OpenArena is a free (GPL) content package for the Quake III Arena engine (with which it comes packaged). Essentially you download and run this 72.8 MB installer and end up with a free first person shooter based on the QIIIA engine. The graphics are not too bad (for free that is) and it supports single …

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Is Battlefield 2142 a worthy followup to EA Games’ Battlefield 2?

Well, there are some problems. Though it is set on the battlefield of the future, replete with mechs and drones and hover tanks, BF 2142 is not really even a major upgrade to BF 2. It’s more like… Battlefield 2.142.

That said, there are some interesting elements to the game that make it intriguing. The weaponry is futuristic but that future is not far off and modern weapons remain nearly unchanged.

More of the review, videos, and screenshots…

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This is just awesome. The Battlefield 2 Bunny Hop Bravia commercial. Like no other indeed.

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Well, there are some problems. …WinterbellsWinterbells is a wonderfully-addicting Flash game from …

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Simon Tatham has written a collection of puzzle games for Windows, Linux, and Max OSX. Someone has also ported them to the Palm.
Lots of Puzzles
There are 24 puzzles that range from a sliding tile game called Fifteen and a Color-the-Map game, to Dominoes, Solo (basically Sudoku), Mine Sweeper, Untangle, and others. You can download them …

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Don’t know who wrote this DHTML and Javascript game, but it’s kind of fun. Called either Red Square or Escape or Escapa.
Click and drag the red square around, avoiding the other moving shapes as best you can. The game ends when there’s a collision.
Nearly everywhere I see this game says “if you make it to …

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The recent Sudoku craze began in late 2004 when Wayne Gould convinced The Times of London to take a chance on a puzzle that had been invented (anonymously) by Howard Garns in 1979 and published by Dell magazines as Number Place. Gould, a retired judge and computer programmer, had written software for the game. His …

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Microsoft has released an early preview of Flight Simulator X for downloading. For now, it doesn’t require Windows Genuine Advantage to run, woo hoo on that.
This is how they see it:
Flight Simulator X immerses you in a beautifully rich and realistic world with dozens of aircraft and interactive Missions for a completely new and innovative …

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Bang Howdy, a wild-west game from the creators of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, Three Rings Design, is in an open beta test. As they descibe it, it’s a “multiplayer online tactical strategy game in a 3D Wild West setting, yee haw!”
It is a fun action-strategy game, though it’s definitely still beta quality. The game sports …

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GamePressure.com has a game guide that includes a complete walkthrough for Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter for the PC. They walkthrough a warmup and each objective of every mission in the game. If you play GRAW, check it out.
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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for the PC is a fantastic game. Fantastic, that is, until it freezes.
I have consistently run into problems with the graphics freezing while the game continues. The latest update (1.10) is installed and drivers are current. Surely there is some magical combination of pre-render settings or XML tweaks or other hokus …

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