http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNpVrrELDM 

Looks neat. Are we running a pool on how long it takes until it gets shut down? :) 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/916-Wolfenstein 

Some of his other reviews were a lot more cutting, but that is total fucking genius, a work of reviewing art. Very very good :D 

one of the only websites I check every week without fail. The DNF anti-review is one of the best things of all the things. 

But that one was something extra special. 

Found this for a tenner with free delivery on Play.com and after being totally sucked into the demo there was no choice!

its fantastic fun, simple to pick up and play but deep enough to hold your interest, plus the amount of user mods for it is insane (not that I've tried any of them yet).

if you have never heard of the thing before, its basicly a sandbox medieval conquest game. You start out with a horse and a sword and can basicly do whatever you want after that, you can loot and pillage villages, form your own private army or go work for any of the kingdoms in the game.

The mechanics are similar in a way to the Might & Magic games, you have the standard "god" view, looking down onto the landscape, where you can trek your avatar anywhere you want, visit a few towns/castles etc and find a mission or two, at the same time the enemy kingdoms avatars are doing exactly the same thing. There are also wandering bands of mercenaries, looters, deserters that make for nice experience for new players.

The best part of it all is when you go into a fight, and you take direct control of your avatar and fight the enemy, with your entire army next to you. its just epic, and fantastic fun.

Somehow it all runs at 60+ fps even on my oldish rig, though it certainly isn't a looker the graphics are definitely good enough. Even fights with 50+ units on each side run at 60fps!

The demo is on steam, go check it out! 

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/510390

ride your bicycle through a giant sheet of paper filled with diagrams. Gets harder the farther you go. (there is an end, evetually.) 

Anyone know where it can be downloaded? 

You mean legally or illegally?

Legally I'm not sure, but I'd check steam, they have loads of Lucas Arts shiz nao (not on my own machine atm so can't login and check if this is the case), failing that try amazon or ebay.

Illegally I would be hesitant to link to any warez sites, let alone directly to a download link, but I'm sure if you're looking for a place to acquire backups of software you've lost the discs for then this article would probably be a good place to start; http://torrentfreak.com/25-great-pirate-bay-alternatives-090822/ (RIJ nazi funded, profiteering, arrogant arse wipes (Raped In Jail in case you were wondering)) 

Anyone tried one of them? Are they any good?
Like http://www.l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=33 or http://l4dmaps.com/details.php?file=70
Where is the #tf campaign? 

pretty sure I already asked this and then forgot, but does anyone know where I could download or order a real copy of grim fandango? 

 

"unreal deal" for 16eur on steam: Unreal Gold, UT99: GOTY, UT2004, UT3 

Unreal2 too but noone gives a shit about that one 

Actually I didn't give a shit about any of them but I bought it anyway. 

You can get Tales of Monkey Island for "free" (e-mail address) today: http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate 

I'm pretty sure Grim Fandango isn't on steam...
whatever, I'll figure it out. 

a flash platformer with a cool art style, and some quality learn-by-dying gameplay:

http://www.dampgnat.com/icycle

(it is finishable, i finished it) 

I've been wasting time with this:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754 

Getting a 403? 

seems to be getting slashdotted/metafiltered/something last few days. I couldn't get in on two days ago, but yesterday it worked. Might have to come back later. 

I didn't big that link up enough:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754

It's a shift style game but much better with a decent story, artwork and sound. Gameplay is the fairly standard puzzle / platformer, but hits the spot for the frustration to I'll just finish this level balence.

The user made levels are surprisingly good as well. 

have there been any good action rpg games lately? something played from third person and not a diablo click-fest? sp, ofc. 

Fallout3 maybe?

Risen is coming out next week (that's from the guys who made the Gothic games), wonder how that will turn out.