Archive for the 'Gaming' Category
Had a random desire yesterday to play with some games development stuff just to use the old brain cells for a bit and strangely it seems to have coincided with a three companies releasing free or at least free for non-commercial use versions of their tools.
In what seems a fair order:
DarkBASIC Pro
DBPro (along with blitzbasic) [...]
November 5th, 2009 | Posted in Development, Gaming, Media | No Comments
Games don’t get much simpler than “Cat Gets 100 Stars” but it’s definitly a fun little one to play through. As the name suggests you need to control the cat in order to collect 100 stars.
It’s a little trickier than it looks though.
June 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
Love the artwork in this free browser game. Some really nice characters…I want a tshirt!
It’s actually a pretty fun little platform/adventure game though I haven’t played it through yet.
April 24th, 2009 | Posted in Gaming, Media | 1 Comment
Telltale games are giving away a free game to anyone who signs up for their newsletter by 28th Febuary.
You get a choice of either Sam & Max: Ice Station Santa and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Dangeresque 3.
I’ve played most of the Sam & Max games and they are well worth a go [...]
February 4th, 2009 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
Can’t afford expensive shiny cars to drive at stupid speeds? Why not head over to Mercedes-Benz and grab a copy of their CLC Dream Test Drive game, released to promote celebrate the launch of the new something or other I couldn’t ever afford.
Project Gotham it ain’t but it is a fun little racer and you [...]
July 11th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | 12 Comments
Yahoo has announced a plan to make many of their games free to play by having them ad-supported. It’s good news for those who like their games ‘casual’, and by casual they usually mean simple yet as addictive as a crack sandwich.
[via Reuters]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Thursday it would offer its [...]
July 11th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
From the mind that brought us the superb Crayon Physics comes the brief little match-3 type puzzle game, Planet of the Jellies.
There isn’t a great deal to the game but I just love the presentation and it does have that strange hypnotic effect that these sorts of games have.
Most of all I love the music, [...]
June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
Escape the pyroclastic wall of doom and find your dino sanctuary.
Love this great browser game from Pixeljam Games.
Old school graphics and gameplay but really nice presentation and dinosaurs…what more could you want.
It’s a kind of speed platformer/race game where you play a lovely pixelated dinosaur, trying to escape the big wall of doom threatening your [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media, Music, Video | No Comments
From the people at Flashbang Studios who brought us “Off-road Velociraptor Safari“, comes their next game “Jetpack Brontosaurus“.
Seriously do I have to write any more than the name Jetpack Brontosaurus to get you to go and play the thing!
It’s currently available as an alpha build and you’ll need to install the Unity plugin as it [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Media | No Comments