Continue reading »]]> Ten of the best browser arcade games released this year, right here. We’ve got everything from running a 100-metre sprint event, hitting balls out of the park, racing dinosaurs, gigantic swords and even a time-management game in this edition.

1. Cursor*10
2. QWOP
3. Top Spinner
4. Dino Run
5. Ginormo Sword
6. Minotaur China Shop
7. Gravity Hook
8. Rose and Camellia (Shockwave version)
9. Maverick
10. Robokill

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Continue reading »]]> Best Freeware Arcade Games 2008

Whether you fancy rescuing the princess, assassinating the president or saving the world, we’ve got everyone’s wishes covered. We humbly present to you IndieGames.com’s special feature on some of the best action and arcade games released in the past twelve months.

1. 8bit killer
2. Rescue: The Beagles
3. Aether
4. Calamity Annie
5. Destructivator
6. Thrustburst
7. You Found the Grappling Hook
8. You Have to Burn the Rope
9. ROM Check Fail
10. Samurai Railroad Mansion
11. Virtual Silence
12. Cubes
13. Facewound
14. Pro Killer Man
15. Skullpogo
16. Night of the Cephalopods
17. Karateka Mania
18. Devil Ronin
19. Ropor
20. I Was in the War

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Continue reading »]]> From upgraded remakes with painstakingly redrawn and recolored graphics, to the most retro of demakes with blocky pixel art and noisy chiptunes, IndieGames.com has rounded up ten remakes of classic games that you should not miss the second time around.

1. Soundless Mountain II
2. Voxelstein 3D
3. 3D Starstrike
4. Left 4k Dead
5. Guru Logic Champs
6. Rock Boshers
7. Ultimate Bruce Lee
8. Kung Fu 2
9. The Eggyard
10. Scramble

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Continue reading »]]> We’ve compiled a list of twenty adventure games to proof that the genre is still very much alive, with picks such as a western-themed IF, an educational game for both adults and children, a chatroom simulator, a couple of sequels, and even a remake of a past Sierra classic in full VGA glory to satiate anyone’s desire for more questing.

Mac and Linux versions of the AGS engine are available.

1. Dirty Split
2. Life of D. Duck II
3. The Vacuum
4. Fedora Spade Episode 4: The Last Job
5. Yume Nikki
6. Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
7. Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars
8. Gun Mute
9. NES Quest
10. Nanobots
11. Sydney Treads the Catwalk
12. Ben Jordan Case 7: The Cardinal Sins
13. Limey Lizard: Waste Wizard
14. Beauties and Beasts
15. Chatroom
16. Questionaut
17. Everybody Dies
18. DayMare Town 2
19. Pragaras
20. The Maze of Madness

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Continue reading »]]> High praise: 2008 was the best year for video games, ever.

As such, when game reviewers name their favorite games of 2008, they will make good cases — probably for the epics, “Grand Theft Auto IV,” “LittleBigPlanet,” “Rock Band 2” and “Fallout 3.”

But everything is personal. So here are my Top 10 games of 2008, based on: how much they made my heart race and how many hours I played them.

•“God of War: Chains of Olympus” by Sony for PSP. This is the best PSP game yet created. You play once more as Kratos, the killing muscle of mythical gods. Its cinematic sweep is breathtaking; screenshots could hang in galleries; the orchestral score hums. It’s a flawless masterpiece.

•“Frontlines: Fuel of War” by THQ for Xbox 360. Offline, “Fuel” is a short, war-for-oil, shooting adventure. Online, this was the best shooter of 2008, featuring some of the most fun battlefields, rocket launchers, tanks and helicopters you’ll ever see.

•“Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” by Konami for PS3. Legendary co-writer-director Hideo Kojima directed this very long work of art in an action-adventure (spanning the globe with guns).

•“Patapon” by Sony for PSP. You make stick-figure warriors march and toss spears by touching PSP buttons as if they are drum pads. It is unforgettable, clever and endearing.

•“Call of Duty: World at War” by Activision for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, DS. Offline, it’s more World War II battlefields, trenches and killing. You can also unlock a bonus “Nazi Zombie” mini-game (hilarious).

•“Mirror’s Edge” by E.A. for Xbox 360 and PS3. You play as a “runner” in an anti-utopian futuristic city (drawn with primary colors in street art style), jumping from roof to roof in human ways, and “wall-climbing” Jackie Chan-style. It ends too soon, though.

•“Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution” by 2K Games for Xbox 360, PS3 and DS. You play this engrossing “Risk”-style strategy role-player by leading your nation to empirical victory, starting from the Stone Age and ending with the Space Age.

•“The Club” by Sega for PS3 and Xbox 360. This was a stellar online shooter, though after just 10 months on the market, I find only a handful of gamers still shooting each other online via PS3.

•“MotorStorm: Pacific Rift” by Sony for PS3. Drive motorcycles, trucks and four-wheelers across incredibly vast and gorgeously illustrated open spaces in the great outdoors, offline and online.

•“WALL-E” by THQ for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PSP and DS. This movie-based game is a solid journey where you portray Earth’s last garbage-cleaning robot who goes to space in search of love and companionship. Other games were better in traditional ways. But the profound heart of “WALL-E” almost made me cry every half-hour. That is the first time a game has ever made me emotional.

The top 10 video games of 2008 – Kansas City Star

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Continue reading »]]> Halo 3 was the most played games on Xbox Live for the week beginning November 24, beating both Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War to number one.

Here’s the top ten.

1. Halo 3
2. Gears of War 2
3. CoD: World at War
4. Call of Duty 4
5. GTA IV
6. Fable II
7. Left 4 Dead
8. Madden NFL 09
9. Fallout 3
10. FIFA 09

Continue reading »]]> Gamasutra’s comprehensive new U.S. sales analysis following October NPD results, we’ve extrapolated the top 5 selling video games of 2008 so far in the region, from Smash Bros through GTA IV.

YLD Top 5 Games of 2008

1. Wii
2. Mario Cart
3. Grand Theft Auto 4
4. Wii Play
5. Wii Fit

YLD Top Earners

1. Wii Fit
2. Grand Theft Auto 4
3. Super Smash Bros Brawl Wii
4. Mario Cart
5. Wii Play

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