Don’t let your sleeves dangle. Don’t stand up too fast.
This week, Patrician III allows you to add an “e” to words that don’t need it: towne, faire, shoppe. Puss in Boots does not require an “e” or any other letter. So don’t get fancy.
Also coming later today/tomorrow: the (brief) return of the infamous countdown clock?
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So this past Monday’s first Leaderboard Tournament featuring a GameTap Original and Speed Running instead of High Scoring was a success! I’m way impressed that folks were able to get their score down under 10 minutes. That’s some serious seconds shaving. Check the tournament calendar to see your next few Mondays worth of challenges… and be on the lookout: we might throw a non-Monday tournament or two into the mix with some of your other leaderboard favorites (afeury has specifically promised me a Sky Kid tournament and I WILL HOLD HIM TO IT.)
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The free(*) Grimm convoy continues this week with episode two - American McGee’s Grimm: Little Red Riding Hood. Ok, I’ll go ahead and explain that asterisk now instead of forcing you to hunt for the fine print at the bottom of this post. While the first episode is free to all forever, the remaining 23 episodes will only be free to play for 24 hours, so go get Grimmin’!
Next Monday will be our first Grimm tournament featuring the first, and still free, episode - American McGee’s Grimm: A Boy Learns What Fear Is. This will be our second tournament that features a leaderboard where only your top score is listed (see last week’s leaderboard for Galaga). A lot of people have been asking for single-score-per-user leaderboards for our tournaments for quite some time now, and we’re happy to finally deliver on such a great suggestion from our users!
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In case you haven’t checked out our scrumptious mini-site for it, I write to you today, dear readers, to let you know that the first episode of American McGee’s Grimm is now available! This week’s episode is A Boy Learns What Fear Is, and you, as Grimm, will teach this young man exactly that. And the good part? This episode is free to all. Happily forever after.
The launch of the Grimm games also introduces an unique new leaderboard to GameTap. The Grimm leaderboards are not based on a score, per se, but rather how fast you can complete the game. The faster you can grimmify each fairy tale, the higher you’ll rank on the leaderboards. And the only way to post your times to a Grimm leaderboard is exclusively on GameTap.
Each Grimm game will also be available in our Retail Games section to download as a standalone PC game. We’re even giving away this first episode absolutely free. There’s one tiny catch, though: the standalone versions of each episode don’t have the ability to allow you to post to our leaderboards. But, if you need to play some Grimm on the go, we’ve gotcha covered.
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Continuing to add to our GameTap indies titles, Aveyond 2 is available this week. And if you loved Golden Axe as much as I did during its heyday, you’ll love giving this week’s new free title a try: Knights of the Round.
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So how do you prefer to kill the snaking marble ball things? Shooting from a rotate-y thing in the middle of the screen? If so, stick with Crabby Adventure and Chameleon Gems. If you’re like me and you’d rather have a horizontal Breakout-like paddle anchored to the bottom of the screen, then you’ll like Inca Ball.
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