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Cool game and a really beautiful style. The detail in the menu design, the background music (which shifts between victorian classical music and rock’n roll). I applaud!

Play Victorian BMX at AdultSwim.

Instant love!

If you are to download a game today it should be this. Icarus Proudbottom at Something Awful Game Development Challenge and a couple of videos at IndieGames. The game was made by the two fellows from the band 1-2-3 Blast On!. The game is totally free! And it’s for both Windows and OS X! Download the game from the Something Awful Game Development Challenge website.

Ars Technica posted a comment on Activision Blizzards restrictions on mod creation (StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom). The essence is that such restrictions will harm us as players.

I disagree. By letting Activision Blizzard moderate the mods being submitted by the players, we will end up with a catalogue of the best mods. And that makes us talk even better about the game to our friends that have not tried the game. We will also enjoy the game because we can rest assure that the mods we download are most likely worth downloading. Once we realise that most of the mods are crap we will most likely stop downloading (or purchasing for that sake).

It’s just like Apple’s AppStore (all though there is some crap on AppStore, but that’s my opinion). Take a look at Android’s application store. It’s full of crap because nobody moderates the content. It gives a bad impression of the platform.

Go Blizzard!

Fieldrunners for iPhone

A couple of days ago I purchased the game Fieldrunners (by Subatomic Studios) for my iPhone, and in an instant it became my (so far) alltime favorite iPhone game.

The concept is simple; kill the creeps before they get out of sight. Unlike the popular Flash Elements TD, Fieldrunners take a slightly different perspective and removes the track. The field is left completely open for you to decide where you will place the turrets.

There are already written a few other reviews of the game, so I won’t bother repeating what’s already been written. If you want to know more about the game, have a look at these sites:

• iPhone App Review: The best game for the iPhone, Fieldrunners
• OS X Reality: New Highly Addictive Tower Defense Game Fieldrunners for the iPhone (With screenshots and video)
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Fieldrunners: DTD for iPhone
• Touch Arcade: ‘Fieldrunners’ Delivers a Very Polished Tower Defense Game
• ars technica: Review: Fieldrunners for iPhone appeals to Tower Defense nerds (A thorough review)
• Macworld: Review: Fieldrunners for iPhone

There are also alternatives to Fieldrunners, both for iPhone/iPod Touch and your computer;

• Flash Elements TD 1.0
• Flash Elements TD 2.0
• Desktop TD
• Protector
• Vector TD
• Zombie Attack! (iTunes link)
• Hordes of Orcs (for OS X and Windows)
• TowerDefend (for iPhone and iPod Touch)

Convinced? Buy Fieldrunners at AppStore!