2011 seems a very long time ago, even though it was only 4 years ago. As time goes on you change as a person. I certainly have, most of that change coming in the last year or so. So my first Minecraft account name of chromefanfox really doesn’t fit me anymore as a person, which is why I have my main one under PredictedCyborg for gaming now.

However, having talked about implementing it in the near future last year, Mojang have begun to release little hints that they’re getting ready to make it possible for users to change those usernames that they longer like to something more fitting. I have a few ideas for my alternate account name already. The teaser came in tweet for from Mojang dev Kristoffer Jelbring, showing the change button in the account menu.

Teaser. #minecraft pic.twitter.com/Edv4CXwckL

— Kristoffer Jelbring (@KrisJelbring) January 5, 2015

A small feature maybe, but one that many have wanted for a while. As I said, time changes us and before the only way to get an account with a different username was… well, to pay again for it. And you can see how that’d be an unpopular option and why this change will be celebrated when it releases.

A new Steam beta client was rolled out yesterday. It contains an element that can be important for PC gamers, especially if you’re the sort to screencapture what you’re doing in an attempt to edit videos for Youtube.

The new feature is an FPS counter, which although small was something you could only previously do via a game’s built-in FPS counter, through a third-party program like FRAPS or various GPU addons/programs. Maybe you still prefer to use one of the previous methods if you’re used to them, but in case you’d like to try the Steam counter here’s the instructions to get it working for you by opting into the Steam client beta.

• Go into Steam, and click the “Steam” menu option in the top left.
• Go to “Settings”.
• In the settings menu, you should default onto the “Account” sub menu. Find the “Beta participation” section, and click the “Change” button.
• Here, you can choose to opt into the Steam client beta. Doing so will require you to restart the Steam client after a small update.

The Steam Winter Sale might be over now (I hope your wallet’s survived, mine did simply because I avoided the store the entire time), but that doesn’t mean that the cheap PC games are gone until the Spring Sale. Oh no.

Humble have put up their new bundle just two days after the end of the Winter Sale and it includes seven games that can be considered beautiful to look at. The games included in the Humble Bundle are Year Walk, Lovely Planet, The Blue Flamingo, with Dust, Mind: Path to Thalamus, and poetic survival game Eidolon all thrown in as well if you beat the average paid price. If you pay $10 or more you’ll also get a copy of puzzler FRACT OSC too.

And if these don’t tickle your fancy, Games Done Quick will be having a Bundle live soon to help support their charity efforts with some good games in it.

The latest installment of Awesome Games Done Quick is due to start soon. If you love speedrunning done for charity, you’re in luck.

The Games Done Quick events are held every year in the winter and summer by the Speed Demos Archive group, and are popular enough to attract the sort of attention needed for a nice big charity fundraising event. This next one will take place on Sunday at 5pm British time, which actually means it’ll start later today for those of us in the UK. Visit the Games Done Quick site for your timezone if you’re not in the UK though just so you don’t miss it, and also to get a peek at the schedule.

It’ll last a week and the 9th seems a good bet for PC gamers as Half-Life: Opposing Force, Episode 2, Portal/Portal 2 and Aperture Tag all make appearances that day.

You can view the event from the main site for GDQ or via their Twitch stream. The donations are going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation this time, so it’s for a very good cause.

Diablo 3’s first season started just over four months ago with the introduction of a new game mode that included a competitive element and a leaderboard to show who was doing well. Now Blizzard have announced that the end of the season is in sight and the second season is just around the corner.

Blizzard hope that they can bring Season 2 along for February 3rd, although they’ve stressed that the date is a target rather than a goal and that it could start any time before or after that although they’ll “do their best to adhere” to it. Currently seasonal characters will be carried over to the non-seasonal pool along with their items and paragon experience.

Around the same time should be a patch for the game which is already being tested on the Public Test Realm and also had a showing at the last Blizzcon. No one can say if patch 2.1.2 will actually be ready for when Season 2 goes live but it’s a fair bet that Blizzard are aiming to bring them both out at around the same time.