Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About
June 23, 2009 – 8:52 am | 71 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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TrackMania Nations Forever: impossibly fun stunt-driving game
February 22, 2009 – 10:43 pm | 7 Comments

Trackmania Nations ScreenshotTrackMania Nations Forever (TMF) is a freeware racing game that distinguishes itself by way of its impossible stunt driving. It can be played both single player and online, and was designed to be widely accessible. This game runs on the Microsoft Windows platform.

[Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Travis B. Check out his freeware games blog here].

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Closure: a “philosophical” flash game about being and nothingness
February 9, 2009 – 9:32 am | 8 Comments

Closure is a free online flash platform/puzzle game with a philosophical twist. Except for a few deliberately placed light sources, the game environment is shrouded in darkness, and the only physical reality that exists in the game is that which you are able to see; all else is void.

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Dyson: colonize the universe in this “ambient” strategy game
January 22, 2009 – 10:54 pm | 4 Comments

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Dyson is a free cross-platform real time strategy game with abstract visuals. It manages to be simple and elegant even as it combines elements such as the emergence of life, a Darwinian “sperm wars” motif, and intra-species competition with your standard world-domination game concept.

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“I made this. You play this. We are enemies”: the flash game as creative expression
December 20, 2008 – 11:47 pm | No Comment

I made this screenshot3 I made this. You play this. We are enemies” is a free flash platform game where the objective is to navigate a ball across different maze-like levels. It is the sequel to a previously mentioned game called “Game, game, game and again game“. Like it’s predecessor, “I made this” is not just a game but an artistic vehicle, an exercise in creative expression that uses the gaming format as its medium.

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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 | 8 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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