Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 57 Comments

There is an impressive range of excellent freeware Windows enhancements and tweaks. This posting will present forty three excellent additions to Windows that you will like.

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Tork: learn an alien language in this online action adventure flash game
December 6, 2008 – 9:17 pm | One Comment

Tork Screenshot3 Tork is a free online action/adventure flash game that employs a unique gameplay concept: deciphering a symbol-based language. Specifically, this would be the language used by the alien inhabitants of a strange planet that your spaceship just crash-landed into.

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Garden of Colored Lights: vector-based blaster with a weapons-management component
November 8, 2008 – 1:01 am | 5 Comments

Garden of Colored Lights Screenshot ScreenshotGarden of Colored Lights is a free, fast-paced vertically scrolling shoot em up. It offers excellent production qualities in the form of a quirky soundtrack and sound effects and colorful vector graphics, and employs an interesting innovation in gameplay where players can choose the weapons with-which to outfit their ship.

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The Underside: a highly playable action/adventure platformer
October 27, 2008 – 5:17 am | 5 Comments

the underside screenshotThe Underside is a free action adventure platform game. It offers a low-res retro-graphics look, an explorable world, and fast-paced story-driven gameplay interspersed with humorous and whimsical commentary.

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Hedgewars: a fun, competent Worms clone
October 6, 2008 – 4:17 pm | 9 Comments

Hedgewars screenshotHedgewars is multiplatform, a free turn-based blast-em-up in the vein of Worms. It features a wide range of weapons, multiple maps, and excellent graphics and audio. Offers single player, multiplayer, and (in theory) multiplayer over the internet modes.

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Gunroar: a fast, visually beautiful horizontal scrolling shoot em up
September 12, 2008 – 10:50 pm | 2 Comments

Gunroar ScreenshotGunroar is a frantic, free horizontally scrolling 360-degree shoot em up featuring colorful vector-style graphics. It employs an interesting gameplay innovation where the user can decide on the pace and speed of their experience as they play the game. Gunroar also offers multiple modes of play to choose from that provide very different playing experiences, including mouse, keyboard, and double-play.

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Can You Run It?: free online resource can tell you if your PC will run the games you want
September 9, 2008 – 2:41 am | 6 Comments

Can you run it screenshotCan You Run It?” from system requirements lab is a free web service that compares your PC specs against a large, constantly updated database of games and can tell you whether your computer is  sufficient to run any game that you are interested in. It can also give you a breakdown of individual components and tell you exactly where your computer stands in relation to the recommended and preferred specs and what areas or components to change or upgrade.

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Choke on my Groundhog, YOU BASTARD ROBOTS: a fun casual blaster with a twist
September 1, 2008 – 6:57 pm | 2 Comments

Choke on my groundhog screenshotA simple, casual free game that involves running around and blasting robots. It employs an interesting twist whereby whenever you die, you get to replay a level alongside the past incarnation of yourself (your previous playing sequences preserved and re-played, resulting in many of your guys simultaneously unleashing a whole lot of firepower).

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Miestas: artsy point and click flash adventure game
August 3, 2008 – 5:57 pm | 4 Comments

Miestas screenshotMiestas is a free point and click flash adventure game that features artsy, hand-drawn graphics and a jazzy soundtrack that combine together to create a dream-like game environment.

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Ben There Dan That!: a well written point and click adventure game
July 28, 2008 – 8:19 pm | 3 Comments

Ben there dan that screenshotBen there Dan That!” is free a point and click adventure game in the old LucasArts tradition that loosely explores the theme of “the death of the adventure game”. It chronicles the adventures of Ben and Dan, the digital versions of the two developers of the game, as they solve puzzles and engage in clever and amusing dialogue containing numerous humorous references to old 90’s adventure games.

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Kong: a furious top down 2D shooter
June 15, 2008 – 7:50 pm | 11 Comments

Kong ScreenshotKong is a free 2D top-down shoot em up in a full 3D environment. It can be played single player or multiplayer over LAN or the internet, and features all the usual game modes such as capture the flag, deathmatch, and team deathmatch. It offers a variety of weapons to use and objects to interact with.

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Bonesaw: travel back in time with this playable, retro platformer
June 2, 2008 – 8:00 pm | 3 Comments

bonesaw-32Bonesaw is a platform game which in terms of graphics, sound, and even the gameplay has a retro look and feel. The fast-paced action involves travelling through 30 levels of the game, solving puzzles and fighting bad guys.

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