Adventures of Fatman: An excellent and well-produced adventure game, in the style of the old Lucasarts ones. Recently released as freeware.

Beneath a Steel Sky: Created by Revolution Software back in 1994 for the Amiga and the PC and based on Dave Gibbons’ artistic vision, this is a perfect free download. A cult classic nonetheless.

Room War: A very small first person flyer-shooter, that (in my case at least) proved to be extremely addictive. Decent 3d graphics and a lot of Alienware-advertising textures.

Porrasturvat: Throw people off a stair. A production that is considered an absolute classic, as long as you know what scene, the demoscene is.

Grand Theft Auto: Yes, the same that spawned the GTA: San Andreas smash hit. It is offered for free, along with GTA2 and Wild Metal, by the beautiful, magnificent, generous and over-all good guys of Rockstar!

Cedric and the Revolution: An adventure. Follow the link, read the review and (if interested) download it. Simple as that.

Halo Zero: HALO in 2d? Yes. HALO in 2d. Oldschool gaming with a French contemporary touch…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The best and funniest text adventure ever created, was written by the late and much beloved Douglas Adams, and is offered in an enhanced and free version by the BBC.

The Ur-Quan Masters: This is basically the classic Star Control 2, only enhanced and with much better graphics (and deeper storyline etc). The name-change was due to legal reasons. Of course.

Dofus is a MMO. Almost a MMORPG, but more tactical, thus a MMOTRPG. Still, it looks great, plays better and it’s free.

Air Hockey: Obvious. Air Hockey.

Cirque de Zale: A 2d, 3rd person point-and-click adventure. Very good humor, nice graphics and quite easy. Very easy actually. Still a weird, funny little game.

Heroquest: The old (classic some might argue) MB and Games Workshop board game on PC. Quite entertaining and doesn’t cost a thing.

FreeCiv: Remember Civilization 4? Well, FreeCiv isn’t nearly as good, looks dated and simple, but it’s free. And it is Civ (FreeCiv, but still…)

War Rock: Shoot people in the head.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory: Shoot more people in the head.

Bloom: Be a flower! Or something like that, in a beautiful and innovative game.

Dink Smallwood: The well known freeware, zelda-like RPG. Formerly a commercial game.

Hacker: Be a Hacker in a (I believe, I guess, I don’t really know) rather realistic game.

Star Wraith 2: A space shooter created in Dark Basic. Rather basic, but good fun. They actually used to sell this game(!). Apparently a Star Wraith 1 must have existed too.

Apprentice: Already reviewed by me. Read the review. Then enjoy it (the game that is, not the review, which is quite enjoyable too. Anyway. You know what I mean…)

S.W.I.N.E.: I guess most people refer to it as SWINE, and believe it is a very good RTS(for a freeware at least).

Defender of the Crown: The old arcade-strategy-action classic by Cinemaware, is now being brought back to you by Cinemaware. Wow!

Eye of the Kraken: An amazing, strange and funny-at-times 3rd person adventure. It’s a full blown former-commercial production.

No-Action Jackson: Another adventure, only not a professional one. It is excellent though. Great cartoon graphics, good dialog, good jokes, Lucasarts style and a plot that has to do with (pen and paper) RPGs.

Anarchy Online: The well known commercial, contemporary MMORPG. Well, part of it is free. Go play with the big boys.

DOOM, the roguelike: Combine ascii graphics, Rogue dungeon-based gameplay and the Doom atmosphere and this is what you get.

T2002: Or, to be more precise, Turrican 2002. Get it? Go get it now!

Source: gnomeslair

The Scottish mobile gaming company I-Play has developed a mobile game of popular TV show, 24. The release of the 24 game for handsets will give fans, like me, a chance to get a taste of 24 on their handsets.

Facts

• wrapped in the look and feel of 24
• the game puts you in charge of Jack, as well as of several other leading characters.
• text on screen keeps the player apprised of the latest twists in a plot
• the mobile game is made up of short missions that need to be completed with a number of minutes.
• The game also tries to provide an incentive to complete missions as quickly as possible, as it keeps an ongoing score of how well players are doing.

Game website: 24: The Mobile Game

Sony had said that PS3 will be released in this spring but little is known about it. I am sure many others like me who are planning to buy one would like to know more about its features and costs.

I found a very informative article at 1UP.com which sheds some light about Sony’s PlayStation 3. It contains details about the system itself, the speculations and the games of PS3.

Link: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3148332&did=1

Microsoft and its partners are in the process of development of initial vision of a new portable media device that allows users to listen to music, play video games, surf the net and take hand-written notes.

Origami, a clear rival to iPod and Sony Portable Game device, appears to have more functions and is larger. In a video shown on the website of Digital Kitchen, the device appears to be a tablet PC about the size of a “oversized postcard”. Possible uses shown are sketching picture, listening to music, playing Halo and use a map with GPS technology.

The website of Origami Project states to tell more about it today but nothing new is disclosed yet.

I have seen the GodFather movie more than 4 times and still would like to watch it again. I love that movie. I become very happy to know that the company Electronic Arts (EA) who has developed game of The Godfather, is going to release it on 21 march in US and 24 march in Uk. I hope to get it and start playing as soon as possible.

The game has 130 venues, you can personalize the main character to look like you and 75% of the game is based on the movie. 15% on the orginal novel and the rest on additional materials.

It is an “interactive remake of the classic movie” and the user takes the role of mobster and gradually works his way up to the ranks of the Corleone family.

Sounds very good…..

My other favourite games are:

• Hitman Contracts
• Half Life 1 & 2
• Counter Strike
• Call of Duty 1 & 2
• Battle Field 2
• Freedom Fighter
• NFS Most Wanted (currently playing, trying to beat rival no.4)

Link: The Godfather: The Game website
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