A lot of love and hard work went into a remarkable feature in the current PC Gamer (UK) – 365 free games. And now you can read the entire damn thing on Games Radar.
It was a mad labour of love/hate for half the Gamer team, as well as Jim and me, taking far longer and far more people than any feature ever should. And well worth it.
GR have done a nice job, putting a decent number of screenshots up, along with direct links to every game. I feel for the person who had to copy out all the urls onto the site. Then I stop feeling for them, since the cheeky buggers not only infer they had something to do with writing it in their opening paragraph, but then add the peculiar disclaimer, “Unlike our earlier features, we can’t guarantee the quality of every game here.” How rude! Just you wait until I’m next in San Fran, you terrible men. Anyway, I can assure you there’s nary a duffer amongst them.
You’ll have seen quite a few of them on RPS before, but there’s literally hundreds we’ve never mentioned. You’ll never be short of a work distraction again.
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I thought it was nice to see the list. I’ve played quite a few of the games and seen a lot mentioned before, but there were a few new ones there that I want to check out.
It was a bit dissapointing that they’re including a few demos of non-free games, and slightly off descriptions of a few games (also, linking to sites that link to the real websites/download places instead of linking to the right place directly).
Still well worth the enromous effort of 11 clicks to go through the list. So hooray!
Okay, my comment still sounds snarky. This list is nice, and I really appriciate the work that has gone into it. It has made the world a slightly better place (even when counting the increased terrorism).
I was extremely pleased, and surprised, to see Soldat on the list. An absolutely superb bit of fun, and the only game I’ve played online and had fun with. There is nothing like the feeling you get when you, while flying through the air, hit another flying player with a perfectly-aimed M79 parabola and his bits bounce off the landscape.
Seriously, go play it already!
Also. DEATH WORM DEATH WORM DEATH WORM DEATH WORM DEATH WORM
DEATH WORM!
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!
DEATH WOOOOORRRRRMMMM!
I almost feel bad that the good work of PCG UK and US has to live at the icky GamesRadar, the site with one of the worst signal-to-noise ratios I’ve seen.
I’d actually pay a small yearly fee to get a version of that site and its forums that is “not shit,” where it just listed the “serious” articles done by the real writers.
I’ll give the list a look when I get home. I think it was in the latest PCG US as well, but this one seems to have more pictures. I just went on an indie/freeware trek and probably have half the games, but I’m sure there are a few gems that I missed!
Aww. Seeing Knytt made me smile a little. Inside /and/ outside. Must download again.
You know, at first, the bizzare negativity did get me down. But the [-Ed.] comments and the DEATH WORM! stuff and the 300-millionty free games that I now have handy links for to save the burden of typing in the snipurl codes cheered me right back up again. Hurrah for PCG and RPS.
Is this the same list that is in the PC Gamer US September 2008 #178?????? It sometimes gets really annoying with the differences between the UK and the US magazines.
[I've had it absolutely up to here. If ONE MORE POST of this nature appears on this site, we're shutting this whole thing down forever. I can't even believe you'd drag my mother into this; she's a decent, honest woman. I'm serious, nothing is sacred with you people. -Ed]
It’s largely the same list as is in the most recent US PC Gamer, yes. (I think there’s a couple more things, actually, or maybe I just missed those entries in the magazine.) That would be why it’s on Games Radar, actually, since that site is now the official PC Gamer (US) web presence or something like that.
It’s definitely the sort of thing I prefer online with clicky URLs and more space for screenshots. It’s a cool article, but typing everything in all the time would have gotten old.
I don’t know if its sad or cool that I’ve already played through a good number of these games. Haha.
Took me a couple days to get through all the games I haven’t tried before (except An Act of Murder, which will probably take longer once I get to it). I found some good stuff, like Dive and Pod Man. And all of ‘em were at least as good as what I find on my own (I’m looking at you, flash games sites). So, thanks guys.
@compuguy1088 – yup, I do believe it is.
fuck every one in here
fuck u all mother fuking gamers sucjk my dick and ass hole
hey wats the site thats all over the magazine… i read it while at the store but cant remember and i wanna goto it email me twfbeast@rocketmail.com