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Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008

Anton Piatek — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:00:03 +0000

Even with the terrible DRM shipped with Spore – 1.7 million pirated downloads in 3 months is one hell of a figure…

Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008 | TorrentFreak
As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end, we start taking a look at the most pirated titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the game.

I wonder when software publishers are going to try selling big title games without DRM to see how that compares?

Only 10 days after the game’s launch date, already half a million people had downloaded the game.

Physics Games

Anton Piatek — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:03:52 +0000

I have been wanting to write about this for a while (well, since Roo first wrote his post) but wasnt sure whether to just point to Roo’s post, or whether to repeat the contents of it here. I have decided that posting the 4 videos would feel too much like plagarism, so check out Roo’s post: rooreynolds.com: Physics Games

It is a collection of Physics based computer games – “Boring” you may think, but in fact they are quite cool (very cool in fact). Don’t think about out, click the link above and watch the videos. I have downloaded Phun, and it is indeed a lot of fun. The thing in common with all the games is that they all have somewhat realistic physics engines (in fact that is the main part of all the games).

Linux Gaming

Anton Piatek — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:48:08 +0000

It seems like linux gaming is finally becoming a reality. So far most games seem to be simple ones (not that that makes them bad – the linux card games are far superior than any windows ones I have seen) or multiplayer based (few have good AI’s).

Linux Gamers have a review of Open Source 3D Shoot-em-ups

http://www.linux-gamers.net/smartsection.item.81/comparison-of-free-software-shooters.html

While Linux Journal has a more general review of Free Games for Linux

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000435

I really need to get my 3d card running properly again, as some of those mutliplayer shoot-em-ups look rather good, and I definitely need to try out that racing game!