Arcade Shooter

Deep Font Challenge

For Type Geeks Only

Type:
Flash
Developer:
Deep Design

Deep Font Challenge is a little arcade shooter which displays one character in two or more fonts, and tells you to "shoot" the one that's in a font named on the same screen. If you choose wrong, you lose one of three lives, and if you choose right, you score points. At game end, you can post your score to a shared leaderboard.


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Weapon of Choice

Walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the... clam?

Type:
Demo Download
System Requirements:
Xbox 360/ Internet connection
Developer:
Mommy's Best Games

On November 19th, Microsoft launched "the New XBox Experience", which included a lot of big changes to the XBox 360 dashboard, including "avatars" (think "Miis"), Netflix movie streaming, and the ability to dump games from disc to your hard drive, making them run faster (but still requiring the disc to launch the game).

A feature of the New XBox Experience that flew under the radar of most game websites, however, is "XBox Live Community Games" -- a subset of XBox Live Arcade games created exclusively by hobbyists and tiny companies, using a free programming framework provided by Microsoft.


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World War II Tank Commander

Release Your Inner Patton

Type:
Shareware
System Requirements:
Win 98+/1GHz CPU/256MB RAM/32MB VRAM/DirectX 9+
Developer:
Sylum Entertainment

If you're looking for an Allied alternative to the old Panzer Commander simulation, this isn't it. But for a budget arcade game featuring tanks, you could do a lot worse than WWII Tank Commander. And let's face it: there aren't many games on this subject these days, particularly on the PC. It just might be what you need to get that arcade aficionado to move past fantasy or first person shooters long enough to take a tank for a test spin....


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Stealth Combat

Mission-Based Tactical Real-time Combat

Type:
Demo Download
System Requirements:
Win 95+/300MHz CPU/32 MB RAM/8 MB VRAM
Developer:
Deck13 Interactive

In each level of Stealth Combat, you control a vehicle, ranging from an armed jeep to a Star Wars-like walker. Often (but not always) you have a variety of subordinate vehicles you can issue orders to. Each mission has a series of objectives--and generally, the other side has enough firepower to wipe out your entire force if you just charge in firing blindly. Which is where the "stealth" aspect comes in; this isn't quite Thief for vehicles--combat is often necessary--but succeeding typically requires a degree of finesse as well as mastery of the combat UI.


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