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The Best Open Source Games

There are very few polished, highly enjoyable open source games. These are the best that I know about:

A futuristic RTS game. Originally a commercial game was made open source in 2004. Since then the developers have been regularly updating and improving the game . Very under-rated game at the time. Has some innovative ideas like designing your own units . Is a blast when playing multiplayer over a network

Bombermaaan

Faithful remake of the classic SNES Bomberman. The game is fast, slick and is one of the best 4-player games you can play.

Chaos Groove

Remake of the spectrum classic Chaos: Battle of the Wizards. It's a turn-based strategy game - very tactical, and very fun in multiplayer.

Ultrastar Deluxe

Get yourself a pair of singstar mics and croon away to your hearts delight and find out how terrible you are. Very fun game that anyone can have a go at.

Frets on Fire

Guitar Hero for PC, feels surprisingly natural with the keyboard controls. Very good game with plenty of tracks available on the interweb.

Armagetron

Tron like game. Good multiplayer. Simple to play - lightning reflexes are required.

PokerTH

very good interpretation of the ever-popular card game.great to practice on without losing money.

0AD

special mention to what looks like is going to be a fantastic RTS game in the mould of Age of Empires.

18/05/2010 permalink | Posted in games | 0 Comments »

PC games that support the 360 controller

I'm a living room gamer whose platform of choice is the PC. I believe the 360 controller is the finest games controller ever constructed and is the controller of choice for PC gaming.

Most new PC games support the 360 controller. A lot of older games and some new games don't support the controller out of the box - or even at all.

Here are some games that support the xbox controller:

Batman Arkham Asylum
Braid
Crysis
Gears of War
Lost Planet: extreme condition
Micro Machines V4
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
Prototype
Resident Evil 5
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Tomb Raider Legend
Tomb Raider Underworld
TrackMania
Trine
Wolverine Unleashed

And some more games with 360 controller support.

04/01/2010 permalink | Posted in games | 6 Comments »

Joe Danger

The 2010 Independent Games Festival Finalists have been announced. I had a look through the nominations for the coveted Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Previous winners include the excellent Crayon Physics Deluxe. Independent games are made by small teams of independent developers. Because of this a lot of independent games can lack in areas like graphics, sound and presentation - especially when compared against commercial offerings. However they almost always have a great gameplay element to them. Unfortunately that isn't always enough for casual gamers who can't look past such obvious flaws. So when an independent game does come along with great sound, graphics, presentation you have to sit up and take notice. From the leaked gameplay footage I've seen - Joe Danger ticks all of these boxes. It's set for release in the spring for PC/ xbox/ PSN and will support splitscreen multiplayer. I for one can not wait.

04/01/2010 permalink | Posted in games | 0 Comments »