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A blog about all aspects of PC gaming: commercial, shareware and freeware. My tastes tend to veer towards adventure games and RPGs, but I'll give pretty much anything a go. New games or retro, they'll all get a mention. First impressions, mini-revie
Recent Posts Tagged With 'freeware'
Hornado - a fantastic freeware oldschool shoot-\'em-up
Someone (who shall remain nameless, but they knows who they are!) expressed the view quite recently that freeware was a waste of time, and that if anyone came up with a good game they'd charge money for it. I can understand why people might think th...
Just Basic
Budding programmers may be interested to know (if they don't already know, of course) that among the plethora of programming languages out there, there is one that is similar enough to traditional BASICs to be easy to learn, yet also powerful and fle...
First Thoughts - Shai-la of the Sith
Have had a look at Shai-la of the Sith now... looks and sounds pretty good but then you'd expect that as most (all?) of the GFX and SFX are ripped from commercial titles. The gameplay was just starting to get interesting when it crashed. At the mom...
Freeware News - "Kingdom o' Magic" Remake
I have to admit that I don't remember playing the original game, but so far this looks like it's going to be amazing (and possibly the biggest AGS game ever made) - check the development log here and grab the demo here. (Just to warn those with slow ...
More posts soon, I promise!
Sorry folks, been a bit caught up in other things... Will be posting reviews of Battle for Middle Earth and Full Throttle within a couple of days, if things go to plan of course.In the meantime there's an AGS game just been released that you definit...
