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ULTIMATE PENGUIN FIGHTING!

By John Walker on September 13th, 2007.

The unheard perils of global warming

…the penguins were hardest hit by global warming and pollution. The ice had melted, the fish were gone.

Then, at the darkest hour, the ancient Penguin Goddess Sedna appeared before the starving masses. Gathering the survivors around her, she uttered these fateful words:

“My penguin children, here me well. Starvation and chaos are upon you. There is room for but one tribe. The others must perish less ye all perish. That is the price of survival.”

The Penguns stood in stunned silence. Only one tribe could remain, but which one? How would they decide? As darkness descended, the answer became apparent…

That’s right – PENGUIN DEATHMATCH.

Penguins Arena (for the sake of grammar, let’s assume this is pronounced, “Penguins: Arena”) is the mad conclusion of this worrying tale. From French indie developers, Frogames, it’s an extremely cute and daft deathmatch game born of the confused relationship between Quake 3 and that punching with boxing gloves on springs minigame in Monkey Ball.

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If I Blog About It, Then The Time Wasn’t Wasted

By Jim Rossignol on August 8th, 2007.

Or was it? I just spent… too long playing The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins. It’s a side-scrolling shooter where penguins are the main characters. The tragic hero-protagonist is a penguin with guns. It’s complete garbage, and yet oddly compulsive. And it’s a free download.

Mmm.

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