there seems (to me, anyway) to be a downward spiral at the moment where more people are pirating because of stricter drm 

of course, i realize it's not *just* because of that. nothing is that simple. 

didn't know you guys were baseball fans... 

a couple of flash games with boiled-down "coop" puzzles. you control multiple entities, toggle between them, and solve puzzles.

http://lightforce.freestuff.gr/threesome.php

http://www.kongregate.com/games/sebby_man/two-rooms 

How well does it run, yo? 

Don't think it requires such a top of the line pc, it ran very well with all settings maxed, but my vid card is pretty new. 

My girlfreind's netbook will run it on Medium:

9300 M GS (8400 equiv) 256 dedicated
Vista (!)
2Gb DDR2 667
5400rpm HDD
Atom 270 (1.6Ghz)

Runs OK, occasional mild stuttering, but y'know - it's a Netbook!

Brilliant game. I run 1920x1200 on an 8800GTS on High! :)

Buy it...... 

running on high settings on my laptop (2ghz core 2 duo, mobile 8600gt, 2gb ram, XP) at 1280x800, getting a good 30fps. 

Off topic-ing a bit more, my personal favourite media industry tactic is using download statistics as a lost profit model.

This means that every time an album is downloaded, they count it as an (~)15$ loss of earnings that can be written off against profits to avoid paying tax. ie, for every album downloaded the publishing company makes ~1$ in taxes they don't have to pay. Whether the downloader would have bought the album or not, the publisher makes money (and the artist gets screwed). 

You're joking. Big business are such scum. Maybe someone will get a chance to give G.W.B. a bullet now.
<Loosen collar>

Fallout 3 does look amazing :>.. saw it briefly on a 360. I played Industri/Tenebrae for the first time too. Nice looking Q1 engine. 

 

Yeh.

Yeh. I know. 

pretty cool, liked it better than the second one (combat is heaps less frustrating) and although some of the puzzle design is a bit tired in spots, very satisfying on the whole. 

Oldschool point and click adventure game:

http://www.zombie-cow.com/?page_id=17 

And I donated 2 quid. Genuinely fun to play. 

this game is shit 

 

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/481906 

the "Goldeneye : Source" team released beta3 of their mod this/last week, and its fucking awesome.

Anyone who had some serious GE64 matches in their time wont be able to help raising a smile here, its a very faithful recreation of the multiplayer experience.

http://goldeneyesource.net/

Around 500mb for the Beta3 client, and worth every second it takes to download imo :) 

Eye of the storm for HL2 Episode 2

http://eots.half-life2.cz/english.php

Is part 1 of a single player episode that has very high quality standards, its still downloading here so I can't give a more accurate description but the screenshots look niiiiice 

A "very faithful recreation" indeed. GE64 bland ugly levels turned me off even back then.. 

IGN score of 8.3. The video review does a good job of showing what's improved from FEAR - mainly the gripes I had about repetitive environments and gameplay are primarily fixed, and it does look a lot better than FEAR did.

Anyone else on the fence about this one? 

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/bejeweled.aspx

This is the most awesome UI mod ever! Its bejeweled that we all know and love, and you can play it in WoW while waiting for your raid to form or while you are flying around.

Even better, it has a high scores list that is populated by everyone in your guild that has the addon, also it adds a Bejeweled profession that you can "skill up" by getting combos and special jewels etc, it also has achievements and challenges that also add to your bejeweled skill rating.

I mentioned it in guild chat today and now practically everyone has it :) Great fun 

i kept trying to get people gkicked if they didn't turn off the stupid skillup notice in guild chat, but my guild leader is too nice. :P 

My name is ___ and I'm 14 months clean.

I'm not allowed to play anymore...