existed, some 30,000 keys had been stolen. He announced via Twitter that Steam has disabled the keys generated after midnight and that, per his request, no bans will be issued to those that redeemed the Steam codes. Blackwell Deception is the fourth game in the Blackwell adventure series, and was first made available on Steam in January 2012. The game can be purchased for $10, though Wadjet Eye Games is also offering a four-game bundle of the series to date for $20.
Indie Royale Fall Bundle has To the Moon, Oil Rush, AVSEQ, more
The Indie Royale Fall Bundle is here, and it's transformed into an 80s sitcom, if the above trailer is anything to judge by. The Fall Bundle includes To the Moon, Oil Rush, Blackwell Deception, AVSEQ and Reprisal, with special guest appearances by Nancy McKeon. The bundle also includes the soundtracks for Oil Rush and Reprisal, and by paying $8 or more buyers get the album 88:88 by Makeup and Vanity Set, a synthetic, chiptune band from Nashville.Oil Rush, AVSEQ and Reprisal are PC and Mac, and all games except for Reprisal will activate directly on Steam. Head on over to the Indie Royale Fall Bundle to grab some great games on the cheap and possibly learn some facts of life.
