Friday Roundup! (22/05/2009)
By Jessica Citizen - Fri May 22, 2009 3:28pm
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It's sparkling away in a nice little collection of things to keep you busy over the weekend, also including demos from Distant Guns -- The Russo-Japanese War at Sea, P.U.R.E., Project Aftermath, RotoAdventures, SBK: Superbike World Championship 09, Slide Colors, Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser
...not to mention the free games and full clients from Flyff: Fly For Fun, Ghost X, HolyBeast Online, Lineage II, NeoSteam, Nexuiz, Rappelz, The Battle for Wesnoth, Tibia, Voyage Century, Warrior Epic.
Enjoy!
Demo Releases:
| Braid Mac Demo (22/05/2009) Braid is a platformer/puzzle game with unique elements that aim to provide a mind-expanding, filler-free experience. The player journeys across seven worlds to rescue a princess; in each world, time behaves in its own peculiar way. The player must cleverly manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles. |
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| Distant Guns -- The Russo-Japanese War at Sea v1.5 Demo (20/05/2009) Distant Guns is a full 3D Naval Simulation game covering the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05. Individual battles are fought in a 100km x 100km battle space. If a battle nears the edge of the 3d battle space, the game instantly auto-generates a new one based on satellite data covering the entire Northwest Pacific region. In theory, a battle can last for days and hundreds or thousands of miles. The game's graphics engine allows for dynamic lighting and weather changes during battles (which affect ship and weapon performance, as heavy ships can slow down ships), detailed 3d models of 248 historical ships (with every significant weapon and critical location is placed exactly on each model, and armor historically placed and rated for quality, 3D Surround Sound, total 3D camera control, an Astronomical Engine, and much more. Play against up to 16 other players in LAN and internet multiplay. |
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| P.U.R.E. Demo v1.0 (19/05/2009) P.U.R.E. is a large-scale Real Time Strategy game, built using the Spring Engine. Set in a world where Humanity is attempting to wrest their devastated civilization from the evil AI known as the Overmind. |
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| Project Aftermath v1.20 Demo (20/05/2009) In the aftermath of a great war, when your enemy has wiped out everything you hold dear, the time has come to regroup and strike back. Enlist in the Morphid army and use all the weapons and genetic powers at your disposal to eradicate the New Order menace! Project Aftermath is an Arcade RTS game where you command up to four squads of soldiers in exciting battles in a retro-futuristic world. Equip your squads to suit your playing style, researching new items using the spoils of war; choosing from over 100 different weapons, armour, power-up augmentations and spell-like special attacks. |
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| RotoAdventures Momo's Quest v1.3 Demo for PC (20/05/2009) Beautiful handcrafted graphics tell the story of Momo a little squirrel in a life quest for finding his owner. After losing the love of his life, Momo must struggle to survive in a world filled with danger. In this odyssey you’ll have to choose between the dark side and the bright side of life. Either way you’ll forge your destiny through the decisions you make. From an enchanted forest to cybernetic mines and from school to a cursed castle, you will fight to survive and rejoin once again with your beloved owner. What will become of our hero? His future is in your hands. |
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| SBK: Superbike World Championship 09 Demo (21/05/2009) The game is based on the official licence owned by Infront Motor Sports and features new 3D environments, new teams, complete track overhaul, new gameplay structure, new game modes and a revamped user interface. The performance of the motorbikes is based on exact data from their real counterparts and the player can fine-tune every single setting a real race engineer can. |
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| Slide Colors Windows Demo + Linux Demo + Mac Demo (19/05/2009) Spanish independent videogame developer TayKrOn Games has announced the release of Slide Colors, a puzzle game for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using a new game mechanic, Slide Colors is based on the combination of various elements of the same color. You can choose between 3 different game modes - Puzzle Mode, Time Attack and Clear Blocks. |
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| Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser Trial (21/05/2009) The earth is facing destruction by the invading alien army of the Gogoh military. However, they did not know of the existance of Super Electric Research Center, which has invented the supercharged robot Vulkaiser! Now players must use this robot to stop the enemy and save humanity! |
Full Game Releases:
| Flyff: Fly For Fun v13 Closed Beta Client (21/05/2009) In ancient times, five Gods of Lais sought to create a new world with new inhabitants that could live harmoniously among them. They gathered and agreed to create Roika Mainland; their new world. After years of peace, the God's decided to leave Roika Mainland and create a new world. With this, in an attempt to maintain the golden age of Roika mainland the Gods of Lais handed all of the secrets of the land as well as the core part of the revolution-genesis gear over to the kind race of Dwarf. The God's only wish was that the world would remain as beautiful and peaceful as it was in their rule. |
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| Ghost X Full Client (18/05/2009) Ghost X Metro Action RPG |
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| HolyBeast Online English Client (09-05-15) (20/05/2009) Cute animals sometimes evolve into fighting beasts! Beastia, the world of cute beast animals. Eliminate the evil rampaging Insects and restore balance to the world! |
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| Lineage II Chaotic Throne: Gracia Final Live Client (16/05/2009) A free expansion pack to the MMORPG sequel. With numerous improvements for new players and veterans, Lineage II Chronicle 5: Oath of Blood features revitalized Player vs. Player combat, an enhanced clan system, new Castles and Territories, and more. |
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| NeoSteam Early Access Beta Client v090520 (21/05/2009) New world based on steam punk. Mysterious magical nation "Elerd Kingdom" mechnical nation "Republic of Rogwel" and grand natural nation "Taxzn Alliance", The war among these 3 nations to occupy the Neostream. |
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| Nexuiz 2.5.1 Full Client (18/05/2009) Welcome to the Nexuiz project website. Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive).The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since the release the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.1 and new releases being developed. For more screens of the project and a video see the media page on the navbar, and for more questions or infomation see info or faq. If you would like to help out the project, and encourage more development, you can donate to the team through paypal with the donation link in the navbar. Note: You can download the full version of this game from our SourceForge mirror: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nexuiz/ |
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| Rappelz Epic VI, Prologue: Navislamia Full Client + French Full Client + German Full Client (20/05/2009) Rappelz is a FREE to PLAY MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy world, with features designed to appeal to both casual and hardcore players alike. Rappelz comes with extensive lists of quests, allowing users to play solo and/or group up and level at their leisure. Along the way, you will be able to customize your character with a deep job system that allows for unique character builds. You will fight using a combat system that allows the usage of pets, tamed from various parts of the Rappelz world, to fight alongside and assist you. The pets can be leveled up as well, with their own talent and job skills. |
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| The Battle for Wesnoth v1.7.0 (Win) Client + (Mac) Client (21/05/2009) The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures |
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| Tibia V8.42 Win Full Client + Lin Full Client (18/05/2009) Tibia is one of the oldest and most successful massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) created in Europe. In an MMORPG people from all over the world meet on a virtual playground to explore areas, solve tricky riddles and undertake heroic exploits. For 10 years now, players have been visiting the medieval world of Tibia. At present, more than 250,000 players from all over the world inhabit the Tibian continent enjoying the numerous game features. |
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| Voyage Century Online Full Client v0.62 (20/05/2009) Voyage Century is the first 3D nautical online game in MMORPG history. In the game, every featured player is the captain of his or her own battleship, they can sail it around the world as a courageous explorer, a canny merchant or a mysterious pirate, spread their reputation by exploring the huge continents for treasures, fortunes and glory. In the game, players can enjoy all kinds of life experience that the 16th Century people have experienced-- sail on the great ocean, view splendid geographic scenes, appreciate various cultures, do successful business, upgrade their ship according to their wish and most excitingly, participate in all kinds of glorious sea battles from spectacular long-range artillery bombardment between fleet and fleet to close hand-to-hand fight among brave sailors. Independently developed for a total of four years, Voyage Century can bring players a complete online game experience unlike anything else before! |
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| Warrior Epic Full Release Client (22/05/2009) Warrior Epic takes online games and action RPGs into new territory. To begin, the game is free to download and free to play online with no strings attached. Choose several warriors from a large group of specialized classes and play cooperative campaigns or slug it out with friends in PVP. All of this can be set up in a matter of minutes. We are dedicated to bringing out new content such as players, monsters, equipment, and stories every month. |

