Posts Tagged “Games”
I just noticed that Portal 2 now has a store where you can modify your robot. I like the way Valve monetize their games. They bring out free DLC, expanding older games with updates and offering them either free (TF2) or at a steep discount. Then they encourage you to buy hats and personalise your [...]
Yay, they bring the one thing I didn’t like about playing PC Battlefield games to the consoles. I could not care less about what server I play. I just want to squad up with my friends and play a game. Now, let me play with a keyboard and mouse and I’ll be happy. I’ve had [...]
One of the great things about Minecraft is that you can pack a level into one nice compressed archive. r/Minecraft on Reddit have a number of servers (I think) and this is one of them. You can download that world from here, it’s pveRev6.tar.gz but there are lots of other worlds there to check out [...]
Well, 2012 has turned out to be quite a year for retro computing. The Commodore 64 turned 30 this year, Jack Tramiel died, and the ZX Spectrum is 30 years old too! I have fond memories of the original 48K ZX Spectrum. Even though it had a tiny rubber keyboard it suited my much younger [...]
The Irish Indie Bundle is looking for submissions. Follow the discussion on Facebook too. Will there be extra marks if it’s as Gaeilge? (via)
It’s been a good few months for the 8 bit versions of Prince of Persia. Last October saw the release of a C64 version. Yesterday the original source code for the Apple II version was uploaded to github! Read about how Jason Scott recovered that source code from 20 year old disks (similar to what [...]
If you want a humorous FPS and have $2.99 to spare you can’t really get any better than Giants: Citizen Kabuto. It’s 50% off right now as part of an Interplay promotion at GOG. It’s an old game, released back in the dawn of time (or the year 2000, whichever came first) but it holds [...]
The Gothic Bundle on Steam was 150% off a few minutes ago. Steam were going to pay me 25 Euro to buy their bundle. Pity I couldn’t add it to my shopping cart ..
