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Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House

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natalie

Is there a better setting for an adventure game than an old house full of secret rooms and hidden corridors? No! And Treasure House has plenty of these and more! Join Natalie Brooks, our intrepid heroine as she solves puzzles, finds hidden items and interacts with colorful characters, including a chief of police whose ambitions might not be on the right side of the law! Get caught up in this amazing and mysterious story as you discover the Secrets of Treasure House!

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Cooking Academy

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Grab your oven mitts and don your Chef's Hat! Cooking Academy is the game that places you in the kitchens of a prestigious culinary school! From Pancakes to Creme Brulee, prepare over 50 different recipes! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering the skills of chopping, mashing, flipping, frying, and more! Unlock new recipes and trophies by passing your cooking courses and exams. Are you ready to be a Master Chef? Well then it's time to enroll at the Cooking Academy!

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The Lost Treasures of Alexandria

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A mystery is buried within the sands of time and it's waiting to be discovered. Join the adventure of Christine, an Archeologist, whose amazing discovery begins a fun-filled journey through intriguing environments of ancient and modern times. Complete each level in this new variation on match-3 gameplay and unlock the chapters of a grand story, continuing until the mystery is resolved! It's more than 200 challenging levels of ever-changing excitement with The Lost Treasures of Alexandria!

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Deal Or No Deal ISO

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Deal Or No Deal ISO
Play the game that has the nation hooked! Beautiful Models, a mysterious Banker and of course, Howie! The rules are simple. Choose a briefcase and then play a game of nerves with the infamous Banker. The ratings are phenomenal. Over 100 million viewers tuned in last season. The finale on NBC was the #1 show in the country - new season begins September 18th with a 2-hour special!!! The models are captivating. They were named to People Magazine's Most Beautiful People list. The host is riveting. Howie Mandel sets the stage for the drama – and he's the host of the PC game!
Features
* Recreate all of the excitement of the hit TV show with host Howie Mandel.
* Special Customization mode allows for family-friendly prizes in the briefcases, such as "Make My Bed" or "Walk The Dog".
* Multiplayer mode lets gamers play as either the contestant or the Banker.
* For added fun, a collection of mini-games derived from the show enhance the Deal or No Deal experience.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
Once again, your job in the career mode is to take charge of a series of
failing or nascent theme parks and make them flourish.
Each scenario has a three-tiered set of objectives,
ranging from apprentice (the easiest) to tycoon (the hardest).
In order to accomplish the apprentice objectives (and unlock a new map),
all you usually have to do is hire park staff to clean and maintain the park
and build a few extra rides, concession stands, and coasters.
Using this method, you can blitz through most of the scenarios in the game.
But if you want a tougher challenge, you can tackle the more advanced objectives,
which will task you with harder goals, such as repaying the park's loans or
building coasters of a certain length and excitement level.

Vega Strike 0.5.0

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After over 3 years of development since the last stable release, many major new features and contributions, and lots of patience, Vega Strike 0.5.0 has finally been released.



There's so much potential in this release. Shader support, movie support, so many active contributors, and a more settled development timeline that should see more regular releases from now onwards. Despite the length of time since the previous release (0.4.3) the project rarely was not in active development. That means that 0.5.0 is a huge update and Vega Strike is poised to return to the high esteem in which it was once held as a FOSS project.



For screenshots check out the gallery but none were recent enough for me to include them here.



Vega Strike is a really cool project and this stable release will hopefully further galvanise the development. If things continue, I have no doubts VS will turn out to be a truly stunning FOSS game. It's pretty damn good already!

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
Lost amongst the ruins of a leveled city lies an Emperor Class Titan, a war vessel of untold power forged in the planet-wide furnaces of Mars, and revered by billions as the epitome of Imperial dominance. The one who controls it will command the power to destroy, or defend, a world. The Imperials will summon it to overcome great evil, Chaos will corrupt it for their own designs, Orks will destroy it in their bloodlust and Eldar will disregard it in their arrogance. The expansion pack to the award winning Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War will build upon the most exciting, visceral, front-line battlefield ever seen in an RTS game. Winter Assault promises to be one of the biggest expansion packs ever.

Clive Barker's Undying

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Clive Barker's Undying | FPS | Terror | 733 Mb
Undying has superb graphics, truly impressive sound effects, and fast-paced, enjoyable action sequences. The entire game is very atmospheric, and a lot of fun to play. You play as Patrick Galloway, an explorer and occultist who owes his life to an ailing man named Jeremiah Covenant, the owner of the mansion. Covenant fears his family bears an evil curse and that his four siblings have already fallen victim to it, and he summons Galloway to investigate the matter.

System Requirements

Minimum:
400 MHz CPU
64 Megabytes of RAM
16 Megabyte 3D accelerator video card with DirectX support
350 MB of free hard drive space

Recommended:
500 MHz CPU or better
128 Megabytes of RAM
32 MB 3D accelerator video card with DirectX support
850 MB of free hard drive space

Combat Task Force 121

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Combat Task Force 121 | FPS | 486 MB
In this Game you are member of an elite covert unit to combat terrorist hotspot around th globe. Features: 10 single player missions, including 8 multiplayer games in 13 differents maps.
System Requirements

Minimum:
-Pentium III/1 GHz CPU
-256 MB of RAM
-800 MB Hard Disk Space
-16-bit DirectX 9 compatible sound card
-32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card with multitexturing (minimum TNT2 class card)
-DirectX 9.0 or higher (included on CD)
-Keyboard
-Mouse
-56 Kbps modem or faster for Internet play

Recommended:
-Pentium III/1.2 GHz CPU
-512 MB of RAM
-800 MB Hard Disk Space
-16-bit DirectX 9 compatible sound card
-128 MB DirectX 9 compatible video card with hardware
transform & lighting (Radeon 9000 / GeForce FX or higher)
-DirectX 9.0 or higher (included on CD)
-Keyboard
-Mouse
-Broadband connection for Internet play



Metal Slug Anthology

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Metal Slug anthology | Arcade | 272 MB
Pc Games
This is a compilation tha include Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5.



Build-A-Lot 2: Town Of The Year

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build a lot

Beautify and flip houses for huge profits in this exciting sequel! Build, buy and sell houses in Build-a-lot 2: Town of the Year! Use your keen eye to pick the right locations to build parks and shops. Further increase curb appeal by painting and landscaping your houses!

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Can You See What I See

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Meet poor Clyde Curfuffle, proprietor of Curfuffle's Collectibles. He's suffered a fire, a flood, and a nasty fall that's put him in the hospital. The string of bad luck events just won't stop, and he needs your help to save his collectibles shop! One of his favorite collectibles may sell for a lot of money, but you have to find out which one! Seymour will help you fill orders, find rare items and solve the secret code to unravel the mystery. If you are successful, you'll earn a handsome reward!

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Zombie Shooter

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Zombie

Where is the line between life and death? How far will scientists go to try and understand this? The human race is in danger again. This time, scientists could not stop the imminent threat and ended up becoming monsters themselves! Crowds of zombies fill the secret research base and the dreadful contagion is about to spread across the earth. It's the last chance to save the earth from total annihilation! Take part in the great battle to rescue humanity in Zombie Shooter!

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Runes of Avalon 2

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Welcome to the once glorious empire of Avalon, now clouded by the darkness of the evil Morganna's spells. After defeating Morganna in an intense magical battle, Evelyne, the protector of Avalon, must now cleanse Avalon from the dark curse with her Rune Magic by matching the runes through many new locations, spells and challenges! With three game modes and some unexpected twists, Runes of Avalon 2 takes you to an enchanting world of magic and mystery you won't want to leave!

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Burger Shop

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burger

After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant! Your goal? Make food and satisfy customers until you discover the truth behind the mysterious blueprints and the BurgerTron 2000! With several game play modes, more than 60 upgrades and 96 trophies to collect, there's never a dull moment as your kitchen sizzles with excitement! If you fry it, they will come...to your Burger Shop!

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Westward II: Heroes of the Frontier

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After the settlement of Hope River is destroyed, fleeing residents deliver news of a devastating attack by the Mad Russian, a treacherous villain bent on stopping any further expansion. Steer the fortunes of three distinctly different pioneers as they establish a new outpost in the unexplored Wild West, and work to uncover the Mad Russian's base of operations. Gather resources, overcome natural disasters and plot a course through new terrain as you guide your settlers to safety and success!

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Airport Mania: First Flight

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Pack your bags for a trip through the skies in Airport Mania! Travel through 8 amusing airports while you land a variety of planes, purchase upgrades, and avoid delays. Stay on your toes as some planes carry precious cargo and will need to land in a hurry, while others might need a trip to the repair shop. But, with good planning, you'll make it to the gate on time! With unique challenges, whimsical characters, and fun that will put a smile on your face, Airport Mania is one flight you can't miss!

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Project IGI: Im Going In

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Project IGI: Im Going In
PCgame | Windows xp,2000,98 | eidos interactive | 260Mb

The awkwardly named Project IGI: I'm Going In follows in the trend of the Rainbow Six series, the Delta Force series, and SWAT 3. It eschews the outlandish futuristic weapons and imaginary settings of many traditional shooters and focuses instead on contemporary realism. In the game, you play as David Llewelyn Jones, a former Special Air Service member who now works as a freelance operative for both the British and American governments. The game features a blend of stealth, covert surveillance, and high-powered firefights at secret military bases, and it has much of the thrill and daring of the James Bond films of the late Cold War era. But it also has several significant shortcomings.


Test Drive Unlimited - MegaPack

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Test Drive Unlimited - MegaPack | 200 Mb

Test Drive Unlimited PC Megapack includes a patch, activation key and 46 immaculate dream machines. The 45 cars and one motorbike included in the pack range from American muscle to Italian grace with some of the most desirable vehicles on the planet rendered in painstaking detail. After installing the pack, all cars can be bought as normal from the relevant in-game dealerships. The TDU Megapack is an expansion pack and requires the original Test Drive Unlimited for PC to play.

Developed by Eden, the team behind the award-winning Xbox 360 version, Test Drive Unlimited for PC features 90 incredible cars and bikes from the world’s most desirable brands including Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Ducati, and many more. Requiring no monthly subscription to play, the game has been adapted to get the best out of cutting edge PC hardware, allowing it to be played in high resolution. Other enhancements include TrackIR™ support, improved effects, steering wheel support, simplified matchmaking, and a new hardcore simulation mode for an ultra-realistic driving experience.

The full list of vehicles in this Megapack are listed below under Features:


Features:

* Alfa Brera
* Audi RS4 quattro Saloon
* Audi S6
* Chrysler Crossfire® SRT-6 coupe
* Chrysler Crossfire® SRT-6 Roadster
* Dino 246 GT
* Dodge Challenger RT
* Dodge Charger Super Bee
* Dodge Viper SRT-10 coupe
* Edonis
* Ferrari 250 GTO
* Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole
* Ferrari 512 TR
* Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
* Ferrari Challenge Stradale
* Ferrari F40
* GM (Cadillac®) Cien™ Concept
* GM (Cadillac®) CTS-V™
* GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® C1 1957
* GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® C6™ Convertible
* GM (Chevrolet®) Corvette® Stingray™ Convertible 1971
* GM (Saturn™) Curve™ Concept
* Holden Efigy Concept
* Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R
* Koenigsegg CCR
* Lamborghini Countach 25th anniversary
* Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe
* Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster
* Lexus GS 450h
* Lexus IS 350
* Lexus LS 460 L
* Lexus LS 600h L
* Lexus SC 430
* McLaren F1 GT
* McLaren F1 LM
* Mercedes CL CLK GTR
* Nissan Skyline GTR R34
* Noble M400
* Pagani Zonda C12S Roadster
* RUF RGT
* RUF RK Spyder
* RUF Rt 12
* RUF Rturbo
* Spyker C8 Spyder
* Spyker C8 Spyder T
* TVR T440R


UEFA EURO -2008

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UEFA EURO - 2008 | 2.38 GB
System requirements: Operational system:
Windows 2000, XP, Vista.
The processor: 1,3 ghz and 2.4 ghz for Windows Vista.
Memory: 256Mb and 1gb for Vista.
Free disk space: 4 GB.
DVD the Drive: at least 8x.
Videocard: 64mb memories and more.
DirectX: 9 versions or above.

The Genre: Simulator / Sport
Year of release: 2008
The Developer: EA Canada
The Publisher: EA SPORTS
Language: Russian and English

There was a new football simulator from Canadian firm Electronic Arts which is devoted to the forthcoming Championship of the Europe in Austria and Switzerland. It also refers to UEFA EURO 2008. In UEFA EURO 2008 you wait improbably qualitative for the schedule and visual effects, the world famous football players, new structures of national combined teams both fascinating and dynamical game process. Besides it in game there will be all official stadiums on which will pass matches UEFA EURO 2008. Players can pass all stages of the championship - from selection qualifying rounds before final game. Choose one of 50 combined teams of the European countries and conduct them to glory and a victory. New mode Captain Your Country will allow players to head a command and to charge the shoulders with the responsibility for all victories and defeats. You should consider all aspects of game and personally to motivate a command on achievement of the best results. Each goal will bring pleasure to fans, and your command will be pleased with them the same as it is done by winners in the present football. In UEFA EURO 2008 will be set of interactive combinations for celebrating a victory that will add in game of reliability and sensation of the present triumph. In a collective mode of game Battle of the Nations you can challenge to players from the different countries of the world and lead a combined team of the country to a victory in UEFA EURO 2008.


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Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas

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Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas
Pc Games | Strategy Games

Silverfall Earth Awakening-FLT

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Silverfall Earth Awakening-FLT
Game Type: RPG
Image Format: ISO
Game PC

Fate of Hellas-RELOADED

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Fate of Hellas-RELOADED
the real game strategy
Pc Games
1. Unrar.
2. Burn or mount with Daemon-tools.
3. Install the game.
4. Copy the cracked content from the Crack directory on DVD into your
installation directory.
5. Play the game.

Adonthell-artwork, FreeOrion Linux builds

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Adonthell's broccoli bushes.

James Nash has kept working on vegetation sprites for Adonthell's art repository (which is quite meager right now.) He is using layers for producing the images.


What you don't see is the fact that in the original image I have the outlines and surfaces separated as individual layers so I can easily re-colour them to make variations. Equally I can hide some layers such as the leaves.

This way it is much easier to manipulate the images and to create a richer variety of objects. Layered images can be seen as "source" files for flat/"compiled" bitmaps. Great to know that people actually use this editing-friendly layered-images technique for producing game art.


Good news for Linux-users! Automatically built binaries of FreeOrion's latest SVN revision are available from psitronic.de/div/FO. They will allow you to play the game without having to build it, which isn't that easy on some distributions. Best thanks to kroddn! Windows builds are also available, but they are not as fresh... Sorry dear Win-users, but I see no other way for you, but to switch to Linux ASAP. ;) Anyways, here's a gameplay video while you download:


Khmer New Year

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Dear All,

I would like to let you know that Khmer New Year is coming soon so I'm going to take 10 days as my holiday so if all of you want to request some thing from my blog you just leave your comments and I will reply when I'm back.

For more information about Khmer New Year please visit links below:

http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/cambodian/khmer_new_yr.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_New_Year

 

Wish all of you have a good luck and happiness,

Token
(Relax-Games Admin)

sil-ver-tree, arr-pee-gee

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SilverTree, buggy and ugly but stable and promising!
SilverTree RPG dead? It's forum full of porn (nsfw) spam (nsfw)? Today I got a letter from Anok (name not changed), asking about the whereabouts of SilverTree's devs and whether the project did evaporate or not, and I say "Stand back lady, I'll handle this!" ;)


Well, I have to say that the inconsistency between the google code project, the forum, the web page and the Gna! project is a bit confusing, but SilverTree seems to be pretty stable and working.


There are lots of sensible-gameplay-impossible-making bugs, but as I said, the game is stable and the major problem seems not to be the code, but rather the media. It definitely needs more 3D models and prettier textures and sounds and music. Very nice about SilverTree is how easy it is to compile it. Here's a little introduction set for ya'll:


Getting the source? Easy as pie! svn checkout http://silvertree.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ silvertree and wait. Compiling? Easy as cake! ./configure, wait, install missing libraries, ./configure again, wait, make, wait. Playing the game? Easy as brownies! src/silvertree, play. Creating new content? Easy as muffins! src/editor/silvertree-editor (for the editor to work you will need to pay extra attention to ./configure's output, for example you'll need libqt-dev) Read the README and get additional info in the SilverTree wiki


The menus aren't pretty, please help, oh 2D artists out there!

The editor is cool, it's simple and just works! I played around with it, because that was satisfying for me. Now I share my hard, hard work with you. Enjoy! =D



Pat Sajak's Lucky Letters: TV Guide Edition

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Here's a great new computer game show combining the wit of Pat Sajak with the challenge of TV Guide crossword puzzles! Spin the slot machine and guess the Lucky Letters to win big! Watch for Lucky Chances where you can double your money and race the clock to solve the puzzle in the Lightning Round. You can play solo or compete with friends because with three unique game modes, Lucky Letters provides brain tickling excitement for all!

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Yahtzee Texas Hold 'Em

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Yahtzee

The roll-and-score fun of Yahtzee meets the thrilling strategy of Texas Hold 'em in this exciting new challenge! Beat your opponents by scoring the top 5-dice hand using 2 personal dice in the pocket and 5 more that are up-for-grabs for everyone! Featuring vibrant graphics, achievement trophies, and endless possibilities, you just can't beat the winning combination of Yahtzee and Texas Hold 'em for high-rolling, high-stakes fun!

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Magic Farm

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magic farm

Magic Farm is the heartwarming and entertaining story of a young florist and her cute little dragon helper! The young girl wishes to save her beloved parents, who got lost in the jungle. But she needs money so she puts her florist skills to the test! Help her grow and sell various flowers and fruits to complete more than 25 challenging quests! You will need your green thumb, as well as your business savvy and decorating skills to reach your goal, but nothing is too difficult with a little magic on your side!

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Escape the Museum

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Susan Anderson has brought her daughter Caitlin to work for the day at the National Museum of History. What began as an exciting day, ends in devastating suspense when, just after closing, an earthquake rocks the city! The museum is in shambles and Susan must navigate through the maze of displaced artifacts by solving a series of puzzles and recovering the most precious of the museum's collections. Can you help Susan get back to Caitlin and escape the museum together?

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Prison Tycoon Full ISO

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Prison Tycoon Full ISO
PRISON TYCOON allows you to build and run your very own correctional facility from the comfort of your own home, on your PC.

Control the layout of your prison buildings and the arrangement of the rooms and facilities within them. Place dormitories and cellblocks, mess halls and gymnasiums, but don't expect to be able to build death row right away.

When you begin you will have a low security rating and must, with effort and managerial skill, improve your prison, maintain inmate discipline and increase your security to maximum. As time passes more inmates will arrive and you must deal with each new influx as they step off the prison bus, all of them needing to be housed and fed.

Raise funds for the upkeep of your inmates, staff and facilities by building on-site factories where your inmates can work. Will you rehabilitate offenders by allowing them learn trade skills or educate themselves while in prison, or discuss their issues with the prison Therapist? Or will you simply send in the guards to quell unrest...


Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods

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Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods
Nothing good ever lasts long. At least, that's the lesson you'd have to take away from the new Black & White 2 expansion Battle of the Gods. After securing Eden and making everything nice and peaceful (or nice and burning depending on your temperament), you thought you could settle back for your day of rest. Not so. The pesky Aztecs have managed to call forth a new god to challenge your supremacy on the islands of Eden. Now you'll have to face off against him and his undead army.

The original Black & White 2 never really made you feel like you were competing with another deity. In the absence of any sort of rivalry between two opposing gods, victory in the last game was sort of inevitable, no matter how poorly you managed your people. That's not exactly the case in Battle of the Gods. Here you'll find yourself presented with an immediately hostile adversary. To be fair, the challenge still isn't terribly overwhelming but it does provide a little more excitement and personality than was found in the previous game.


Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales for PC

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Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales for PC
Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales is a naval game devoted to pirate adventures
at the Caribbean seas of the 17th century, aiming to be the ultimate pirate
simulation. Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales models all the details of a
sword swinging pirates life and misses no part of his everyday adventures.
Taking the role of reckless fortune-hunter Blaze or redheaded daredevil
Beatrice the player will navigate his sailor in the original seas of the
Caribbean, trade multiple goods, plunder merchant convoys, accomplish
quests, build up his fleet, capture and rule colonies and much more.
Features:
* Successor of the well known games Sea Dogs, Age of Sail II and Pirates of
the Caribbean (more than 1,5 million copies sold)
* Be a pirate of your own, develop your skills, encounter evil enemies,
beautiful ladies and conquer treasures and fame!
* Total freedom without plot constrains do what you like and face the
consequences of your deeds!
* Rush into epic naval battles with 16 different sail ships with many
upgrades to develop
* Lead squadrons up to four vessels or board enemy ships to bring chaos
and destruction to all other landlubbers
* Beat different weather conditions and fight devastating storms in day
and night mode.
* Conquer colonies, manage them and construct different town buildings and
improve their defence
* Join multiplayer battles with up to 16 real captains and prove to be a
real sea dog in four different modes (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Defend
the Convoy or Capture the Fort)
* Stunning visuals in 3D, play your pirate inthird person perspective and
sail your ship with a flexible, zoomable camera through the Caribbean sea.
Install Notes
1. Unrar.
2. Burn or mount with Daemon tools.
3. Install the game.
4. Copy the content located in the Crack directory on the DVD to your
installation directory.
5. Play the game.
Requirements

Operating System: Windows XP
Processor: Pentium 4 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz or higher (2.5 GHz recommended)
Memory: 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 4GB free
DVD -ROM Drive: 6X speed or faster
Video: 128 MB Hardware T&L-compatible video card*
Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher

*Video cards that do not have hardware shader support,
such as GeForce 4 MX and Intel Integrated Graphics,
are not supported.

Radakan is pretty

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Radakan's devs have decided to use the jME aka jMonkeyEngine, just like JCRPG does! Neat! I admit that I was expecting the project to evaporate, it just had too pretty a website and some team member was very concerned with picking the right wiki and installing a flash audio player on the site, while there was nothing of the game in sight. (I also was afraid the team would come up with some idea like "Hey, let's make our own 3D engine! Right?")


I'm glad I seem to be wrong, the first tech demo video has been uploaded. (I'm not sure if that's not just some engine-bundled terrain and model, but even if it is, what the hell! They're grappling with it! Enough proof of interest and engagement for me!) I just hope they won't let the plans for game story get in the development's way. But I might be wrong worrying about that - Radakan is a "single-player sandbox 3D RPG". Sounds like something that is free of the bug feature "storyline" and like something one can have fun with, without touching any code. Yay for spawning 1k melons mid-air and abusing rag doll physics!





La Croix Pan, some game made with AGS

I tried to find an open source 2D adventure game engine and also was given some recommendation in the last post's comments. Wintermute Engine (WME) and Adventure Game Studio (AGS) caught my attention, both are closed-source freeware. What surprised me, was that AGS has been ported to Linux and MacOSX! Thanks to .Net and Mono (the open source .Net implementation) I suppose.



SceneEdit, one of WME's tools

I visited WME's IRC channel and asked Mnemonic (the only developer, since the beginning of the project) about his views on open sourcing the engine. He said approximately "not now and not anytime soon". These are his reasons: Leading an open source project means stress, because people whine about your code. It requires work, because the code has to be put in a readable state for others. It requires even more work, because submitted patches have to be tested, to make sure that they don't 'feature' new bugs.


"Simply dumping the source on SF.net" was right out, a decision which seems logical. After all, why should you make a project open-source, if you're not able to manage foreign development to take place in it? But on the other hand: If one has not enough time for maintaining an open project, maybe "dumping" the code isn't so bad a thing? In the end it shouldn't do any harm to the project and if someone decides to fork it, it can only be good for the gene pool.


I haven't talked to anyone in the AGS team. I hope I'll get round to catching up on that.


Update: (thanks to the comments) There is only a client, no editor of AGS for linux. Also there is Adventure Game Goddess, something about being an open source adventure game engine. I don't know, read it yourself ;).

Adventures, art, design...

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New art for Adonthell

There has been slight activity on Adonthell's mailing list: James Nash, an artist of the team, announced some new art to be soon added. Good thing too, considering the graphical quality of the engine demo game "Waste's Edge" (I'm only 120% sure, but "Adonthell" is the name of the engine and "Waste's Edge" is the title of the small adventure game that often gets served as "Adonthell".)



Waste's Edge, in case you forgot how... classic it looks

Adonthell 0.4.0 alpha 2 has been released half a month ago, luckily with build instructions, the INSTALL file directed me to them and I was actually able to build it. Unfortunately it seems to be an engine-only release - I don't see any demo to execute. FIFE (which by the way recently switched to the LGPL) at least includes it's tropical island tech demo.



Speaking of adventures/RPGs and their engines, Steve commented on the open source adventure games situation. Compared to RTS or FPS, the situation is: "there aren't any." At least not of the point-and-click kind of type. Steve says the reason is that making adventure games isn't fun - since the story/surprise/suspension of your work won't work on you.



There is however the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine, an apparently simple-to use visual interactive fiction engine. It sure is and all and the engine's logo is the obligatory girl entangled by a tentacle monster python snake, but I'd rather prefer a decent point-and-click engine and community. I simply am a sucker for more interactivity and less text and more animations and less relationship novels and more (audible) speech and less *blush* in adventure games. It's great to see that the open source gamedev community appears to be useful for lots of prepubescent girls though!



Back on the adventure games issue: Tranberry proposed, that instead of creating games, game developers should create game frameworks for non-developers. O_o Of course it makes sense from the perspective, that it's no fun to know the story of the game for the game programmer, but on the other hand someone will have to know the whole story and won't be able to play the game as a player, this way or another. I think he's correct though that the role of the game designer should be separated from the role of the programmer for great justice better game quality. Excluding some naturals I guess.



BTW: Tranberry is the guy, who created the friggin-awesome looking current style for the JCRPG blog (see old style for comparison.)



Ulroth Axe, one of the kick-ass awesome models from OpenFrag

Again back to the game design issue: Creating the story and assembling the game's code and media should be done in a specific order. I am the fan of the "functionality-first, story-second"-method. OpenFrag's dev team is walking such a way at the moment, as I was told on #openfrag yesterday. In the beginning of the project, there were discussions about the story, but it became too complicated and now they concentrate on getting the orcs and swords and the slaughtering and bloodsheds to work and will worry about story later! Awesome!



Metropolis game menu

PS: Something seems to be happening regarding Micropolis' port to *nix systems... But I'm not sure what. I can start the game menu, but fail to actually play it. See screen.


Where are my buildings?

PPS: Anonymous just told me to deactivate NumLock, which helped :) But I am unable to see anything besides the map. O_o


PPPS: Gah, all the info is in the comments, if you want it. ^^

Astrategic Game

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I have got an email from a developer of Astrategic game that they are developing the game and now it's in testing state so I recommend to all of you to join the game.

Here is an email text I got it from developer:

"Hello, I designed an online Web game called Astrategic,
which was also my final project of the university.
I would like if you can try it and then talk about it in
your web site, it was very helpfull for me because I try
that people knows the game.
The game is compatible with PDA, Mobile, PC, Mac...
What is Astrategic ?
In Astrategic you control planets and fleets in games
lasting for 34 days at a time.
Thanks you very much!
You can join here:
http://www.astrategic.com/index.html?ln=us"

Cheers,
Admin

And a happy new year...

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Bad timing, I know, but better now than waiting until next Christmas! It's a cute snake-like game, RUDI. Source code under GPL, media probably under some non-commercial license. It runs in wine-0.9.58-473-g1eba09b (but without sound for me). Perhaps it can even be compiled for Linux.


One strange thing about the game is the Readme file:


[...] The compiled version of RUDI v0.1 is freeware, but the source of RUDI v0.1 is GPL licensed. You
are not allowed to use any elements of the software (neither the compiled nor the source version)
for any commercial purposes including contest submissions. [...]

I suppose by "Elements" the developer means "media" because it is of course not legal to prohibit commercial use of GPL-software. I'll try to find out. Enjoy the annoyingly movie-trailer-like video!


Privacy Policy

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Call of Duty 4 - RAZOR1911

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Call of Duty 4 - RAZOR1911
Incl. 300 Cracked Servers - Play Online!
Pc Games | Strategy games

Silent Hunter IV: Wolves Of The Pacific

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Silent Hunter IV: Wolves Of The Pacific
Silent Hunter IV: Wolves Of The Pacific - U-Boat Missions will ask you to participate in the most accurate from a historical perspective, but not as many well-known, the military campaign that Nazi Germany had submarines in the waters of the Indian Ocean during the Second World War.

Real-time 3D graphics scene graph framework engine toolset

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Hi, I'm qubodup; not the regular guy. As you see, I can post here too. We had a discussion about making Free Gamer a collaborative blog a long time ago, so maybe some of you feel like writing big-time? Especially now that Charlie is more busy with life? :)


Another while ago, a related idea came up: Creating a non-English subforum. Here it is and if we're lucky, it might be(come) useful some day!


Among other things, I spent a heap of time on trying to un-messify our free engines list - the result so far is the Work In Progress 3D engines list, please comment which features you think are important for the categorization of real-time 3D graphics libraries (aka. engines ^^) After all, one could say, I create these wiki pages for you. So go ahead and give me instructions.


I visited many IRC channels for getting information about the engines and I learned a bit about them too. For example the PySoy project, (which was formerly based on Soya 3D but was rewritten four times since then) will release a Firefox extension, which will allow you to play 3D games inside the browser window. The idea comes from one of last year's GSoC students, who was involved with the PySoy project. Easy installation is the one pro I see in this idea. At the same time: easy distribution, though we'll have to wait and see to know if it is fast enough for playing.


By the way: PySoy is licensed under the AGPL which is used to enforce copyleft on server software, obviously it aims to be a multiplayer engine and possibly a MMOsomething engine too.. Just imagine: A MMORPG written in Python using the PySoy engine, and all the servers and clients run Ubuntu as their operating system.


Speaking of massive multiplayer online games, if you're in a forum, where you are encouraged to post game ideas or ask for game dev help, you will notice the high percentage of MMO... posts. GameDev.Net has a solution for this: All MMO.. projects are to put [MMO] in the thread title, kind of like [DO NOT READ] for the haters.


I found the following video when browsing the 3D engines' web sites. This clip is more than half a year old, was made for the G3D engine and is in my opinion quite a good promotion video. What really impresses me, is how the video emphasizes the importance of documentation (by just listing it as one pros of the engine).



PS: I was quite surprised, when I red the comments to Charlie's last post. In contrary to the commenting folks, I interpreted his writing as a declaration of a down-phase.


Didn't you notice how there are many many many posts for some time and then nearly none for a while and then again many? Yes, good times and bad times. I don't think Charlie said he 'quit'. He can't hide from his hobbies forever. ^^ I see it more like this:



True Crime : Streets of New York ISO

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True Crime : Streets of New York ISO
Marcus Reed is a gang member who inherited his incarcerated father's criminal empire in New York City. Several years later, Reed is betrayed by a friend and assumed dead after an ambush. Covered in blood and injured, Reed shows up unexpectedly at the betrayer's house to exact revenge. After a bloody, running gunfight with gang members, Reed corners the betrayer in a building basement and guns him down. Dropping his empty Uzi, Reed is almost shot and killed by another gang member, but an NYPD detective named Terry Higgins saves Reed.

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Isaiah Reed (Marcus' father) and Higgins have been friends for a long time. Higgins tells Reed that he should be ashamed of the level he's sunk to. Although Reed willingly offers to allow Higgins to arrest him, Higgins refuses. He says that he's going to cover up Reed's involvement in the shoot-out, but this will be his final chance to clean up his act before he's left to the mercy of the NYPD. Reed agrees, and shuffles off to tend to his injuries. As he does so, Higgins sighs and says, "Merry Christmas."

Five years later, Marcus Reed is now an officer of the NYPD, having worked the beat for four years to become one of the precinct's best street cops with Higgins' mentoring and guidance. At the urging of Higgins, he applies to test for his detective's badge and a transfer to the Organized Crime Unit. After passing the test with flying colors, but the head detective does not believe he is ready so Terry takes Reed out for a few basics, afterwards Reed and Higgins go to visit Reed's father in jail. The visit is cut short by a phone call to Higgins. A contact for a case he's working on has called a meeting in another part of town. Marcus Reed and Higgins hurry to the contact point. Before getting out of the car, Higgins instructs Reed to come in guns blazing if he's gone for too long. As Higgins walks into the building with a briefcase, Reed leans over to pick up some of Higgins' cigarettes that have fallen out of the glove box, and suddenly, a massive explosion sends the undercover squad car flying through the air.

Back at the precinct, Reed is informed that Higgins was killed in the explosion. Reed is denied a place in the OCU, for now[citation needed]. Marcus is then informed that he will be going back out on the street as a plainclothes cop while the department investigates Higgins' murder. As Reed resumes his duties, he is contacted by FBI agent Gabriel Whitting, who requests a meeting in a parking garage downtown. Whitting informs Reed that a member of the OCU is a mole and likely organized Higgins' death. Whitting does not know who but does know that the mole was working with four major crime syndicates: the Magdalena Cartel, the President's Club, the Palermo Mob, and the Shadow Tong. Whitting wants Reed to investigate these four crime groups to track down Higgins' killer. After being given a folder with information on the Magdalena Cartel, Reed sets off on his mission of revenge while attending to his street duties along the way.

Jane's Hotel 2: Family Hero

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JH

What would you do, if you had a chance to restore the famous chain of hotels that used to belong to your family? Decide faster… because soon, you would have the opportunity to help Jane to get back her heritage. Rule the hotels in France, England, Japan and on the Canaries. Explore the world’s latest tendencies in hotel business and challenge yourself with a greater goal. No one but you can make the chain of hotels prosper once again.

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Sprill: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

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sprill

Aliens have kidnapped Sprill and won't let him go until he finds a special pearl that will save their planet! Help the cute fox cub search the wreckage of boats and planes that have disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle. Explore undersea locations for hundreds of items that provide clues to the location of the pearl while solving clever mechanical puzzles that will help you with your task. You'll have fun from beginning to end discovering the secret of the Bermuda Triangle!

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