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1 Castle of the Winds: A Question of Vengeance
2 Descent
3 Flight of the Amazon Queen
4 It Came from the Desert II: Antheads
5 Warzone 2100
6 Subspace - Continuum
7 One Must Fall 2097
8 The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2)
9 Wild Metal Country
10 Doom

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Pac-Man Is NP-Hard January 27 @ 1 AM


MrSeb writes "An Italian researcher with a penchant for retro games — or perhaps just looking for an excuse to play games in the name of science! — has used computational complexity theory to decide, once and for all, just how hard video games are. In a truly epic undertaking, Giovanni Viglietta of the University of Pisa has worked out the theoretical difficulty of 13 old games, including Pac-Man, Doom, Lemmings, Prince of Persia, and Boulder Dash. Pac-Man, with its traversal of space, is NP-hard. Doom, on the other hand, is PSPACE-hard."

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Fresh iPhone Apps for Jan. 12: Star Marine, Run Roo Run, Hero Academy, Zombie Wonderland 2 (Appolicious) January 12 @ 3 PM

Appolicious - The weekly iTunes App Store games dump is here, bringing lots of great new titles for the weekend. Star Marine: Infinite Ammo starts our list today, bringing side-scrolling shooter action in the vein of Contra to the iPhone and iPad. Run Roo Run, from the makers of Scribblenauts Remix, is a side-scrolling jumping game requiring some expert timing to complete. We’ve also got multiplayer strategy title Hero Academy, a turn-based game you can play against Facebook and Twitter friends, and arcade title Zombie Wonderland 2, which involves both zombies and time travel for your enjoyment.

Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion December 10 @ 12 AM


Multiple readers sent word that Bastion, an action RPG from indie developer Supergiant Games originally made for Xbox Live Arcade, has shown up in the Chrome Web Store. The purpose of the move is to showcase the browser's Native Client technology. From the article: "Ian Ellison-Taylor, Google's director of product management for the open Web platform, said that Native Client, also called NaCl, can currently improve browser performance by 1 to 10 times. 'What would it be like if we could run native code inside the browser,' he asked the crowd, and he enumerated two goals for the Native Client project. He said Google wants to bring native applications to the Web for performance and security reasons, and it wants to enrich the Web ecosystem by bringing popular, long-in-use programming languages to the Web."

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Marilyn, Elvis team up for "Retro World" game (Reuters) November 5 @ 12 AM

Reuters - Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, both long dead, get new lives in an online game aimed at the 40-and-over crowd that seeks to tap into the Hollywood legends' eternal, and lucrative, popularity.

Fresh iPhone Apps for Oct. 7: Weather Drop, Kabaam, Anomaly Warzone Earth update, Arcade Jumper (Appolicious) October 7 @ 6 PM

Appolicious - Need a weather report right now? How about one for across town, or in another state? Weather Drop can help – it’s geared to quickly give you weather reports for just about any location, even one you dictate on a map. It’s leading today’s Fresh Apps, followed by Kabaam, an app that allows you to create comic strips from your own photos. In games, a big update to Anomaly Warzone Earth, as well as a sale, makes it a must-buy at $0.99. Super Mario Bros. fans will get a kick out of the video game-referencing 2-D platforming gameplay of Arcade Jumper as well.

Fresh iPhone Apps for Sep. 29: Shazam update, Shadowgun, Pixel Ranger (Appolicious) September 29 @ 4 PM

Appolicious - Music identification app Shazam gets a big update today, allowing unlimited song tagging for its users. It heads up today’s crop of Fresh iPhone Apps, along with a couple of new games: Shadowgun, a beautiful third-person shooter in the vein of the popular Xbox 360 game Gears of War, built on the Unity engine, and Pixel Ranger, an arcade shooter with an 8-bit aesthetic.

Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs? September 11 @ 7 PM

PktLoss writes "I'm interested in building an arcade machine, following the footsteps of Cmdr Taco among many others. Not being all that interested in piracy, I need to find somewhere to buy games. StarROMs used to be the kind of thing I was looking for, though with an incredibly short catalog. The MAME people have a few available for free (non-commercial), but this isn't going to sate my needs. There's an entire cottage industry supporting this goal. People are ready to sell me plans, kits, buttons, joy sticks, glass marquees, and entire machines. That's fantastic, but where can I get the games? I refuse to believe that this entire industry is built on piracy."

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Sony Attacks Microsoft's Publishing Policies September 4 @ 12 AM

winston18 writes "Sony's vice president of publisher relations has gone on record as saying that Microsoft is protecting an inferior technology with their policies regarding content on Xbox Live Arcade and multiplatform titles. The comments stem from Microsoft's admission that they reserve the right to deny titles on Xbox Live if they launch on the PlayStation Network first."

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Decide-O-Tron App Tells You What Game To Buy ... or Else (Mashable) September 1 @ 10 AM

Mashable - Penny Arcade has launched a menacing robot — that is, a mobile app called the Decide-o-tron to help you decide on video games you might like to buy. The app is powered by Penny Arcade's customary dose of dry, gamer humor compared with complex data sets from EEDAR (Electronic Entertainment Design and Research). Users can upload their game libraries, sort by criteria such as review score and release date, and tell the app which games he or she liked or disliked. The app, much like a Pandora for video games, then suggests games the user might like to try out or look for in the future.

Peggle HD tops iPad Games of the Week (Appolicious) August 29 @ 12 AM

Appolicious - Since 2007, Peggle has been a mainstay for arcade pinball fans on the PC, Xbox 360, and the iPhone. Now it’s time for PopCap Games to dig another $3 out of your wallet for the iPad version in full, luscious HD. It’s just as good (if not better) than its predecessors. Add in a pair of 99-cent goodies in the form of a wickedly tough but satisfying number cube puzzler, and a fresh, neon-vector take on space pinball, and finally a freebie tower defense app that’s action-packed solid from stem to stern, and you’ve got our iPad Games of the Week.