Multiplayer Game Archive

  • Team Fortress 2 is free this weekend! (but only this weekend)

    Team Fortress 2 is free this weekend! (but only this weekend)

    Young lads, the TF2 will be free this weekend only. Jump onto Steam right now and start preloading the awesome multiplayer game. You'll be able to start playing this Thursday night as the new WAR! update goes live that features new special items and maps. Isn't this glorious news?!

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  • Evony ad campaign: Where breasts trick you into playing a Civ clone

    Evony ad campaign: Where breasts trick you into playing a Civ clone

    I'm sure you've seen this ad online at some point in your Internet travels. It's for the game Evony, an online Civilization clone that, while it doesn't outright stink on ice, it isn't the best, either. But the game's quality is irrelevant, for today we're looking at the game's rubbish ad campaign. Basically, it consists of a pair of breasts plastered all over the Internet.

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  • So Mafia games are really popular?

    So Mafia games are really popular?

    I guess Mafia games are a big hit these days. Zynga's Mafia Wars, a multiplayer game that's playable on social networks like Facebook, as well as the iPhone, has attracted some 4 million gamers to its clutches. (This, despite the fact that it's more or less a rip-off of the earlier Mafia Life game.) Part of the game's success, I think, can be attributed to the fact that, unlike in games like World of Warcraft, there's not as much of a social stigma attached to “whacking” rival mobsters—slaying dragons and whatnot is still sorta “nerdy,” something that good ol' Cnet says, too. So we're in good company here.

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