Whatever you do during this Apocalypse...

Play over 300 emulated DOS games in your browser (PCGamer)

The team over at RGB Classic Games is giving us our nostalgia fixes in the form of Java-based DOS emulation. They currently host over 300 games from days of yore including Doom, Commander Keen, Earthworm Jim, and many more that didn’t get spotlighted because they were too far down the alphabetically-organized page. And it’s totally free.

It almost seems too good to be true. You might expect the hammer of legal action to be looming just above the dusty library of classics, but the site’s intentions appear noble. As it explains: “The highest ideals of this site are to support the authors by providing links to their web sites and ordering information for the full versions of games that are still sold, and to encourage the authors of classic games to preserve their games for future generations by making them available for sale or as freeware. If you enjoy a shareware game, please consider buying it from the author.

“All of the games on this site are freely distributable because they are shareware, freeware, or because the copyright holder has officially and legally released all rights to the public domain (abandonware).”

Assuming that’s the case, the site shouldn’t see any problems, but if it does offend a copyright holder, we’d expect a simple removal of the game in question to suffice. Cue up some Nirvana and have a look for yourself.

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/05/play-over-300-emulated-dos-games-in-your-browser/

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Who knows if it's gonna last, so go play while you can!

The Humble THQ Bundle! Pay what you want for seven games

The guys from the Humble Bundle are at it again, but this time with major releases; I've heard rumors that THQ is in dire straits financially, but this seems like a crazy deal.

The games are:
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Red Faction Armageddon
Metro 2033
Darksiders
Saint's Row The Third (if you beat the average price paid, which right now is $5,65)

It's pay what you want, and you can split up the money as you like between the developer, charity (Child's Play and American Red Cross) and the Humble Bundle People.

More info at http://www.humblebundle.com

Of the games I know only two Metro 2033 and Saint's Row The Third.

I enjoyed Metro 2033, even though it took me a while to get into it. I actually got into it more after reading the book (even though the plot deviates, since the book didn't have that much fighting in it). It does have a minor case of consolitis (regenerating health, checkpoint saving system only, and the controls felt a bit wonky to me) but it's a good FPS if you enjoy the post-apocalyptic setting.

Saint's Row The Third is a great game, if you like GTA-style games. It's much better optimized for PC than SR2 was. The dialogue and cutscenes seemed a bit better in SR2, but other than that I thought SR3 was superior in pretty much everything. Especially the non-story activities are much better; there are only three levels per activity (not six, like in SR2) and the difficulty level is a bit more reasonable; some activities in SR2 became ludicrously hard at higher levels. Keep in mind there is a metric ton of DLC for this game, mostly additional clothes and vehicles, but three of them also have new missions.

As for the rest I don't like hack'n slashes much (which is what Darksiders looks like) and I'm absolutely hopeless at RTS games. I actually own Company of Heroes, it came with my graphics card (which really ages my rig), but I never actually played it. The only RTS I've played is Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, because I enjoyed the wacky characters. But after some point I had to play the missions on easy because I was getting slaughtered.

If anybody has any input on the other games let me know.