19 Jan 09 Freeware Games – My Favs (Part 3) – Glest
This is a great real-time strategy game, where you are in command of the armies of two different factions: Magic, which prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield and Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and their mechanical devices.
Glest screen snapshot
Glest is also an open engine that can be used to create new strategy games. The engine is based on XML and contains a set of tools for designers. A few mods already exist.
Released: December 2004
Download link (51 MB): Download here
Tags: freeware games, strategy game
08 Jan 09 Freeware Games – My Favs (Part 2) – The Suffering
Finally got around to writing about my second fav freeware game thanks to the response my first instalment.
In The Suffering, players take on the role of Torque, a man how has been convicted of atrocious crime of murdering his family – guilty or innocent? Is the question. He’s sentenced to life in Abbott State Penitentiary, a haunted place that hides a terrible past, one that threatens all humans in the penitentiary, prison guards and the hardened criminals. The game was released in 2004 by Midway but only became a free download in late 2008.
Torque’s tale unfolds in 9 levels, where mutated creatures, fellow prisoners slightly on the side and prison guards lurk around every corner. A variety of lethal weapons are at his disposal which are needed to survive and escape from this hellhole. In addition, Torque has a “rage meter”, which filled, transforms him into a gruesome and ferocious creature that looks and feels right at home with the other dozen monstrosities stalking his every move. Torque will be able to interact with other inmate NPC’s and enlist their help in escaping, or take them out if they get in his way.
The Suffering also has 3 distinct possible endings depending on how you play the game. In revealing Torque’s story, he could be a cold-blooded killer, a man wrongfully accused, or something far, far worse.
Developer: Surreal Software
Released: June 2004
Official Website
Download links (1.26 GB):
GamersHell
04 Jan 09 Freeware Games – My Favs – TrackMania Nations Forever
This is intended to be a multi-part, since I’ve got about 10 favs. Lets see how we gone, let my know if you want more….
One of my fav freeware games ever is, TrackMania Nations Forever. The game lets you drive at mind blowing speeds on challenging and visually stunning tracks in 2 different modes – solo and multiplayer. Nations Forever released a new “Forever” version in 2008 based on the Stadium environment, it comes with a solo mode and 65 brand new tracks that get progressively more difficult as you become proficient. TrackMania Nations Forever will unite the large number of players than the original Nations had thanks to its engaging multiplayer modes, innovative online functions and innovative interactivity between players.
For TrackMania Nations Forever, Nadeo studio chose to take benefit from the modern PC’s capabilities as a gaming, creative and communications platform in order to allow a larger number of players to share a combined gaming experience.
Developer: Nadeo
Released: April 2008
Official Website
Download links (503 MB):
GamersHell
FileFront
Gamezone
03 Jan 09 History of Flash Games
Macromedia Flash arrived in 1996, and was initially designed to add animation and interactivity to otherwise largely media free websites. However, it wasn’t long before developers began to realise the potential of the software, and added functionality became available with each iteration.
In the beginning, the focus was more on animation, as primitive scripting allowed little in the way of interactivity. However, with the introduction of ActionScript in version 5, Flash became a strong platform for developing simple web-based games. This transition from basic animation and user interaction to full-blown scripting was a huge step for developers, and allowed sophisticated web-based applications and interactive games possible.
By 2001, Flash games began appearing on websites everywhere, and whilst early attempts were primitive and tended to focus on remakes of arcade classics such as Asteroids and Tempest, they remained highly popular amongst the online community. Despite their initial popularity, Flash games were known as little more than addictive time-fillers, perfect to whittle away ten minutes at work.
However, even with the basic tools in place, developers were coming up with a wide variety of Flash based games. Platform remakes of favorites such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario Brothers were highly popular, and the improving graphic capabilities allowed for much more immersing game play. Although PC and console games had little to worry about in terms of competition, Flash games were already an integral part of many online communities. The integration of Flash arcades into popular forum software led to vast competition between members of small and large communities alike. It wasn’t a case of wasting five or ten minutes anymore, it was about coming top on the scoreboard!
There were still problems though, particularly with performance on lower specification machines. As Flash was not designed to run games in particular, it was inevitably not that quick or smooth running on some machines, which inhibited many action games. That was all set to change significantly with the next version.
With the release of Flash MX in 2004 came ActionScript 2.0, which allowed greater control over Flash applications, and featured improved data and media handling. Although most genres had already been explored, from arcade to first person shooters to racing games, the best was yet to come. The recent integration of improved data handling allowed many game developers to implement levels and scoreboards much more effectively, thus adding to the appeal.
Since 2004, Flash games have come on in leaps and bounds, and are hardly recognizable from the slow, blocky titles released just a few short years ago. The level of sophistication continues to develop, and whilst it will be a long while before something groundbreaking is released, there are already many classic Flash games already available on the web. Titles such as ‘Stick Cricket’, ‘Bejeweled’ and ‘Yeti Sports’ are all immensely popular, and attract thousands of visitors each day. The playability and execution of a simple idea make these Flash games some of the most popular ever released.
The sites that offer these free games are also changing; the public do not have to visit individual sites (such as the authors website) to find new games, instead developers are submitting their games to massive “flash games” websites – sites that offer 1000′s of games for free – one such example is www.itsall3.com – a site with free games, and free funny videos for your mobile phones (3gp videos).
What are the benefits to developers submitting their games to such massive collections of games? These arcade sites receive 1000′s of visitors a day, so developers game get more hits – there’s no bandwidth costs as the sites host the games, and there’s always a link in the game back to the developers website if needed.
These enthusiasts are not too dissimilar from the back bedroom programmers of the early 1990′s. Many young developers thrived upon the availability of programming languages such as BASIC, and the more recent arrival of Flash sparked the same levels of creativity and inspiration. Although Flash contains more scripting than actual programming, the underlying appeal of being able to create your own games (relatively) easily has been a major part of its success.
Perhaps Adobe/Macromedia will lean towards the game creation side in the future, or perhaps the focus will always be on animation and the development of web-based applications. Either way, there is no doubting that Flash games have become an integral part of the web and are set to stay for the foreseeable future. With the next version in the pipeline, it will be interesting to see what the next generation of Flash games have in store.
Tags: flash games
27 Dec 08 Download free game pc video on your personal computer
Download free game pc video is a computer controlled game. It’s an action game based on dream work and animation movie which attract kids to give their more attention on games. It’s a interactive personalized game played for entertainment on your computer.
A pc video game is a computer game where a video display such as monitor or television is required as its an primary feedback device. The pc video game also includes sound and vibration but very few new games in this category.
You can software in the market or else the software can be easily downloaded from net.
Many website allow you free download of software. Without any registration you can download free pc video game.
In video games you can get many different types of game, you can go for the game which you have liked most and wants to play it again and again. Once you have downloaded you favorite game you can play it according to your convenience.
If you are confused between games you can test with demo which is provided on every website and download it afterwards.
Free download game allows you to enjoy your game without any disturbance as if you are playing it online it may happen you may loss your internet connection which spoils your mood and you may be not interested to play it again. Today only get your favorite game downloaded on your pc and enjoy fullest.
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21 Dec 08 Free iPhone games to download
In order to download some free games for your iphone, there will be a few things you need. Number one is an iPhone, obviously, so congratulations if you managed to get your hands on one. On top of the Iphone, you will also need a computer, and an internet connection. The computer doesn’t have to be the most hi-tech in the world, anything in the last 5 or 6 years should be fine.
Having said that, a five or six year old internet connection will probably not cut the mustard here. The slower your connection, the longer your downloads will take. That’s not to say it won’t work-if you are stuck with a dial up connection, you can still download things just fine, it will take a little longer is all.
Something else you will need is a hard drive large enough to take the downloads, and don’t forget the game will be ending up on your Iphone, so you’ll need enough space on that too. Once you’re sure you have all the required stuff, you are about ready to start downloading free Ipod games.
The hardest thing about this is knowing where to find the games. Over the last few years it seems like the whole world has gone crazy for torrent or P2P sites-it seemed like everyone I knew was downloading everything from there. True, you could get free stuff like that, but it’s pretty dangerous, and is it worth getting into trouble with the law just for a free game or whatever? The other main problem with the torrent sites is that a lot of hackers etc, upload files there under false names, so you may think you’re downloading sonic the hedgehog only to find that you are downloading some kind of virus or trojan which will give the hacker access to your computer. Not too cool huh?
For some reason, a few people still do access the torrent sites for their downloads, even though there are some pretty cool safe alternatives around these days. The way these new kinds of sites work is that you pay a one of joining fee, say $35 or $50, and then you get access to their downloads. The downloads are super fast, and you usually get unlimited downloads too.
As you’ve seen, there’s more than meets the eye if you are looking to download games to iPhone, but hopefully this article has given you some ideas.
Tags: download iphone games for free, iphone games downloads
13 Dec 08 Free Video Games For Your PC
There are so many video games out there that are free it is amazing that Xbox, Nintendo, and Playstation stay in business. It would be impossible to pin down all the free video games out there, because there are so many out there. So we have compiled a list of the best video game resources on the internet.
Flash Games
Flash Games are made in a program called Adobe Flash and are available for you to play online in your web browser. There are many websites offering free games but here are your top 3 places to go to play hundreds of video games:
RPGs and Immersive World Games
RPG, or Role Playing Games, are worlds where you immerse yourself in the game taking on a new role as your character. Often these games are associated with fantasy settings but aren’t always just fantasy. These games listed below are free to play, but require a subscription or points to access extra features such as character add-ons and costumes.
First Person Shooters
One of the most popular game genres is the FPS, or First Person Shooter, like Halo or Call of Duty being some of the big commercial games. But people don’t realize there are other high quality free games out there. Here are the top free first person shooters:
Other Resources
As mentioned there are so many free game sources out there, no one could ever play them all(or list them all for that matter), but for another great list of free video games check out this link at Wikipedia.
Tags: Free Video Games, freeware
12 Aug 08 Who Wants to be a Millionaire flash game
just like the popular TV show hosted by Chris Tarrant answer questions & test your general knowledge. play for fun.
click here to download this free game. its small. just about 733kb.
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Tags: flash games
21 Jul 08 Super Mario download for free
it is the first mario game i ever played & i still love it than other new versions. it is just the translation of the classic NES game. the best thing i have found is that almost nothing has changed in gameplay from the original version. some complain about its lack of sound but that doesn’t bother me at least. it is so small (just about 70kb) that anybody can download.
those who have always loved to play this game instead of the new clones you can download this free game clicking here.
Tags: Super Mario
09 Mar 08 Download C-Dogs for free
the much better sequel of CyberDogs, a cult classic in dosgames history. the game involves you taking your character on missions which usually involve shooting anything around using a variety of weapons that can be bought before missions. many more options are available in this version, one of the most interesting being an editor that allows you to create your own C-Dogs campaigns. so if you are a dosgames lover try this one of the best top-down viewed action games ever made.
click here to download this epic freeware game by Ronny Wester.
Tags: C-Dogs
