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4/06/2011

Three Totally Free Video Games That Gamers Should Know About-01

Gaming these days isn't cheap, and that doesn't just include the hardware it takes to play awesome looking games. At retail stores many new games today can cost as much as $60, unfortunately for developers many gamers just can't justify the pricey investment and resort to acquiring games illegally. Luckily for everyone, we've got a list of three games that you can play for free which don't involve any illegal internet pirating.

1. The Hunter (Avalanche Studios) - The Hunter is probably far and away the best hunting video game ever made, and yet it's completely free to download and play on the computer. The Hunter is a hyper-realistic game that may turn many casual gamers off with its slow pace and attention to detail, but for hunting fans the game is a dream come true.

Without the right strategy, you could go hours without finding a single thing to shoot at, and there's a lot of attention that needs to be paid about your scent, what direction the wind is pushing it and of course the noise that you make. Although The Hunter does have a paid subscription plan that allows players to hunt more animals with more weapons and across more areas, it is absolutely free to hunt your standard Mule Deer, which is a preferred target even with a subscription because of the beautiful racks you can collect from the bucks.

2. League of Legends (Riot Games) - League of Legends is a free online computer game that was made in part by some of the original creators of the mega-popular Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III. Players compete in teams up to five to conquer the base of their opponent, with a great deal of strategy and team play to be found along the way. The game features over 60 different playable characters that can be unlocked over time by simply playing more games and spending the points you earn to get them, however characters can also be acquired more quickly by purchasing them with real cash.

3. Alien Swarm (Valve) - Alien Swarm is an intriguing co-op game developed by Valve and distributed for free on their Steam platform. Squads of up to four players are tasked with the job of clearing out and fighting through maps infested with aliens, and includes many different items that can be unlocked along the way to make the process all the more fun. This is a great free game to play with your friends, or challenge yourself with at higher difficulties.

3/25/2011

Nintendo 3ds review: It is totally in your face

 


What is about 3-d, so attractive?


A while back I saw two landmark 3D movies in the same six month period: avatar and the revival of Captain EO at Disneyland. Been the latter a 1986 Michael Jackson flick, used 3D in style and ham-handed ridiculous way it always used: asteroid flew into the seats. Evil Monster came their claws and Spears in the face. Cue shrieks and laughter from the audience.


For a film so closely with the current 3-d boom identified James Cameron's avatar never tried any of these tricks. I quickly forgot I was just a "3 d film." The depth, that extra sensation is things removed, more had subtle effect of making all of seem real to the touch. The 3-d technology was the medium, not the message.


The Nintendo 3ds is at its best when it doesnt avatar, Captain EO. Games that make players go through the innovative glasses free 3-d gaga display are good and beautiful. But it is the way, making the small screen 3D effects to any 3ds game look a little animated diorama in a shoebox, which impressed me the most. Something about the third dimension brings games to life.


 


The $250 3ds, already available in Japan and coming stateside March 27, is a device with the weight of the world on your Sockets. Nintendo has uninterrupted dominance enjoyed in the handheld gaming space, as it practically, that space with game boy, created in 1989. This is now under the onslaught of Apple's suite to touch phones and tablets, which play an increasingly pleasant library of games for significantly lower prices.


Nintendo's proposal is staunchly conservative and wild once again typical Nintendo - innovative alike. On the one hand, it stresses $40 retail games about cheap downloads, and the company says it will not try indie "garage game" to attract developers. On the other hand, it has positive skipped the competition through the use of a glasses free 3-d display, in the same way that the original Nintendo DS led the way with its touch interface.


Like other writers on already elaborated who 3-d screen much better right is of the "volume" slider. You can the 3-d top square on your eyeballs to crank, quite, if you want to enjoy the full range of depth of field effects, but to view them, you keep fairly close the 3ds at your face, must.


This is the taxation not nearly so as it sounds - I played it at last with the machine only the position and never feel tired. But if you want you can use the 3-d, victims below the full force of his power for a more relaxed viewing angle crank.


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