I’m still at the stage where I just mash the attack and evade buttons in combat. The first video above shows a simple but better technique by evading enemies with jumps and the second one is the “Perfect Freeflow 2.0” achievement showing how to do the following moves in slow […]
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Wing Commander IV
Oh look what I found at home a few days ago! A boxed copy of Wing Commander IV for Windows 95 and DOS. I have never even played this and honestly don’t remember buying it but since GOG have just released the third game in the series I should give […]
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Four Free Games
Spelunky looks like a modern day Rick Dangerous and that gets my thumbs up! Dig n Rig reminds me of Terraria but it’s not. SkyIsland is a fairly cool browser based platformer with a 3D twist! A Flipping Good Time is a 2D platformer with a gravity twist. Of those […]
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Humble Bundle #3
The latest Humble Bundle is out featuring Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVV, And Yet it Moves and Hammerfight. I already have most of the games, I don’t have Cogs and Hammerfight, but I’ll buy the bundle anyway. It’s a good deal as it’s “pay what you want”!
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It would seem that friends playing together is…
It would seem that friends playing together is regarded as team stacking in Team Fortress 2. On one hand that’s great because the server is free to balance teams but it sucks when you want to play with friends you’re chatting with on Skype. Any notion of playing strategically as […]
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Who wants free games?
The Sun are giving away Arma II, Men of War and Tower Bloxx Deluxe. Get the codes here. You’ll need to create an account on Green Man Gaming but the codes work and cost nothing, but only for this weekend!
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Respect the PC Gamers
(via) It’s a well known fact that console gamers are scrubs, they’re abusive and unhelpful and rude. They’ll cheat and hack their consoles given half a chance. Isn’t that right? PC gamers on the other hand are enthusiastic and helpful. They’re mature and civil about their communities. They delight in […]
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Gaming History in Pictures
A few games I found recently while sorting through boxes at home: Quake 3 tin box, Linux edition. I wrote an article about this for the Irish Times a few years ago. Double Dragon, C64 version, I posted pictures of this before of course. Gyroscope, the first 5 1/4 disk […]
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Steam games on the cheap
The wonderful thing about PC games is the competition among online retailers and the lower than console prices charged for most games. While Xbox Live now has older full price games for download they’re usually given a premium price too. Steam and the other online PC game stores regularly have […]