GunBound - Multiplayer Worms-like Shooting Game | MakeUseOf.com. I remember playing Worms at a friends place when I was little. We’d boot up the Windows 95 system, wait half an hour, and start playing. It was a really crappy computer, one of the crappiest I’ve ever seen. After two or three turns, it always crashed. And we kept rebooting, and kept trying, because even if you couldn’t finish any of those sessions, it was just such a darn fun game! Times have changed now.
However, some things don’t change. Welcome to Lond, the place where eight moons rise, a place of anarchy. Welcome to GunBound, a multiplayer worms like game, an MMO artillery shooter, brought to us by softnyx. General Gameplay Although the well-known concept remains intact for the major part, several adjustments have been made to create a more extended and intensive experience.
The most significant change is probably the introduction of mobiles. Next thing you’ll learn – with your eyes, or in the massive nine part tutorial – is a more advanced interface. Items and Forces. The New Switcheroo is a challenging puzzler - Time Waster. By Lee Mathews on February 3, 2009 at 03:00 PM Ok, this looks simple enough. Click the dots in the right order, and turn them all the same color. That's what I thought after playing the first level of The New Switcheroo. As I plodded ahead through the subsequent levels, I started to understand what makes the game a true Time Waster. New dots appear with new super powers: some cause adjacent blocks to rotate in place, others rotate the whole lot musical chairs style. Unlike some puzzlers, Switcheroo doesn't force you to unlock levels. . [ via JayIsGames ] Tags: flash-game, puzzle, timewasters. Blurst - Several Games For The Unity WebPlayer | MakeUseOf.com. We have wrote about Unity in the past, a multi platform webbrowser plugin enabling stunning inbrowser 3D games – amongst other things.
Although used in various programming projects, the Unity plugin has not yet reached the heights of what might have been expected; it hasn’t taken over most browsers, and didn’t push us towards Skynet. We thought it’d be interesting to take a look at what has happened with Unity since. Upon doing so, we stumbled upon Blurst. Blurst, a project of the Unity creators, has continued developing Unity games ever since. It must be noted that, although most of these games don’t reach the full potential of the platform by far, they are quite entertaining, and certainly worth taking a look at. Note – To play any of these games, you need to install the Unity web plug-in. This can be downloaded here, or through any Unity-embedded webpage. Splume There are various tweaks to be found though. Blush This game reminds me somewhat of PlayStation’s Flow.
Jetpack Brontosaurus. Game Booster auto-tweaks Windows for better performance. There are plenty of hardware-free solutions for squeezing a little bit more gaming performance out of your Windows system. Heck, there are even a number of tools built right in to Windows that you can use to cut down on background performance drains before you fire up your favorite game - like services.msc, for example. Still, it's kind of pain to go in there and selectively turn off unwanted services all the time. Game Booster makes the process totally painless.
It's similar to AMD's Fusion tool: when activated, Game Booster will turn off any unnecessary Windows services, do a quick RAM sweep, and offer to close any other programs that are currently running. Game Booster is useful in non-gaming situations as well - keep it handy to quiet background process noise whenever you're firing up any processor-hungry application. Tags: freeware, gaming, performance-tuning, services, tweaking, windows. Platinum Arts Sandbox - Open Source Free 3D Video Game Maker & Game Design Creation Software/Tool. How To Recover Your Lost Video Game Keys (Windows) | MakeUseOf.com. Every gamer knows that video game keys are immensely important. Of course, online serials or No-CD cracks can be found quickly, but for online games, amongst other things, an authentic serial code is a simple necessity. Now you may be the school example of tidiness, keeping an alphabetical list of games, alphabetically sorting all yours by size, but most probably not.
If you’re even somewhat like me, often losing track of something after a mere five minutes, you can get in a lot of trouble – without those tiny scribblings, your sixty-dollar game becomes a useless piece of plastic. Turning the house upside down might present a solution, but other methods don’t require quite so much bother. After all, we’re living in the digital age now. Game Key Revealer All your games’ serial codes get stored in the registry upon install – some even remain after removing the game in question! Now you’ve retrieved those keys, it’s advised to store it somewhere for safekeeping. Manually Retrieving a Key. Game Saves. Three free rhythm based games. I love music, and I love video games. This makes rhythm games perfect for me. And the best part? I don’t have to pay for some of the great ones! This is a list of my three favorite rhythm games, in no particular order. Frets on Fire click to enlarge This is a Guitar Hero like game for Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Stepmania This is a DDR like game for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Osu! This is a game I pretty much just found out about. List of commercial games released as freeware. Play Hundreds of NES Games in your browser. Kornie send me a a link to a great webpage that hosts hundreds of NES games that are playable in your browser. All you need is the Java plugin and you are ready to go. VNES currently host 250 English games, 80 Japanese games, 10 prototype games, 25 unlicensed and 25 miscellaneous games. The English games make the biggest part of the list and include some classic games like Super Mario Brothers 1-3, Double Dragon, Ikari Warriors, Bomberman and Mega Man. This is also a incredible opportunity to play some of the games that the angry Nintendo nerd is reviewing in his videocasts. Many Japanese games seem to be playable as well because most do not display a lot of text on the screenl. The author of the site seems to be adding new games regularly to the website which is great because some classic ones are still missing in the list.
Update: I had to replace the link as the original website has been removed from the Internet. Arrow keys - MoveEnter - StartCtrl - SelectB-key - ZA-key: X. VideoGamer.com - Your source for everything Video Games - Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, DS, PSP. Yo Frankie! - Free Open Source Platform Game | MakeUseOf.com. We live in an economically ruled society, no denial possible. Nearly everything is based on what you own and what you might own, compared to what others own. Especially in such a society, it’s nice to see something ‘unconditional’ from time to time. “Let’s make something, and not only give it away for free, but also show the world exactly how we pulled it off.
Let’s allow them a look behind the scenes and allow them to work further on those principles”. Open source is what it’s called and it’s a wonderful idea. Yo Frankie! ‘Codename Apricot’ – Yo Frankie! The Blender Foundation is showing the world that open source can replace those extremely pricy, high-end applications. FLTR: Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny Then the Apricot project came along. The main character, Frankie, was already featured as the antagonist in Big Buck Bunny (it’s the scared squirrel from above), but also the levels feel very familiar. The Game Yo Frankie! The game is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Xfire - Gaming Simplified. TweakGuides.com. Red vs. Blue · News.
Anarchy Online·:.· :. .· .Play For Free!·:.· : .· . Liberated Games. A Website for the Older Gamer - 2old2play. Galactic Civilizations. Home of Scapinos VPins. Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads. The Rockstar Classics collection is our series of complimentary full PC game downloads, provided exclusively to members of the Rockstar Games mailing list. These games, each available free of charge and optimized for play on modern PCs, offer a nostalgic trip back in time to the early days of the Rockstar legacy.
Volume 1: Grand Theft Auto - In 1997, a band of developers that would come to be known as Rockstar North and Rockstar Games released the original Grand Theft Auto on an unsuspecting public. The groundbreaking non-linear urban crime game shook up a complacent game industry with its irreverent gameplay, humor and style - and a phenomenon was born. Volume 2: Wild Metal Country - This rare gem from early Rockstar history is a 3D strategic vehicular combat game set in a distant land, in which you command armed roving vehicles to disrupt dangerous automated units that have overtaken the Tehric planetary system.
Volume 3: Grand Theft Auto 2 - Respect is everything. T R E M U L O U S :: NEWS. Ballistic: Game Website. Alien Arena - a fast, fun and free FPS! Grab your BFG and play Doom in your browser - Time Waster - Download Squad. This one really takes me back. As soon as I saw the opening screen, I could picture a dozen people crammed into my dorm room watching my roommate and I deathmatch over our awesome null modem cable. Yes, Doom 1 has been recompiled in Flash from the original source. It plays just like I remembered the original, and could definitely become a giant Time Waster for anyone else who was hooked on Doom when it was first released. Playing through a few levels almost made me forget how terrible the movie was (sorry, Dwayne). There's no music, but I usually had that shut off and listened to my Discman.
All the old cheat codes work as well: in case you've forgotten, IDDQD activates "degreelessness" and IDKFA will enable all weapons, keys, and ammo, and boost your armor to 200%. You'll need Flash 10 to play, and a non-PowerPC computer to run it. By the way: if you also enjoyed Heretic (think Medieval Doom with a crossbow), you can find an updated Shockwave version of it on this site. Thanks, Blake! Fate. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Introduction This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets. I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. And I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will happily run on both those platforms and more.
When I find (or perhaps invent) further puzzle games that I like, they'll be added to this collection and will immediately be available on both platforms. The games Below each image are two links to versions of the puzzle you can play on the web. Licence. Phosphor - Rasterwerks. Planarity.net. Iron Sudoku: Free Daily Sudoku Puzzles and a Friendly Community. Free PC Games, Downloads, Mods, Demos, Patches & Maps. Cheat codes for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS, PSP, and more... Space Hack - Official Web Site. MESSAGE #10 - May 12, 2004 People inhabiting the biospheres suffer from the shortage of energy to power various devices.
The energy cells are therefore especially valuable. They power many kinds of projectile weapon as well as hi-tech items. It led to the situation, that these energy cells became the official currency. You can buy everything for them. Luckily, a big amount of them is scattered in the biospheres and during hero's journey we would have a chance to collect a large number of them. The energy weapon is very effective, but it has one disadvantage - it uses the energy cells, what is not the most economical solution. It is also good to listen to people from the "village". Top 6 Diablo Clones | Casualty Gamer. GamersHell.com - Largest Independent VideoGaming Website (gh3d.com) - GamersHell.com. Gaming Today - News for Gamers. Gaming News, Reviews, Previews, Cheats & Tips. BMO WORLD - Home. Game Over Online Magazine - The Game Has Just Begun. N4G.com : All the latest game news. IshiSoft © 2006. The Spring Project. Virus2 - Today's Time-Waster - Download Squad.
There has been a virus going around my office this week which hasn't been fun. I've got a much better virus that everyone will love spreading around your workplace -- except your boss. I'm not talking about the latest brand of crypto-zoological themed influenza, but rather about Virus 2. The idea behind the game is to spread your virus, represented by a color, as quickly as possible. You can change the color of your virus by clicking on one of the gem icons at the very bottom of the game screen. When the color of the virus changes, you infect all of the gems in that color that are currently touching your virus string.
Sound tedious? Totally addictive. [Thanks Jordan!] Tags: game, time waster, TimeWaster, timewasters, virus. Maniac Mansion Overkill for the Weekend » gHacks tech news. Maniac Mansion was a special adventure that introduced a new way to interact with the environment. It was famous for its humor, the choice of characters and storyline. I remember that I had so much fun playing it with a friend on my good old C-64 exploring every inch of the game. Well, Lucasarts decided to make money with the Star Wars franchise instead of making great games which is rather unfortunate for fans of classic Lucasarts adventures. Some fans decided to create their own versions of Lucasarts games and Maniac Mansion is surely one of the games that fans liked so much that they had to create remakes of it. First there is Maniac Mansion Deluxe, a faithful copy of the original Maniac Mansion game with improved graphics and a interface that reminds me of Day of the Tentacle, the successor of Maniac Mansion.
The goal in Maniac Mansion is to create a team of three students - out of seven available ones - and rescue Sandy who was kidnapped by the evil Dr.Fred. Game for the Weekend Wing Commander Saga » gHacks tech news. Wing Commander back in the 90s was a phenomenal successful game franchise and is still considered one of the best - if not the best - space simulation game that was ever created. It spawned lots of sequels and included cinematic story telling. The Wing Commander series was developed by Origin which was later bought by EA where the game series found an abrupt ending (shame on them). Wing Commander Saga is a free sequel which takes place during and after the events that happened in Wing Commander III. You assume the role of 2nd Lieutenant David Markham, a recent OCS graduate in an accelerated flight training program on an aging, dilapidated carrier in a backwater system.
Things are not always as they seem, however. Join with Markham's wingmates as he gets his first taste of the seemingly inevitable doom that the Kilrathi are preparing to unleash upon the Confederation. Fly patrols, work with your wingmen, and struggle to survive as the final battles for the fate of humanity begin to unfold.