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Best Of Indie Games: High-Definition Entertainment Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 8:48AM[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include a keyboard-bashing ...
Freeware Friday: Rescue The Beagles Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:05PMFiled under: Features , Action , Indie Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! There are games that are replayable thanks to how complex the interaction of gameplay and story mechanics are. There are games that are replayable due to their incredible multiplayer component. Then there are games that are replayable simply because ...
Spelunking with Derek Yu Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 4:30AMA cave story
What's So Great about Hand-Made? (in News) Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:04AMWhether it's dog biscuits or sealskin parkas, creating items by hand builds culture and communities.
Download Lust: The Games of March Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 9:23PMHope you have some extra room on your hard drive. There's lots of great stuff on the way.
Boot Disk: Red Alert 2 Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 6:05PMFiled under: Features , RTS C:\BootDisk\RA2 Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk , and enjoy ...
Activision Shuts Down King's Quest Fan Sequel Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:57PMOnline-based development team Phoenix Online Studios has canceled The Silver Lining, its long-in-production King's Quest sequel, following a legal threat by franchise owner Activision. The current incarnation of The Silver Lining has been in the works since 2002, and was intended to serve unofficially as the ninth entry in Sierra's long-dormant adventure game series. Midway through development ...
News// Activision Kills Kings Quest Fan Project Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:38AM(1 Mar 2010) New IP holder not interested in continuing non-commercial license.
Freeware Friday: Tiberian Sun Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 4:05PMFiled under: Features , RTS Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! Command and Conquer is an extremely long-running RTS series. It's certainly the one with the most entries, as the only other contender is Blizzard's -craft series, which has five entries compared to Command and Conquer 's eight. In anticipation for Command and ...
Hyperballoid HD Review Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 9:22PMHyperballoid HD (PS3) Surprisingly, it's not that hyper.
Cave Story Comes To WiiWare On March 22 Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 12:43PMThe Nintendo Q1 Media Summit brings the news that this long-awaited downloadable game will finally be releasing late next month. Cave Story originally released in 2004 as a freeware PC title in Japan, and was the work of a single designer, Daisuke Amaya, also known as Pixel. The PC indie game later received an English translation that helped to bring its clever and engrossing gameplay to the ...
Friends Birthday Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 3:01AMLaunched in the Ovi Store (as freeware) is 'Friends Birthday', a small app with a heart of gold - in that it will endear itself to you and you to your friends, as you seemingly remember (and do something about) all their birthdays.
The Best of Big Download: February 8-14 Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ 4:05PMFiled under: Meta BD It was a busy week for news and downloads and next week we are expecting even more major game reveals Let's check out the past week together next to a roaring fire: Exclusive features Boot Disk : Our weekly retro game feature checks out the sci-fi RTS game Earth 2150 . Freeware Friday : Our weekly look at free PC games takes a gander at Planet M.U.L.E , a revival of the ...
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is now Freeware Saturday, February 13, 2010 @ 3:21PMDon't know if anyone here plays these games, I've played the Command and Conquer Series of games for quite a while now. Anyways they have released a few of the games in the series as freeware Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn Command & Conquer: Red Alert Get them HERE Command & conquer - tiberian sun trailer 1998 Uploaded by sgkmuc . - Discover more gaming ...
Download: Command & Conquer Classic Games [Full Free Games] Saturday, February 13, 2010 @ 8:35AMFiled under: Downloads , RTS , Full Games , Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight In preparation for Command & Conquer 4 , due to come out next month, EA has released the original C&C games from the 90s as freeware. These games include Tiberian Dawn , Tiberian Sun (with the Firestorm expansion), and Red Alert . Both Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn were turned over as freeware some time ago, but now ...
7 Basic Windows PC Maintenance Tips Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 11:38AMYou don’t need a doctorate in computer science to keep your Windows PC running smoothly. Follow these seven simple PC maintenance tips to happier, more productive computing.
Adept Software Launches Level Design Contest for Re-Release of the Classic Game Jetpack Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 1:01AMCreative fans will have 5 weeks to design levels, graphics or sounds and get their work in the upcoming game Jetpack. The new release of Jetpack ends one of the longest Vaporware runs ever, since a sequel had been promised since 1995. 15 years later, the re-release of Jetpack will include significant enhancements to the classic game, including web play, high-res graphics, and remastered sound.
The Best of Big Download: February 1-7 Sunday, February 7, 2010 @ 6:05PMFiled under: Meta BD Hey, how about that big game with the two teams? And wow, what about all that snow, huh? And . . . oh we will never be a stand up comic. Just check out Big Download's highlights for the last week. Exclusive features Reviews : We give our final verdict to two BioWare games: Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age Origins: Return to Ostagar . Star Trek Online Stories We Want To See : The ...
Mobile apps bank on $0.99 price tag Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 2:37AMTraditional mobile apps developers have most to lose in low-cost and freeware-dominated landscape, while startups could potentially thrive, notes analyst.
30 commercial games released for FREE Tuesday, February 2, 2010 @ 4:48PMWe like free stuff. That’s why we posted links to download and play 365 free games so you could have a decent game to play for every day of the year, free of charge.
Miami hosts video game convention, speakers from greater Ohio Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 11:01PMMiami University hosted a Global Game Jam this weekend, welcoming a slew of video game creators to live in the basement of Benton Hall (Room 9). "Global Game Jam is a 48-hour game-making binge where people from all over the world commit their weekend to making games based on a single theme and set of constraints," said Lindsay Grace, Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS ...
Freeware Friday: Tiny Crawl Saturday, January 30, 2010 @ 8:05PMFiled under: Features , Indie , RPG One of the oldest game genres is the rogue-like, with games such as Nethack and Angband having an incredible longevity. Nethack itself is almost 26 years old, for example. However, rogue-likes are typically impenetrable to those that haven't spent a considerable amount of time playing them. Tiny Crawl is the answer to this common frustration, and it's a great ...
Nintendo Wii 2010 Preview Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 8:50PMIs there more to the start of the decade than Mario and Zelda? Yes. Yes there is.
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Interview: ThatGameCompany's Santiago, Hunicke, On Designing For The Love Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 9:14AM[Gamasutra sits down for a wide-ranging interview with ThatGameCompany's Kellee Santiago alongside the studio's newest hire, Electronic Arts veteran Robin Hunicke (Boom Blox) on the indie space, the studio philosophy and more.] After several years at Electronic Arts Los Angeles, Robin Hunicke has moved on to flOw and Flower house ThatGameCompany, a small studio founded by USC alumni Kellee ...
Freeware Friday: Tribes 2 Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 7:05PMFiled under: Features , FPS , Multiplayer Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! Tribes is a classic of the multiplayer FPS genre, and has influenced many games since its entry into the market. Games like Battlefield or MAG owe a debt to Tribes , as Tribes was the first truly massive first-person multiplayer experience. The level ...
Best Of Indie Games: Here Kitty Kitty Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 9:12AM[IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. rounds up the week's top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include an arcade shooter about defending your ...
Top 6 Sites to Get Products for Free Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 8:18AMWe have heard the adage 'Nothing in life comes for free' a thousand times, but in the wonderful online world you can be sure that the above saying can be proved otherwise.
Intervvvvvview: VVVVVV Developer Terry Cavanagh Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 9:07AM2009 was a busy time for independent developer Distractionware, aka Terry Cavanagh. He released a string of notable downloadable freeware and Flash releases, including the likes of Don't Look Back, Pathways, Judith and Bullet Time, as well as powering out a bunch of smaller titles in a mere few days when he attended BIGJam 2009 in Berlin. For the second half of the year, however, Terry has been ...
Freeware Friday: The King, the Queen, and the Jester Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 7:05PMFiled under: Features , Indie , RPG Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! There are a few games that have had massive influence on those that came afterward, and one of the most influential is the first-person dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld . It built a comprehensive world filled with monsters and intrigue that would later ...
Best Of Indie Games: I Came, I Saw, I Conquered Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 8:22AM[[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on our sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The delights in this edition include the release of ...
Road To The IGF: Justin Smith's Enviro-Bear 2000 Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 3:07PM[Gamasutra is kicking of this year's Road to the IGF interview series by talking with Justin Smith, creator of the absurd and hilarious Enviro-Bear 2000, which is up for the Independent Games Festival 2010's alternative-focused Nuovo Award.] Bears don't drive cars. But Justin Smith's Enviro-Bear 2000: Operation: Hibernation, nominated for the alternative-focused 2010 Independent Games Festival ...
The Best of Big Download: January 4-10 Sunday, January 10, 2010 @ 7:05PMFiled under: Meta BD This week CES 2010 dominated the news and there were even a few interesting PC game items to report from the show (which is pretty rare for that event) . Let's look back at the highlights of the past seven days: Exclusive Features 10 Games We Wish Were Coming in 2010 : There are some upcoming games that have already been announced that won't be out this year. We pick 10 that ...
Freeware Friday: Merry Gear Solid 2 Friday, January 8, 2010 @ 4:05PMFiled under: Features , Adventure , Indie Two years ago, there was a particularly funny and well-made holiday game called Merry Gear Solid . It was short but sweet, and the developer decided to go the distance with the sequel. Merry Gear Solid 2 is the sequel, and it is one of the best parodies of the Metal Gear franchise we've seen yet. Hilarious and fun, it only has a few minor problems that ...
China's freeware makers get $146M fund Friday, January 8, 2010 @ 3:14AMThree Chinese angel investor firms come together to contribute 1 billion RMB (US$146 million) toward entrepreneurial freeware makers in the country.
3D Rad v6.42 Now Allows You To Do More Without Coding Sunday, January 3, 2010 @ 12:43PMThe January 2010 release of 3D Rad brings new features to help achieve even more without any coding. You can now transform objects and smoothly switch between animations run-time, play short video clips within your games by using Sprites and implement auto-fire functionality without typing one single line of code. 3D Rad is a freeware, user-friendly 3d editor with a straightforward developing ...
Opinion: The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009 Thursday, December 31, 2009 @ 10:30AM[Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009, compiling his take on the best 99 free to download video games released this year.] This past year will go down for me personally as the year in which my spending on video games plummeted, due to ...
Add text to your Drawfiles with DrawText Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 10:08PM!Draw, the vector graphics application included in every copy of RISC OS, is great at lines, shapes and colours but not so hot on text.
Best Of Indie Games: Let's Do the Cha Cha at El Dorado Monday, December 28, 2009 @ 12:45PM[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.] This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The goodies in this edition include a physics-based ...
The Best Of Big Download: December 21-27 Sunday, December 27, 2009 @ 4:05PMFiled under: Meta BD Christmas week was slow in the news department but busy in the original features section of Big Download. Let's check out what we have been up to in the past seven days: Original features 2009 In Review : We give our picks for the best PC games of 2009 in our annual Big Download Awards . We also pick our 10 favorite PC game demos of 2009 and also pick those PC games and ...
10 Things You Must Do With Your New Mac Saturday, December 26, 2009 @ 8:27PMYou got a new Mac for Christmas? Awesome. But don’t let Justin Long’s smarmy face fool you, it doesn’t just give you a warm hug and set itself up. Here are 10 things you need to do pronto: (more…)
Freeware Friday: Varia Friday, December 25, 2009 @ 8:05PMFiled under: Features , Indie , Arcade Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! It's been quite a while since we've talked about shmups on Freeware Friday. It is one of our favorite genres, thanks to the replayability - even the shallowest shmups have quite a bit - combined with a basic gameplay mechanic that just works. While ...
Boost computer speed by cleaning off your hard drive Saturday, December 19, 2009 @ 9:13PMMunich - It's never fun working with a slow computer. Typically, if a computer user can leave his desk and return with a cup of coffee before his computer has even booted up, he'll decide that his PC is over the hill. But its usually the operator, no...
RISC OS development charity taking shape Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 12:38PMAn effort by users to produce a charity that will support future RISC OS software development is beginning to take shape. Using a mailing list to coordinate the project, a group of punters eventually hope to create a website that will allow people to offer cash and skills to developers.
Freeware Friday: Magic Planet Snack Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 6:05PMFiled under: Features , Indie , Arcade Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! Much like last week's Probability 0 , this week's game is a procedurally-generated game that one would be unsurprised to find in an arcade, gamers huddled around with rolls of quarters in their hands. The game is Magic Planet Snack , and while it is ...
The Best of Big Download: November 30-December 6 Sunday, December 6, 2009 @ 4:05PMFiled under: Meta BD We are running out of 2009 but there was still a ton to report and talk about in PC gaming in the last week. Let's check out the past seven days at Big Download: Exclusive Features PC Game Multiplayer Holiday Gift Guide : Check out some gift ideas from Big Download from the current year and also some budget titles from past years that are still available. Left 4 Dead 2 Game ...
Software news Saturday, December 5, 2009 @ 11:08AMIt's Friday and therefore time again to take a peek at the past week's software releases and updates. Firstly, a preview of a new piece of freeware, developed by Chris Wragg : Bookings was developed following a rather specific request on the newsgroups for some software to manage site and room bookings.
Freeware Friday: Probability 0 Friday, December 4, 2009 @ 7:10PMFiled under: Features , Action , Indie Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! It's a common joke, especially to those that have read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that anything can happen. That car over there can turn into a whale, but the probability is so incredibly low that there's no point in even considering it. This ...
Open portable software format for USBs Friday, November 27, 2009 @ 5:50AMNEW YORK, USA: PortableApps.com has published PortableApps.com Format 1.0, allowing software publishers the ability to create software for use on USB flash drives and other portable devices in a standardized way.