Angled Whiteboards

Happy Fourth of July, folks!  Make sure you light some fireworks and go Off-Road Redneck Racing! (Pro tip: a YouTube search on “firecrackers” provides a way more redneck collection of clips than a search on “fireworks.”)

New Gold games:

• Descent: Freespace
• Off-Road Redneck Racing

Warlords expansion for Civ IV and free Shark! Shark!.  Come on now.

New Gold games:

More Interplay games get re-Interjected into the catalog for the Golds this week. For the non-Golds, we’ve set up tables for you to sit down and enjoy some Five Card Deluxe with the Dracula Twins. Also, dscott26’s WTF Wednesday Radio Arcadio is really starting to boom, so strap on your ear goggles and give his beats a listen!

New [and re-Interjected] Gold games:

• Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel
• Descent II
• MDK

New free games:

• Dracula Twins
• Five Card Deluxe

Games featuring Earthworm James are back in the service for all of our sacred goldmembers. (Back to Outpost Kaloki for me, though… almost done with the main campaign.)

New [and returning] Gold games:

Yesterday’s Wednesday WTF kick-off was another installment of ROM Raiders. This time, we’re tearing through The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions. And I have to say that this particular ROM Raiders has successfully done it’s job on ME. I’ve always meant to try the game out, but watching these guys on their justin.tv webcam setup totally sucked me in. Now I’m torn between the weird fascination of watching folks across the office playing a game on a live stream (and popping my green-shirted self in the mix) — and not spoiling myself for my now inevitable playthrough. Make sure you check it out.

New Gold games:

• Astro Fury
• Cradle of Rome

New free game:

• Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

After never pulling the trigger on XBLA, I’ve been completely sucked into Outpost Kaloki from the other week. Having two machines on my desk has never been more dangerous — I keep thinking I can just let it run over on the other system while I work on this one. And then I find myself spending way too much time trying to generate power to build more lemonade stands to fund my power stations to build more lemonade stands…

New Gold games:

• Ducati World Championship
• Tortuga: Pirates of the New World

New free game:

• Brian Lara Cricket