The best games every Tuesday that I have found and written about at my games website Take 9. I do like to play games every now and then and have discovered many throughout the years. At least one game is reviewed every day at Take 9. All games are free of course and either browser games that can be instantly played or free games that can be downloaded and played on the local computer.

This week was strongly centered around Japanese arcade shooters and puzzle games. If you love those you find some very innovative and interesting games that are definitely fun to play.

Lets start with the Japanese arcade shooters and go from there. I want to mention two of them in this recap: Titanion which is a vertically scrolling time based shooter and Tumiki Fighters which scrolls horizontally. Both have wonderful graphics and an interesting game play. Be prepared for lots of bullets as well.

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If you play a lot of real-time strategy games then this will be very much of interest to you.

Wildfire Games are independent game developers who have been around for nearly a decade now. Their sole completed project has been a mod for Age of Empires II called “Rome at War” which successful enough to be featured on the cover discs of several PC Gaming magazines back in 2001.

This success led them to begin work on a whole new project… a real strategy game created from scratch. A dedicated team of around 40 international programmers, designers and researchers have been working fairly consistently to create what may be the first freely available real time strategy game which can be compared to commercial titles.

The project is called 0AD and will be released in two parts. Don’t expect to see it any time soon, however development is consistent and progressing. What has been achieved so far is a credit to the team and their talent considering the limited resources.

Here are some screenshots.

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Almost two months have passed since the creation of my game website Take 9. A site that I love to write for because I only review games that I like to play. The games are free as well which probably makes it an interesting website for you as well if you have a similar “game taste”. I like turn based strategy games, roleplaying games, shoot em ups and puzzles mainly but will throw in the occasional ubergame that is that good that I like to play it even if I do not play games of that type usually.

To promote my website I post a small article every Tuesday that is listing the best games that I reviewed in the week at Take 9. I also post game videos of “could-be-a-smash-hit” games on the site like the first ever video of Duke Nukem Forever gameplay or a Dawn of War II trailer.

Back to the games that I reviewed last week. Tumiki Fighters is a unique Japanese shoot em up that the developer calls Sticky Shooter because parts of defeated enemy ships stick to the player’s ship to add to its firepower and defense.

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Each Tuesday is game tuesday here at Ghacks and I list the most interesting games that I discovered throughout the week at my games blog Take9. I cover everything that I like which most likely means that it won’t attract a huge audience in the near future. So what you get is a good mixture of free game reviews and interesting or funny game videos.

You will find a high proportion of turn based strategy game, roleplaying game and Japanese shoot em up reviews over at the website. Oh yeah, and Gnome joined the team and is writing about things that he likes every now and then. The following four games can be played on the web directly if you have the flash plugin installed.

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I have created a new free games blog about a month ago - as you might know - and decided to post about the best articles of that website every Thursday here at Ghacks. If you want to check it out right now head over to Take 9 and make sure you subscribe to the RSS Feed if you like what you see. I write about games and related content that I personally like. This includes free browser games which make up about 60% of all posts plus freeware games that can be downloaded to the computer, game videos of upcoming interesting games and of course my two favorite video game reviewers Zero Punctuation and the Angry Video Game Nerd.

Gnome from The Random Gnome’s Lair joined today as an author which means that you will be able to enjoy his articles as well. I’m not sure what he will write about but it will definitely be cool and interesting. If you like to join as well let me know.

Please note that this is a free and fun project currently which means that no one will get paid (including me) because the site does not have advertisement at all. This might change in the future but for now it’s completely free.

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