That feeling when you finally get around to pushing your promo idea to AWA.
Will they bite? Is the timing finally right?
Don't want to be mysterious (or do I?), and leave you trying to decode my meaning, but what can I say without letting the cat out of the bag?
Hopefully if they have questions, they'll give me a ring sometime.
We all deserve that, don't we?

Friendly reminder the Naraka Bladepoint Steam Community Event is currently underway.

We're a little over half way through the required hours and the time allotted. This is kind of a bad sign, as the first week usually has the most hours as people complete their personal hours, and then it tends to drop off.
Kindly throw as many hours in as you can this week, and lets bring this event home, and get the goodies. https://www.alienwarearena.com/steam/community-event/naraka-bladepoint-community-event

Y'all got your ears to the ground? Are you hip to the word on the street? Or you do you need

the skinny on the dope?

All signs point to an Elder Scrolls Online Community Event starting August 5th.
No indication of a free weekend for the game as of yet, but the base game is on sale for 75% off on Steam (until August 13th), and you might have the Steam version from their previous MASSIVE giveaway on AWA too.
ESO events have gone pretty well here before, so the 100K hours should be achievable.

Anyone else noticing Twitch time tracking being off today?
I'm watching a Hive partner and have been for at least an hour and 40 minutes (I think actually 2 hours or so), but it's showing 63 minutes minutes watched. I put on a timer earlier and at 15 minutes on the stopwatch, the tracker had only increased 10 minutes from the time it had shown before.
ARP is correct for the time it thinks I've been watching, but the time is off.

If you own The Elder Scroll Online, ESO Plus is on a one week free trial right now.

This is a good opportunity to get crafting materials moved to the craft bag to free up inventory/bank space, dye costumes to stand out, play storylines and zones you don't normally have access to and get skillpoints, or unlock skill lines such as Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and Antiquities Scrying.
The latest chapter, West Weald, isn't included, but tonnes of other content is available to enjoy.

Achtung!
So you want a Beautiful Ocean View? Well, this one's to die for!
A nice picnic spot in The Elder Scrolls Online. I like to take my first dates here. It's quiet, the heat has them shedding clothing to cool off waggles eyebrows, and when this dude shows up, the ladies usually hold me tight for protection (always use protection!).
Haven't had a second date so far, but you know what they say: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The right one will stick around...

So I'm on this website called AlienwareArena, and they gamified it with XP, and power ups, and have us running around doing quests for loot (so much loot... makes Homer Simpson donut drool noises), and while many of the Bosses here are Formidable, am I alone in thinking one stands out?

Friendly reminder, the St. Jude Balloons avatar item is available in the Marketplace for 1 ARP.
For each one sold to AWA members, Alienware is donating $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
BlazeHaze on SteamGifts checked a few days ago, and this has led to over $2,500 being contributed so far.
If you haven't already grabbed it, please consider buying it now.
You can also donate (or purchase a game to donate) here: https://donate.tiltify.com/3a5e40b4-e65d-4fba-bac6-af19f1f33091/incentives

This innocuous looking beast from

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

is an Arctic Fox. I don't recall them being named, and unless you've played the game you might not understand why I chose this as my entry.
You have to control both to play, and the relationship between the girl, Nuna, and Fox makes deaths mean something in this game: you feel the anguish & sorrow when one reacts to the death of the other.
This endearing fox left me wishing I had a fox companion to adventure with.
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Reminder: grab the

Clockwork City DLC for ESO for free July 2nd

as the daily login reward!
If you didn't get one of the thousands of copies given away on AWA, T4bletopG4mes mentioned you might own it from when Epic Games gave it away.
Not installed due to space? Use Nvidia Geforce Now, and your Steam or Epic Games account to run it and login.
The daily reset times depend on which server you play on, so check your appropriate time to see when you can login in and claim it.

For anyone fortunate enough to get an Elder Scrolls Online key a while back when they gave away thousands upon thousands of them here,

ESO July Login Rewards

include the Clockwork City DLC on July 2nd.
Login that day to get it.
If I recall, their day resets at 2 AM EDT, so anytime after that you should be good to claim it.
(I can never tell if stuff like this should go in Game Talk or Deals and Freebies, but last time I posted in Game Talk and I don't think it found it's audience there.)

Dead By Daylight Codes

Bloodpoints: 100KSLAY, INTERSECTIONALIYAY
Shards: PROUDSUSIE, PROUDDAVID
Remember to get your weekly gift from the store (250K bloodpoints this week)
If you'd like some pride badges: BDGPRIDE, BDGPRG, BDGL, BDGM, BDGB, BDGT, BDGGQ, BDGGF, BDGIS, BDGAG, BDG2S, BDGNB, BDGPA, BDGAS, BDGAR, BDGDM, BDGP
And login bonuses running the rest of June and into July.
(Credit to Southrobin and bzhknight on Steamgifts for the heads ups.)

Elder Scrolls Online ESO Plus trial

is on right now for all those who own the game.
You have to initiate it, and then you can get the benefits until June 19th, 10 AM EDT.
They do this from time to time, and apparently you can participate every time they do it.
(Big thanks to YorgunOyuncu, who posted a heads up on AWA Discord.)

Lol, been busy and I hadn't noted when the challenge was meant to end, so I prepped this only to come post it and find out that it's over and the winners chosen.
Still sharing anyway, cuz it's purdy.

Depth Hunter 2: Deep Dive

Very relaxing game (except for when I drowned early in, not realizing I couldn't stray too far from the surface until I improved).
No, I'm not hunting the ray. Seeing the ray and a turtle happen by was always a highlight whilst fishing.
Congrats to the winners.