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Zomb-arena: Nation Red Demo

By Jim Rossignol on August 2nd, 2009.


Today is a good day. The sun is shining, the coffee is hot, and the internet coughs up a zombie game demo. In this particular instance of zombification it’s a kind of top-down, round-based Left 4 Dead or perhaps more like the splendid Larva Mortus. The zombies come a-charging, and you have to keep on collecting the power-ups to get through the level. The name of the game is Nation Red, by KaosKontrol and DiezelPower, and it will apparently be on full release next week on Direct2Drive and GamersGate. Enough wibbling: get it here, and splatter some undead.

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Front Roads: Kharkov 1943 Demochka

By Tim Stone on August 2nd, 2009.

The makers of my favourite simulation of 2008 may, fingers-crossed, be about to unleash my favourite wargame of 2009. The demo of ЛИНИЯ ФРОНТА: БИТВА ЗА ХАРЬКОВ is disappointingly nocturnal and only available in Russian right now, but I reckon there’s enough Close Combat-calibre tactical action and Combat Mission: Campaigns-style meta-game discernible, to warrant incautious optimism. Read the rest of this entry »

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The RPS Bargain Bucket: Mostly Only War

By RPS on August 1st, 2009.

Is there anything quite so fine in this life as a cheap videogame? Well, obviously: toffee apples are even better. Apart from that, nothing. So, do enjoy the following bargains, as collated by Savygamer‘s LewieP.
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