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Spread the news and get your orders, S&M Season One will be available for the Wii on October 7th. Finally something worth buying again on the Wii! Support the little guys at Telltale Games and show them and the industry that this is what we want, good funny and fun games. I hope this does well and we get Season Two for it also or better yet be able to download the episodes on the Wii, imagine that…using the Wii to it’s potentual :p
I ran across this and wanted to share the good news with whomever. This weekend starting 8/29 until Sunday 8/31 Savage2 will be on sale for $9.99 from S2 Games. I played the first one for a very long time and have been wanting to pick this one up and it looks like tomorrow is the perfect time to do just that! Savage is a hybrid Real-Time Strategy and First Person Shooter. If you like online action this is a great and very fun game! See you on Newerth this weekend!
And it’s got a native Linux client also 
Here’s a List of (what I think) are the best Tower Defense games I’ve found scouring the internet.
By far my favorite is DesktopTD where it takes place on a typical office desk and has a lot of different game types to keep it fresh. Also it has a very well done score board where you can track your own personal scores or even make a group for you and your friend to judge separately from the rest of the world
Another favorite is VR Defender Y3K where you are defending your computer server from attacks. Tron-like graphics make it very fun but it doesn’t have much more then that and only has a few different map options for levels of difficulty.
The first one of these type of games I found was on Wrigley’s Candystand called Flash Circle TD which also doesn’t offer any variations leaving to stale after a while but is still very fun.
Noxins Defender is a sort of tower defense game with an Ultima Online theme, personally this really bored me and wasn’t any fun for me…you’re mileage may very.
Onslaught is one that seems easy at first but because it’s very slow to start there isn’t much challenge until you’re close to level 100. You can build a quick setup, walk away for awhile and you’ll still be alive when you get back. Building up the combos is fun and is where the real challenge it.
I haven’t had a chance to try this one yet, but WarCraft: Tower Defense for the Nintendo DS looks promising. From what I’ve read the base idea for all these tower games came from WarCraft III, but I’ve had no desire to play that or any other Blizzard game since StarCraft succeeded in boring the socks off of me. Looking at the compatibility list it does support the GBA Movie Player that I have, but the “DLDI patching” makes me a little nervous…something I should look into though as the NDS homebrew scene looks pretty good in general.
If anyone else knows of a good Tower Defense game (I mean good, there’s a lot of crappy ones out there too) please post it!
-EDIT 6/8-
Here’s another that just came around, Xeno Tactic. It’s pretty much a clone of DesktopTD with an alien theme and a lot more colors. When there’s a lot going on it gets really slow on older machines (most likely from the heavy use of animations on every creep). To get the more difficult maps you need to progress through the series of levels and the final is the 100 wave challenge map. DesktopTD is still my favorite due to the unique score keeping options.
-Edit 6/10-
I meant to add this one originally but wasn’t sure if it really fit. AntBuster is a defend your picnic cake from the ants with your turrets…turrets at a picnic? Fun doesn’t have to make sense! Every turret built increases in cost so you get limited to how many you can build quickly. Good placement and smart upgrades is how to play this one since they all start off as regular bullet turrets, how you upgrade them changes them. Lots of fun, this is a good one!
I have made a lot of changes to the install script for the Neverwinter Nights Platinum Editon installation script I’ve been working on. Hopefully it’s a little easier to now to install just the way you want with little or no extra configeration work.
Changes:
This has been tested on xUbuntu with the CD version, if someone finds and errors in the install or quirks with another distro let me know so I can fix it up
The Neverwinter Nights Platinum editon includes both expansions and a few additional modules. The game is available on 4 CDs or 1 DVD.
Normally the install to this is not too difficult as outlined on their forums.
One user (MGalpin) posted a simple script that would install the game from the CDs, it is a good script and worked okfor me.
I have modified this script so the person installing doesn’t need to manually edit anything in the script and only needs to answer the questions given at the begining of the install. It will also make checks to verify that unsheild is installed which is needed to uncompress the data files from the disks.
DVD support is now in the script, it will need an additional package for the linux files, it’s a 5.2M download and the script will ask if you want to fetch it.
The install script install-nwn.sh
Added support for the 1.66 patch
Please report any problems with the script, feature requests or if I missed something icarus.lnx@gmail.com
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