I’m excited for this announcement as I am a fan of anything that originally had a price hurdle that becomes free, and rather like the idea that I can play as much as I want of DDO.   In this case the company is going the route of micro-transactions to profit.   In order to experience some dungeons/classes or to boost a character a small fee may be paid (Reminds me of the Gunbound system).   Oddly enough I rather support this idea, not only can I play until I run into blocked content (I know there is a class and some other content blocked off, I am under the impression you can reach max level and play a large amount of the game) - plus I can pick and choose to my hearts’ content. If nothing else, I’m certainly not going to argue with free.   An instanced based dungeon crawler I can get all my buddies to play since it’s free?   Count me in.

Hit the jump for images of the quick sign-up and download process at www.ddo.com.

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Quite simply -  A list of exclusive downloads for each current generation console that you should at the very least, look into. (Excluding remakes, and multi-platform titles)

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Not already buried amongst the land fill of Guitar Hero and Rock Band releases?   I was a bit surprised to find what I would actually consider a great deal the other day.  Read more

I normally do not like games that place little emphasis on coherent, serious story.  Epic MegaGames’ Tyrian makes up for its lack of engrossing narrative with the sheer amount of everything else.  It’s undoubtedly the best forced-scrolling shooter I’ve ever played, even though it’s very old.

When I was younger, I was a great fan of shoot-‘em-ups.  I would spend hours playing the sprite-animated glory that was Raptor: Call of the Shadows and even the ultimate in simplicity, Asteroids.  But in my memory, none were superior to Epic MegaGames’ Tyrian.  It’s worth revisiting this old triumph even now, especially because the same software that was once worth upwards of thirty dollars is now available as freeware for just about any computer.

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Here at MEGATONik we always strive to bring our readers new features that are either helpful or at the very least entertaining. I can guarantee that this new feature will do at least one of those each time I am at the writing helm. With that being said, welcome to The Budget Gamer for the week of July 14, 2008!

Not everyone out in the wonderful world of gaming can afford to buy new games all of the time, and from what I’m noticing it is foolish to do so for every game in your library (unless you are dying to get your hands on it).

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