Games

The games industy is vast, spreading over PC, browser, and mobile platforms with various ways to download or play them. This section covers news from the top gaming developers and publishers, as well as some tips on how to install and configure them.

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Moonshades Legend of Grimrock like browser game [Game Saturday]

When I had my Amiga computer as a child I loved playing dungeon crawlers. It all started with Dungeon Master, an excellent game that I spend many hours playing. Probably my favorite […]

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Buy Games using Steam's mobile application

If you are a Steam user you know that Valve is having regular sales on the platform where games are offered for a discount. That's often a great way of buying games […]

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DoTonPachi Maximum arcade shooter [Game Saturday]

I started to love the arcade shooter genre back when River Raid for the Atari 2600 was released. This grew over time with games like R-Type, Blood Money or Xenon-2 into this […]

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Play SNES Games online with friends

Back in the days when Nintendo and Sega ruled the console gaming world, I used to play all kinds of SNES games with friends. I remember well how we played games like […]

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You can now sell virtual items on Steam

The next big thing, after using DLC contents to make lots of extra money, are in-game transactions of virtual goods for real money. Blizzard enabled the money auction house in Diablo 3 […]

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Steam: alternative installation locations now available

One of the main complaints that many gamers have in regards to Valve Software's popular Steam gaming platform is the limitation to one installation directory and partition. While you can use some […]

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Angry Birds Star Wars is out

Rovio, the company behind the popular Angry Birds franchise of games, has released Angry Birds Star Wards today for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, PC and Macintosh systems. Not all versions seem to […]

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Hordes and Lords [Game Saturday]

There are not that many Flash real time strategy games out there, at least not games that put hundreds of units against each other in epic battles. Hordes and Lords is a […]

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Radiant Defense [Game Saturday]

Radiant Defense is the first Windows 8 Windows Store game that I'm reviewing for Game Saturday. It is a free to play game that restricts some of the available items to gamers […]

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Telepaint action puzzle game [Game Saturday]

If the prospect of running through portals excites you, Telepaint may be just the game that you would like to take for a ride on this rainy Saturday. It is not a […]

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The Football Playbook [Game Saturday]

Football, or soccer as US Americans call it, is the most popular sport in the world. The Football Playbook is a game about football, or more precisely about getting the ball into […]

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Boss Rush [Game Saturday]

You can best describe Boss Rush as a reverse shoot em up game. Instead of having to fly through levels and beat boss enemies at the end, you take the role of […]

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Takeover [Game Saturday]

Takeover is a free strategic Flash game in which you take control of a tribe out of three that the game makes available to you. The game plays on small regional maps […]

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Classic shoot em up game Hydorah [Game Saturday]

The majority of computer games has become a lot easier in recent years. While there are still some games that give you a run for your money, Dark Souls comes to mind, […]

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Revolgear 2 [Game Saturday]

Revolgear 2 is a traditional shoot em up game that reminds me a lot of Konami's Thunder Cross series sans the two player mode.  The game is fully portable and can be […]

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Activision Launches Classic Games App for Mobile

Classic games have been making a comeback lately with Microsoft recently partnering with Atari to bring arcade games to Internet Explorer.  Now, today, another name from the past, Activision, announced a new […]

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What is Steam Greenlight?

If you have opened the Steam store in the application or on the website recently you may have noticed the Steam Greenlight ad at the top of the main store page. When […]

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Nuclear Plant [Game Saturday]

Nuclear Plant puts the player in the role of a survivor of a nuclear war that had 99% of the world's population as causalities. What's even more pressing is that the radiation […]

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Play classic Atari arcade games in your browser

Ah Atari, what a big name they were back in the beginning days of computer gaming. I had my first experience at home with the Atari 2600 system and classics like River […]

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How to play Windows games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, FreeCell on Windows 8

Games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, FreeCell or Hearts have been included in most versions of the operating system by default. They have a large fan base not only at home but also at […]

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Slender [Game Saturday]

A few weeks ago I reviewed the game Hide here on Ghacks. It put you in the role of feeling person in a winter landscape. It was dark, there were trees all […]

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Decision 2 [Game Saturday]

Decision 2 is a strategic action game. Your main task in the game is to recapture a city that has been taken over by zombies. The city itself is divided into sectors […]

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Delver [Game Saturday]

I have to admit that I never played Minecraft, even though I always wanted to. But since it is such an important and popular game, I know what it looks like and […]

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Blizzard's Battle.net hacked, change your passwords now

Blizzard, developer of such popular brands of gaming such as World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, is one of the most popular PC game companies. The company's World of Warcraft MMORPG for […]

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PCSX2 1.0 Playstation 2 emulator. Play PS2 games on your PC

The Playstation 2 was the dominant system of its time, and even though my beloved Sega Dreamcast was ahead of its time in many regards, it was the Playstation's general appeal and […]

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Tequila Zombies 2 [Game Saturday]

Today I'm bringing you a review of Tequila Zombies 2, a straightforward well designed side scrolling action game that puts you in the role of Miguel or Jaqueline to fight the zombie […]

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The Spirit Engine 2 [Game Saturday]

The Spirit Engine 2 is a side-scrolling role playing game for the PC that has been around since 2008.  Back then it received lots of praise from the community, and I have […]

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Steam account limited? Find out why and how to gain access to all Steam features

Steam is probably the most popular gaming platform on the PC right now offering not only a game store and means to launch games from a single client but also community elements […]

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Ninja Senki: 8-bit inspired jump and run [Game Saturday]

Generally speaking, games in the beginning days were a lot harder than they are now. While there are some exceptions to the rule like Dark Souls, the majority of modern computer games […]

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Civilization Wars [Game Saturday]

Civilization Wars is a fast paced real time strategy game in which you try to become the dominating tribe in battles for land. To become that, you need to conquer every tower […]

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Enigmata Stellar War [Game Saturday]

Tower defense meets space action. Enigmata Stellar War is a brand new Flash game that has been making the rounds lately. In it you control the defenses of a space station to […]

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Hide [Game Saturday]

You are on the run. You do not know why or how you got into the situation, only that you need to get as far away as possible. They send people after […]

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Grading Game [Game Saturday]

Who would have thought that grading papers can be that much fun. I suppose this is no game for teachers or students who grade papers on a regular basis. Everyone else though […]

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Sequester [Game Saturday]

Sequester is a jump and run game with a twist. In standard jump and runs, you usually move your characters from the left to the right, sometimes going up or down, but […]

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Relic of War [Game Saturday]

Relic of War is a strategy game set in an alternate World War 2 timeline. Players can chose to play the Allies or Axis, and the choice defines both the starting position […]

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Strike Force Heroes [Game Saturday]

Strike Force Heroes at its core is a team deathmatch game that you play against AI controlled opponents. It has a few similarities to games like Unreal Tournament or Quake 3, despite […]

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Monsters' Den Chronicles [Game Saturday]

I have been playing Diablo 3 since it came out, and while it is a good game, it is not a game that impressed me like the original two parts of the […]

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Crysis Wreckage Standalone [Game Saturday]

I usually do not review FPS games in this series, not because I do not like that genre, heck I have 960 hours of Team Fortress game play time in Steam, but […]

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Tiggit, an Open Source Game Launcher and Installer

We have grown fond here of the excellent Game Downloader and the pleasures it has brought us in the form of free to play games for the Windows operating system. Tiggit is […]

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Gemcraft Labyrinth [Game Saturday]

I remember the original Gemcraft Flash game, and that I have played it a lot back in the days when it first came out. Gemcraft Labyrinth has been out for a long […]


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