Posted in Deals on Oct 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 costs too much? Too much more-of-the-same for you? Or maybe you did pre-order it but got some leftover change burning a hole in your pocket (not likely with a 60$ price tag, but who knows, maybe you’re a pimp)? Three great, recent action games are being sold this week at [...]
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Posted in Deals on Oct 20th, 2009 No Comments »
GamersGate are selling a selection of THQ published titles for 50 up to a whopping 83 percent discount.
Games of note are:
Red Faction Guerrilla – Third title in Red Faction series, a recently released sci-fi action game with a unique emphasis on environmental destructibility. Sells for 20$.
Company of Heroes Gold – Award winning World War 2 [...]
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Posted in Free Games, General on Oct 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Veteran British free content game site Freeloader has relaunched recently, sporting both a new design and new content.
The “Free PC Games” section is not very interesting – just a collection of the usual flash games you’ll find in a thousand places across the web. The worthwhile content, or promisingly worthwhile, is under the “Free Game [...]
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Posted in Indie Games on Oct 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie award-winner World of Goo is celebrating one year on the market, and players can celebrate too with a special pick-your-own-price deal. Up to October 19th you can purchase the game through developer 2dboy’s site for the price of… you name it! It can be a quarter dollar, five dollars or, if you’ve won the [...]
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Posted in Online Games on Oct 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
Legend of the Golden Mask is a new commercial quality hidden-object adventure game on Candystand. Most importantly, it’s free.
Play the part of the granddaughter of some famous explorer-type adventurer, and follow the clues your granddad left behind in order to trace a legendary treasure in the form of an ancient South-American mask.
You can play the game in relaxed [...]
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Posted in Features, Online Games on Oct 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
Previous parts of this feature:
- 100 Innovative Flash Games Part 1
- 100 Innovative Flash Games Part 2
21. String Avoider 2 – Take your regular maze avoider game and change the protagonist from a solid object to a string. Add some scissors (to make the string shorter and more manageable) and a slow-time ability for the tricky [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes on Oct 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Classical strategy-puzzle game Commandos is now available on the Good Old Games store, along with its expansion Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, both for only 6$.
Commandos is the late nineties progenitor of a sub-genre that focuses on leading a small number of team members, each with his, her or its unique abilities, to penetrate [...]
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Posted in Online Games on Oct 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Finwick is a bright new online story-driven platform game. Set in an alternate reality built of modern as well as sci-fi and fantasy elements, Finwick tells the story of titular hero, as he joins the royal mail service in order to earn a little pocket money before going back to school. As is wont to happen, [...]
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Posted in Deals on Oct 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Last week of Direct2Drive’s anniversary deal, and ten more titles are on sale for only 5$ each. Under the theme of “wargames”, the ten are:
The excellent WW2 strategy game, Company of Heroes, in its gold version, including the Opposing Fronts expansion.
Futuristic, well-received RTS Supreme Commander, also including expansion.
If you’re done with WW2, World in Conflict [...]
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Posted in Deals, Indie Games on Oct 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie outfit Amanita Design are close to releasing their first fully commercial project, Machinarium, and Direct2Drive are offering a 25 percent discount on all pre-orders of the game made until October 16th, slicing 5$ off the 20$ pricetag.
Machinarium is a 2d adventure game in the unique and charming style that made Amanita’s previous games, Samorost and [...]
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