Seems like a good day to be a PC gamer. Firstly, to mark the 25th anniversary of Battletech, Smith & Tinker are allowing Mektek.net, a Mechwarrior community site, to give away Mech Warrior 4 and all of its expansions for free, to go with the announcement of a new Mechwarrior game. Blimey, that’s a lot of stompy robots for better than cheap. While they haven’t quite launched it yet, keep an eye on the website for download details. Mechwarrior 4…
I know we’re a little late with this one, but A New Zero is definitely worth a look for the three readers we have who don’t also read Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Also, due to the fact that it’s in a constant state of improvement, my impressions might just be different from all the others have written. And not just because the game I’m playing is different. I’m special, you know.
Another gem unearthed on the TIGSource forums. White Butterfly is a vertical shooter that’s a little bit different, although I’m not sure entirely why. It could be the aesthetics, which are lovely in a very soft curves, deadly plasma way, and that, coupled with the sparsity of colour on display certainly help. The weapons have a very unique feel, even if some of them seem rather generic at first. Maybe it’s because it’s so cripplingly hard, despite having such a…
This is the fourth in a series of analysis I’m doing on the IGF Finalists. Dyson has been around for a while, but it’s still very good, if very, very hard. I’m going to start this article with a disclaimer: I’m pretty pap at strategy games. The only ones I’ve ever been any good at were things like Company of Heroes, and even then I only work well when I’ve got two friends covering my sides. The problem with me…
TIGSource clued me onto this particular stand alone mod for Quake 3 (the next iteration of the engine used by Gravity Bone) called Smokin’ Guns, which takes the legacy of the Western Mod of Quake and turns it into it’s own thing, complete with bank robberies, duels and, of course, much knifings, ’cause, ya’know, everyone was knifing everyone back then. I rustled up a group of friends to play the game with (due to me inexplicably having no servers to…