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 Free Games, Indie Games on Sep 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Indie Developers Digital Eel have released their 2002 game, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, for free.
Strange Adventures is a fast playing rpg in space, a sort of small, randomly generated little brother to classics such as Star Control and Starflight. Explore the galaxy, meet exotic aliens, land on planets, trade and fight and try to discover as much [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Sep 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
GameTop, sponsors of free downloadable games, have released a new racing title, Nitro Racers. While not as lush graphically as their previous Motocross, its 3d graphics are still top notch for a free game, and the engine allows for some very fast racing.
Nitro Racers includes ten tracks to race through, and a point system that [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
If you liked Spelunky, This free game should also be up your alley. I don’t really know if its proper name is Journey to the Center of the Earth, as it is Japanese developed and what little text there is is incomprehensible to me. It is, however, the name given to it by the Indiegames.org [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Sep 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
A new site and a new version for Spelunky - version 1.0, meaning that the cave exploration-survival-treasure-hunting freeware game is at last considered “complete”, although I’m quite sure we’ll see additional content coming our way for some time to come. Along with the site launch there’s the announcement that the game is coming to the Xbox Live [...]
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Posted in Online Games on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
The Unity engine game devs known as Blurst have published a new free, online game: Time Donkey. At first sight it’s just a 3d platform game, albeit a strange one with a donkey hero and a story about time travel and Tacos. Very soon, however, you find out that you only have 30 meager seconds [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Aug 15th, 2009 No Comments »
GameTap have added Project Eden to their free game catalogue, meaning you can download and play it for free after registering a GameTap account.
Project Eden was an interesting effort from Core Design, the studio that created Lara Croft. It originally came out in 2001, and offered an adventure-puzzle game with the looks of [...]
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Posted in Free Games on Aug 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Experiments with storytelling can take us to whole new worlds of gaming, as anyone experienced with the text-based gaming form called Interactive Fiction can testify. Unfortunately, these days innovative interactive storytelling takes a backseat to technological pizzaz and shock value.
Low budget indie developments and student projects are the place to search for innovative new [...]
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Posted in Classic and Remakes on Aug 3rd, 2009 2 Comments »
A new game, all free, is a remake plus of Skyroads, a very popular classic from 1993. Most all who were dos gamers know it: a fast obstacle run on hole-poked highways in the sky, it was one of the most playable arcade games of the pre-Pentium era.
Tasty Static is much of the same, [...]
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Posted in Features on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Searching for previous parts of this feature? 111 Great Free Games, Part 6/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 5/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 4/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 3/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 2/10 111 Great Free Games, Part 1/10
You’ve already played all 66 previously listed games? How diligent of you. Then [...]
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