Hey, duder. Let's Steamgifts. Here's how it works:

1. Join the GB Giveaway Group:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/tgbgg

It's invite only, so you'll have to message me or one of the group moderators to get in. The GB Gift Giveway group is for Upstanding Duders; meaning long-time GB members, premium members and highly-active members only. If you signed up within the month and have only a handful of posts, you're not getting in. Just settle in, participate and become a part of the site. In a few months, give us a shout!

Group Moderators:

• Hamst3r
• Mendelson9
• QuantumPilot
• MsCupcakes

Provide a link to your Steam Community profile! Like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/hamsteralliance

If you're not in the group, you can't join the giveaways.

2. Log on to steamgifts with your Steam account:

http://www.steamgifts.com/

It's safe, yo. It connects through the Steam API, and checks what games are already in your account and if you're part of the GB Giveaway Group.

3. Join the raffle:

Click the link and click "Enter To Win". I'm gonna start this off with...

The Binding of Isaac

4. Contribute:

Start your own giveaway on the Steamgifts site and set it to GB Group Only in the options. I suggest 2 to 3 days as the duration for a giveaway.

Give games, get games. Let's share the love.

FAQ - READ THESE THEY ARE ALSO IMPORTANT:

1. RE-SYNC: If you signed up to steamgifts before joining the GB Giveaway Group, after joining the group you can resync your account here

2. TUFF-E-NUFF: You need at least $100 worth of games in your account to join Steamgifts.

3. POINTS? 1P = $1. You'll earn points over time, so just come back later if you don't have enough.

4. JUST THE BOMB: To filter Steamgifts so that you only see GB Giveaway Group giveaways, you'll need to install a browser add-on: SG Enhancement.

5. MY BABIES: You cannot give away games that you have in your Steam Library. If it's in your library, it means you own it and that's permanent. To gift a game it must be something from your Steam Inventory or something that you just bought with the explicit purpose of giving away. Once a game is in your Library, it is no longer giftable.

6. OH YOU FANCY HUH: You can post a dynamically updated image for your giveaway. Copy the following: <a href=***><img src="***/signature.png"></a> and replace the ***'s with the link to your giveaway - then insert that code into your post as HTML. The HTML button is under More on the Parchment v2 toolbar.

Your account has been verified, with 207 games, valued at $1,839.63.

@LordXavierBritish: I don't even want to say mine, but I am already giving away a copy of Killing Floor as we speak, so maybe that'll make everything better, eh?

I have a spare code for the Airmech beta. Can I give it away on SteamGifts?

@dcgc:

Sadly no since they only allow Dota and CS beta. You can always give it to me :)

@dcgc: I don't see AirMech in the list of giftable games on the steamgifts site, so I don't think that one will work. But in general, anything that can be redeemed or bought on Steam should be giftable.

I'm giving away Terraria right now but I also have a copy of Dungeon Defenders and Orion: Dino Beatdown that i'll be putting up later.

Here's a link.

This is a really good idea, hopefully we won't see as many individual steam gifting threads with people begging for games now.

@BionicMonster said:

Terraria

Awwwww, yeah. :D

Let's keep this giveaway train goin'.

@LordXavierBritish: You are not alone... "Your account has been verified, with 208 games, valued at $2,176.94."...

Nevertheless I joined the group and created a giveaway for Torchlight.

Cool idea.

I opened one up for two copies of Dungeon Defenders. 'cause you need to play that with friends!

Oh, and is there an easy way to see all raffles open for our group only? Never used Steamgifts before.

67 games valued at 731 dollars? Awwww... I'm a noob.

No wait there's some kind of points system? How does it work?

@pyromagnestir said:

67 games valued at 731 dollars? Awwww... I'm a noob.

so the 10p or 4p or 30p next to the the title of these is that just saying how much each game being given is worth in pounds?

no don't think so, i think it's just the currency you have to enter giveaways.

Opened one up for Puzzle Agent. Get at it!

Apparently ou need $100 worth of games to sign up, and I only have $93. Shit.

how do i join the giveaway? i synced my account and joined the gb group but i don't know where to go from there

Well this is... fuck.

Your account has been verified, with 299 games, valued at $3,421.37.

Good work charitable fellows!

This is going to be very useful around Christmas, but there is something fun about sending out PMs and such...

Can us Mac users get in on this?

I just started one for Bastion

Opened one up for Torchlight as well, but how do you view giveaways by group only.

Also created one for Dota 2

I have 59.98 yaaaaay. Do I win?

It's always an appropriate time for Steam giveaways.

This is a cool idea. Is their any way to just see a list of current givaways in the Giant Bomb Steam group or are we just posting here when we have a new game to give?

NEW GIVEAWAY The Binding of Isaac

I think I also have unused steam codes for the Humble Bundle games. If you PM me your steam ID i'll give you the code, as long as you don't aready own more than 1 of these games. 1 bundle per person please. EDIT: All gone, thanks duders.

Humble Indie Bundle #3 includes Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight and And Yet It Moves

Humble Indie Bundle #2 includes Braid, Machinarium, Osmos, Cortex Command, and Revenge of the Titans

@Jaqen_HGhar said:

is there an easy way to see all raffles open for our group only? @CaptainTightPants and @Mendelson9 too.

Unfortunately not. Group giveaways are regarded as "invite-only" private giveaways, so they don't get grouped together anywhere.

@AjayRaz said:

how do i join the giveaway?

Click on one of the giveaway links in this thread and click "enter to win". :3

@Hizang said:

Can us Mac users get in on this?

I think so! Steam offers Mac games, so it should be possible to gift them.

@hussatron said:

It'd be cool if the OP added all of the giveaways to the original post, maybe in a table with the username of the giver and the game name. Keeping it up to date would get annoying pretty quick though, I'm sure.

I thought about that, but I think if we all keep to a 2 to 3 day duration for the giveaways, if you look at a post that's older than 3 days, it's safe to assume it's inactive.

Holy shit, there is no way I've spent that much on PC games. Guess I get a lot of stuff on sale. STILL.... that's a gross number to see.

Anyway, yeah joined up. Sounds fun. If I buy bundle packs and get gift copies I'll be sure to throw them up there.

@Hamst3r said:

@hussatron said:

It'd be cool if the OP added all of the giveaways to the original post, maybe in a table with the username of the giver and the game name. Keeping it up to date would get annoying pretty quick though, I'm sure.

I thought about that, but I think if we all keep to a 2 to 3 day duration for the giveaways, if you look at a post that's older than 3 days, it's safe to assume it's inactive.

I guess I deleted my comment as you were typing out your reply, but yeah, I thought about it after leaving the comment and decided it might be better to just keep it as is. Anyway, I think this was a great idea and hopefully I can contribute a game soon.

@CaptainTightPants said:

Also created one for Dota 2

I think I love you.

I'll give away a copy of the Secret of Monkey Island.

EDIT: And a copy of Beat Hazard.

@Captain_Felafel said:

Well this is... fuck.

Your account has been verified, with 299 games, valued at $3,421.37.

I feel ya duder...

Your account has been verified, with 411 games, valued at $4,550.48.

So, I had two copies of the Ship with the single player in my steam inventory.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/eUSgd/the-ship-complete-pack

Starting on tuesday and ending the following tuesday!

I made one for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Remember that this is a beta key and will only last until the game is released on August 21st.

The only gift I've go left to give is Puzzle Agent. So I'm gifting it.

Your account has been verified, with 102 games, valued at $735.82.

:(, huh, i thought it would be more (like at least a thousand)

Good work, good sirs!

Your account has been verified, with 114 games, valued at $1,394.11. I didn't expect it to be quite so high.

I don't have anything left to give now but I'll definitely put some up when I get more.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zeUpc/torchlight

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/H6Noa/grand-theft-auto-vice-city

Serious Sam First Encounter HD, have at it!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/wzXVp/serious-sam-hd-the-first-encounter

Sweet my account was verified with 40 games valued at $386.35 and I'm pretty sure I've only actually spent about $90 on those. Yay sales and free games!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/pQbNQ/dungeon-defenders

This seems sweet.

Still got my copy of Killing Floor up with 0 entries. I know everyone's probably already got a copy, but if anyone doesn't, it's a really good game. http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Ati57/killing-floor/entries

Made one for Alice: Madness Returns, yo gals/guys it's a pretty good game!

Edit: Woops made it start in an hour, but oh well!

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/sC6nA/alice-madness-returns

Thank you for posting a forum topic about this group! Being part of the public giveaways, I'll be the first to say it's not user-friendly (at least to me). I have roughly 830 games entered, none won so far.

Well, I've used up all the points I have for now entering Giant Bomb only giveaways. Thanks everyone! Hopefully I'll be able to put up a game for a giveaway soon (something that comes in a pack of 4 most likely).

Two copies of The Ship up for grabs! Good luck everyone!

I have two giveaways going for Giant Bomb group members.

First up are two copies of The Ship, this one ends in two hours, whoops. Only six entries so still good odds if you want in.

The second giveaway is for a copy of Monday Night Combat, yeah you can go play the free two play Super Monday Night Combat, but the original is still a lot of fun and hey, it could be free for you too!

Also the statistic of my game library consisting of 399 games at an estimated value of $5,282 blew my mind. Sheesh.

@LordXavierBritish said:

Your account has been verified, with 207 games, valued at $1,839.63.

Well I'm already regretting this decision.

I barely "beat" you with $1,887.82. lol Kind of depressing huh?

Yeeeeeah!

How do you earn points for entries? Anyways heres a copy of GRID http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gJ2iP/grid It is an awesome racing game!