Game giveaways going back to game.giveawayoftheday.com

Hello eveyrone,
Please note that our weekend game giveaways will go back to the game site starting this weekend. We tried to use our main site for both games and software giveaways and it just didn`t work well, so we decided to have 2 sites running again.

Yours,
Slava
GOTD team

Gaming weekend with a great new game!

Hello everyone,

Today I have great news about an upcoming game giveaway for this weekend! We will present you not only the new game but a new concept in gaming – MMO and RTS in one package.

This new game — I will not tell you the name yet, so don’t ask :) — allows you to build your own kingdom and army and fight or trade with other players in a 3D environment. You can choose your race and your side in the battle between two factions, you can become a great commander or a skillful trader, you can manage your knights or your peasants – there are many paths to success in this game. Diplomacy and communication will also play an important role, since guild alliances with other players greatly increase your chances of survival in the world of dragons and giants. BTW, building a nice, safe fortress is a wise decision. :)

Be sure to let your friends know about the importance of checking our website this Saturday or Sunday. Post the information about our new giveaway in your blogs or on your website, if you have one – multiplayer games feel so much better when you have lots of players around, especially if there are many friends you can play with.

I hope you will be there this weekend,

Yours,
Slava

P.S. And…you better choose the “right” faction, otherwise you might meet my own forces in battle:)

Small update on the games situation – games on the main site

Hello everyone,
For now, we will publish game giveaways on the main site, as an addition to weekend giveaways.
Please check the main site for game offers.

Yours,
Slava

Game Giveaway site – weekends only for now

Hello everyone!

Today`s news is Game Giveaway change. This part of our website will only be active during weekends starting this week.

I know that`s a sad news for game fans, and we plan to go back to full online mode soon, but for now we need our team to concentrate on some new projects and tasks and we were limited on programmers and sysadmins since the beginning of this website, so hiring new guys is only a theoretical option – in fact, IT has been a seller`s market here for three years already and situation seems to be getting worse – skilled people are scarce.

So, to sum it up – if we want to add something new – we need use our existing resources and prioritize.

Anyway, I`ll try to surprise you with 2 great games for this weekend:)

Yours,
Slava
GOTD team (yes, you finally pressed me enough to fix the abbreviation:)

New file hosting facility for Giveaway of the day files

Hello everyone,
As many of you already noticed, we migrated our downloadable files to Wikisend.com servers.

Wikisend is a new, free and simple file sharing service that is available Giveaway of the day visitors and other users alike:)

You are welcome to try this new service and let us know about things and features you`d like to improve at Wikisend. We would be glad to make this web service better, especially with your help.

Please notice that Wikisend requires cookies to be enable in your browsers. If you prefer download manager software, please make sure this software handles cookies correctly.

Yours,
Slava and GAOTD team

Giveaway of the Day – Turkish version

Hello everyone,
I`m glad to inform you that we keep adding new languages and new partners to our community.
Today we welcome our Turkish version and our new partner, CHIP Online, which will help us to maintain and develop GAOTD for Turkish-speaking visitors.

Slava and GAOTD team

“As the leading technology site of Turkey, CHIP Online is very happy to be a part of the Giveawayoftheday project. We believe that such international partnerships extend the horizon of the Internet projects and in today`s digital world, instead of language convergence (e.g. every site in English), divergence and providing content on national language will help users a lot. We also want to thank the folks at Giveawayoftheday for the wonderful system they put together. It was very easy – and painless for us to translate and implement this system. We hope that we will achieve fruitful results together, CHIP Online and Giveawayoftheday, as partners.”

Cenk Tarhan, MVP
CHIP Online

Monday morning news and questions – Giveaway@Mac? Can we do that?

Hello everyone,
Today I have some news for you and also I`m going to ask for help.

Well, Giveaway of the Day has been around for quite some time, and all this time we had emails coming and coming. Some of those emails were asking if there if we have plans to offer Mac OS-based version of our service and TBH we had none.
Mac OS X is a completely different world for us, and difficulties of starting Mac Giveaway of the Day were (and still are) significant, that`s why we tried to stick to Windows family.
Well, those emails kept coming and finally we decided to give the idea of Giveaway@Mac a second thought.

What does that mean? Basically, we will try and start this Mac version, but it will be a bit different from our regular versions. First of all, we would really need community help. You see, we can code the whole activation system anew, we can design a few additional pages and we can buy a few Macs (already did, actually), but that`s not going to be a Mac version of GAOTD but rather some frame for it.

What we lack at the moment and what we need help with is a Mac community here -both visitors and developers. We do not have contacts in the Mac world, so that`s someting I`m going to ask: do you have those? Do you know someone that uses Mac and could be interested in visiting our website? If yes, let him/her know.
Do you know a company or a developer that makes software for Mac OS? If yes, let him/her/them know about us.
We actually do check our software submit form, and we look thru our email boxes overloaded just like us.

Please also note that this Mac version won`t be Mac Giveaway of the Day immediately, let`s be realistic here: it`ll be Mac Giveaway of the Week then Mac Giveaway of the half-Week then Mac Giveaway of a few days…
/Lord Farquaad mode on:
…and so on and so forth. Some of your Macs may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
/Lord Farquaad mode off. I`m not THAT evil.
*evil grin*

Well, that`s all for now and let`s see what we can do together.

Yours,
Slava and GAOTD team

StarBurn Shark rerun – Firefox problem fixed in this release

Hello everyone,
Today we will have two giveaways, one of which will be StarBurn`s rerun, this time with fixed bug that affected some Firefox users. Both we and StarBurn`s team hope that it will help our visitors.
We will continue to work closely with Rocket Division Software on providing you with quality software tools and we hope to meet you again at Giveaway of the day.

Slava
GAOTD
P.S. Video Watermark problem is not forgotten too, we work with Sibental on that matter, expect a fix very soon:)

StarBurn+FireFox default page bug – quick fix from StarBurn team

This is how you can quickly get rid of the problem:
Delete the file user.js which can be found there:
“[Drive Name]:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[SomeChars].default\user.js”

Path Example:
“C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\5kgurte6.default\user.js”

Yours,
Slava
GAOTD