I continue to play Cave Story and have acquired the Missile Launcher. I don’t have to much time now since my classes at the university have started, woohoo for JAVA.
Anyway I just remembered a game I used to play to death over the summer with my friends. It’s called Generally and is an overhead racer that is extremely addictive. You can also make your own tracks and cars with some utilities. Very good game and thought that anyone who likes racing games should give it a try.
bloodymonkey.com/ - NaaC
Great freeware Smash TV clone. Or Crimsonland in case anyone’s played that.
Nice graphics, great controls, several fun weapons & power ups, a nice combo system, various enemy types including bosses, and two different modes of play.
Online high scores table for added fun (spot my name there!).
Thread revival for another gem by the creator of Egoboo (for those who know of that). It’s a fun little dungeon crawler and he claims that if enough people pay up (you can actually activate it without paying, similar to mIRC I guess) he will release the online portion of it. Anyway, click below.
aaronbishopgames.com/
And some videos that were done sometime before the game was finalised.
Wizard:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 6&q=soulfu
Soldier with pet/mount:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 6&q=soulfu
popopt.com/games/nimian_flyer_final.htm
Keep an eye out for when that will be released (I probably won’t be here to let you know!). It’s the final sequel to those panzer-ish flash shooters (find them on the same website but keep in mind they’re quite old and not without issues). It looks like it’s gonna be quite advanced.
so-room.com/contents/flashgames/aquaria2.php
Neat flash adventure game. Somewhat Myst like in some ways.
Valve Software will be releasing Alien Swarm for free in about 9 hours. The game is a cooperative shooter with a top down perspective. A team of space marines will attempt to complete missions but also surivve in alien infested areas. It’s basically a Source engine remake of one of the best UT2004 mods. Valve hired the team, had them work on Left 4 Dead (hence the similarities, replacing the aliens with zombies and making the latter first person) among other games, but also on this on the side.
The Source engine SDK will also be available with this free release, so, this is pretty big news for the community as for the first time you can both play, and edit, Valve’s gameplay and engine without even buying anything. I suppose it’s maybe something to compete with the release of the Unreal Development Kit (among other free kits like Unity’s), in which case it’s very smart to release it with a game people will want to play.
While it’s similar to Left 4 Dead, if it resembles the original UT2004 mod (and from the released screenshots and videos, it seems to) it’s a much harder game, and has quite a few differences as, for example, you won’t be finding new weapons within the missions, you’ll only choose your loadout before one, but also get to use skill points and upgrade your marines between missions. There are different classes like heavy weapons, medic, hacker, and gadgets like flares that illuminate areas and give slight auto aim to your team, welders that can seal doors and delay the swarm, hacking tools to open doors and use security systems, deployable turrets, stun mines, stim packs, and many more. There may also be branching paths in the campaigns as players choose which mission to tackle next. Among the differences mentioned for the remake are permanent upgrade unlocks (like Call of Duty and now TF2 I guess?) and achievements (meh).
The UT2004 mod version was extremely fun, even if on the harder difficulties people rarely finished a campaign. The tension it created and the play style it demanded from the players were unique and exciting. I figure that since this is an 100% free game it perhaps won’t have the same amount of content other Valve games do (too few alien types? too few campaigns? etc) but with the included SDK the community will surely fix that in time. A few crazy people will probably even remake the original mod’s campaigns.
Gameplay video.
(though it’s just random shootouts, it doesn’t show the coordination it requires)
I’m seriously gonna pick that up. Love 4-player coops like nothing else. 
(Well, except maybe Panzer Dragoon.)
Anyone else grabbing it? We could arrange some coop matches.
i’ll pick it up, nice find!
Dino Strike
It’s basically a flash based rip off of Capcom’s classic brawler Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, right down to having the same exploit of dash attacking everything. Whatever, it’s fun and he did add some nice touches, like the dinosaurs helping you after you’ve freed them. With a few more characters, bosses, enemy types, some cheesy “cut scenes” and co-op, it could pass as a sequel. I’m not sure if some sprites are ripped. I haven’t seen the original in some time, obviously, but some Dinosaurs seem too similar, though they didn’t have robotic parts in Capcom’s game. Anyway, the first play through is a pushover but you unlock more difficulties, and there are online scoreboards on top of that.
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5448/dinosp.jpg
These are older but I guess I wasn’t posting at the time.
Merry Gear Solid 1
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Merry Gear Solid 2
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2 is far superior, but 1 is still worth playing to get all the jokes in 2. They’re Christmasy parodies of MGS1 & 2. And now he’s working on a 3rd game, with awful 3D. Win!
I’m now on a new trip. Canabalt! Run fast(heck you can’t even control your speed). Jump fast. Die fast. Watch crap fall apart around you as a doomsday-esque techno song plays in the background. It’s brilliant.
It can be found on Addictinggames and various other places if you google it.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs had a video game?
Mission in Snowdriftland - Slippery ice flash platformer by Nintendo made to help promote various indie games available on WiiWare (and some of them elsewhere too). You finish levels and unlock goodies like avatars and wallpapers. It’s pretty neat.
Ninja Senki is a great free Mega Man style platformer. 16 levels with no saving so make time for a full playthrough.
Streets of Rage Remake is a great fan remix of SEGA’s loved franchise. It combines elements and content from 1, 2, and 3, allows you to set the rules and mechanics as combinations of any of those games, has new cut scenes, enemies, playable characters, bosses, a ton of unlockables, and much more. It’s playable solo, or with the help of a CPU character, or 2 player (no online). The game is also editable with its own tools so you could make your own custom content once you’re done with it. This was originally going to be the final version, but a few bugs were discovered so they planned to do another release to fix those as well as tone down the difficulty for all the modes except for Mania. Sadly, this wasn’t meant to be. SEGA has sent them a cease & desist but there are many mirrors to get the game from still, like this one.
Screenshots.
And some random gameplay videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNd9RzXLKzM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1PWIjzU9HQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10M58M93zE)
Why did they do it with the SoR2 art style? Am I the only one who was didn’t likechange from SoR1 to SoR2? SoR1’s was perfect.
A.R.C. Squadron isn’t intended to be free but it currently is so it fits here I guess. It’s a multiplayer combat flight game that’s got great, simple controls and unique visuals, made with Unreal Engine 3. It’s extremely early in development but I quite like what I’ve played of it. The latest patch also added a single player speed run course that’s quite challenging on top of the main team deathmatch and capture the orb modes. Here are a few screenshots:
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(http://i.picpar.com/0b2acdc5c4f60e6b0b8a3e671f65e87e461d3364.png)
(http://i.picpar.com/51b20337997c2200dce725b96d78f5b2bd6a24d1.png)
(http://i.picpar.com/e06ec65d35d1a429fec852aa681297c8b6ba39fe.png)
Streets of Rage Remake?s bugfix release hasn?t been officially dismissed, so I?m still hoping (pending resolution of the Sega issue) we get it.
That online play was scrapped was somewhat disappointing, but I?m much more likely to pester my dad for a game (as in our olden days of SoR2 co-ops) than anyone online, anyway.
just been doing my annual scrounge for Xfiles stuf on the net and came across the game Area 51, was released as freeware… well worth playing. mite have to bust out a older pc though. doest play well on a 64bit op sys
Realm of the Mad God is out of beta and better than ever. It’s a flash online action RPG that plays like a free roaming shmup yet has stats, loot, potions, loads of classes, mini bosses, bosses, towns, vendors, pets, etc. And perma death. The tutorial alone is pretty fun/ny.
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