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With its stunning, hand-painted scenery and animation, lovable characters and Studio Ghibli feel, you’d be forgiven for thinking that The Whispered World was a children’s animated film, bringing back memories of watching Disney classics with your Grandma and crying at The Lion King (That wasn’t just me, right?).
A homage to classics in the point-and-click adventure genre, The Whispered World has the potential to become a classic in its own right. A modern fantasy set in a nostalgic world, the game follows the adventures of Sadwick — melancholy clown — and his pet caterpillar Spot, who turns out to be infinitely more useful than your average everyday bug.
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Welcome one and all to another CFD! bi-weekly feature! This here is our new bi-weekly report on free games. Not just free games, but free games that are exceptionally awesome and you need to play. Basically, they’re Free Games What Need Playing.
Some may be browser-based and others might require a download, but they’re all free and very much worth your time. They won’t all be brand-spanking new, but just because they’ve been floating around the internet for a while doesn’t mean everyone has heard of them before, right? So with that in mind, I present to you this week’s Games What Need Playing.
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In the interest of full disclosure: I fucking loved Dragon Age: Origins. It was my game of the year of 2009 and it made my wife into a gamer, so it will always hold a soft spot in my heart. I would have that game’s baby and never ask for child support.
Aside from the nearly criminal visuals, only one thing bothered me about the game: Where did Morrigan go? Without spoiling anything from Origins, let’s just say that everyone’s favorite swamp witch left with something that belonged to the Grey Warden, and the recent Dragon Age II article in Game Informer hinted that I’d have to wait for the sequel next March to get the nail-biting conclusion.
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Students at Wabash College this spring will be putting down their textbooks and picking up a controller, according to one teacher.
Michael Abbot, a professor at Wabash and editor of gaming community site The Brainy Gamer, has revealed that “alongside Gilgamesh, Aristotle’s Politics, John Donne’s poetry, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, freshmen at Wabash will also encounter a video game called Portal.” The game will be played in a new course called “Enduring Questions,” a class “devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives.”
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Those who pay attention to our marvelously irregular podcast will know that I’m a one-trick pony when it comes to RTS games on PC. I played Age of Empires II nonstop for nearly ten years, so when Microsoft Game Studios announced that Age of Empires Online was in the works at Robot Entertainment (the successor to series creators Ensemble Studios), I danced for joy.
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Despite being published by Activision, Singularity was released with more of a whisper than a bang just over a month ago — but that doesn’t mean that this game isn’t worth shouting about. Singularity is a sci-fi, first person shooter experience, where you destroy mutants in increasingly creative ways and solve environment puzzles with the aid of your shiny gadget/weapon, the Time Manipulation Device (“TMD”), whilst jumping between eras in time.
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UPDATE: Amanita Design has just extended the cutoff date for the sale to August 16th. So just in case you “forgot” to buy it before, now you have a few more days to fix that problem.
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They’ve been around ever since the Dawn of Man. Thieves, Crooks, Robbers, Brigands, Cattle Rustlers, Pirates, etc… Ever since people have existed, there’s always been those who would prefer to simply take rather than earn.
F*cking scumbags, the lot of them.
It’s no surprise that Amanita Design’s phenomenal (and peerless) adventure game, Machinarium, has been pirated. Despite the fact that a hard copy is only $20 and includes the game, soundtrack and a special bonus EP, and the other fact that it’s made by a small group of people (an independent developer, if you will) as opposed to a massive, soulless corporation, people still stole it. Rather than get mad (although I’m sure they did anyway), Amanita Design is actually giving these human brown-eyes a chance to make amends in the form of a special 75% Off sale.
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UPDATE: First off, sorry for the delay, but PAX planning has left us running a bit ragged. However, winners HAVE been selected, so without further ado…
- AkmGamer
- TheBigScarySeaBug
- Syniz
- wilop123142
Look for a friend request from ShadowPraxis on Steam and then shoot me a message the next time you’re on and I’ll hand the code over to you.
Congrats to all and thanks to everybody for entering! Please spread the word so we can continue to do stuff like this for you guys!
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So by now you’ve no doubt read our review of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West and are asking yourself “How can I acquire this game for myself without starting up a posse and pulling a daring train heist?”
Well fear not, friend! CFD! is here to keep you from having to resort to such larceny. Keeping our Wild West Week rolling, we’re offering up some copies of the game on Steam, via our friends at Fatshark and Paradox Interactive, to all of you – no outlaw antics required!
How can you enter? Hit the jump to find out, pardner.
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Unlike a certain other Western-themed game, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West makes no attempts at being overly serious or realistic. To put it in simpler terms: Lead and Gold is basically to Red Dead Redemption what Team Fortress 2 is to Half-Life 2, in the sense that they’re each marginally related to a bigger game but choose a more lighthearted approach. In fact, Lead and Gold and TF2 have quite a few similar qualities. Both are multiplayer-only shooters, class-based, and make a point of being cartoony and unrealistic. With so much in common, it’s easy to go in to Lead and Gold with a more open disposition, and for the most part, this game delivers the things you’d want and expect from such a shooter.
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An epic tale has ended. The vile Archdemon has been defeated. The Blight is over. Ferelden has been saved. One would think now would be the time to kick back with a wench, a frosty mug of ale and just relax, right? Oh, silly Grey Warden – a hero’s job is never done! But is Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening worth strapping on the chainmail and taking up the longsword again? That all depends; what’s your tolerance for floating teeth and phantom models?
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Taking quite a different direction from the previous editions of the franchise, The Sims are about to take a journey back in time.
First hinted in the days leading up to E3 2010, The Sims Medieval won’t just be another $30 expansion pack; it will be a new series. +Continue Reading
People like that StarCraft, eh?
Thanks to its highly anticipated launch after nearly 12 years of waiting, fans responded to the sci-fi sequel in a big way, accounting for 1.5 million sales in the first two days of availability.
It’s already the highest-selling PC game of this year and the fastest-selling strategy game “of all time.” And that’s only one-third of the whole game!
But is it any good? We’ll find out when CFD!’s John DeLuca emerges from the bowels of his computer chair and reviews the game. Stay tuned, dear readers.
In a move that should really surprise no one, the PC version of Fable III has been delayed to an undetermined later date.
A Microsoft rep told IGN that while the 360 edition of the game is on track for its October 26 release date, the two versions “are now on different schedules as we’re focusing on building experiences optimized for each platform.”
Given the fact that Fable II never saw the light of day on PC, I wouldn’t mind seeing a quick port show up a few months before the sequel comes out so PC gamers are caught up. Hopefully this gives Microsoft a bit of headroom in that department.
Please? …Plllleeease?
[Via: IGN]
(Meet Dustin Stevens – Novice PC gamer and MMO virgin. Dustin decided to sacrifice a week’s vacation from work to dive headlong into the world’s biggest time sink and we’re going along with him. Join us for today’s chapter of Dustin Stevens vs. The World… of Warcraft.)
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Beard Status: Inexcusable
Personal Smell: Like Death
Character: Kniveschau (Level 14 Blood Elf Hunter)
I spent the first part of my penultimate day completing simple quests and flying back and forth between the two halves of the Blood Elf starting Zone. For some reason, the class and profession trainers were all in or around Silvermoon City, so I had to keep returning from Eversong Woods to keep up my hunter, skinning, and leatherworking skills. I was learning new combat abilities quickly but the leatherworking advanced a bit slower than I would have liked (I’m not too impressed that I can finally make “embossed leather gloves” if I already found some on a mistbat’s corpse). At least I got to watch this pretty flying animation a lot; it gave me time to refill my glass. I was also slowly filling in the map for Eversong Woods, finding little villages and caves all over the place.
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So you log into Steam to get some headshots in in Modern Warfare 2, only to find yourself with a good news/bad news/good news situation. The good news? Valve is cracking down on cheaters by banning their Steam accounts. The bad news? Your account is one of them and you never cheated. The good news? You and a friend get a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2 for your trouble.
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