The GameShadow Blog

Here at GameShadow one of our favourite snacks whilst we’re gaming are Pringles.
We’re marking this by playing a free game called Xtreme Gladiatorial Challenge.
Why not take the challenge, let us know your high scores and tell us what you enjoy eating whilst you’re playing.

GameShadow, dtp and Duracell have teamed up to bring you a cool competition.
We’re giving you the chance to win a Nintendo Wii.
All you have to do is play the Summer Athletics 2009 Free Game.

GameShadow has many great free games; The Suffering, Full Spectrum Warrior and Area 51 to name just a few. But it’s the newest addition to this list  – Facewound – that has really grabbed me, it’s truly something else, and I’m really not an indie game fan.
Put it this way: Who doesn’t love a game [...]

It’s that time again: when Valve showers us with gifts in a way few other developers are prepared to do.
Today’s update is centred around the Pyro, where the last one was aimed at the Medic, and will see 35 new Pyro achievements, three new unlockable weapons, a new alt fire for the flamethrower, the [...]

7 Minutes is a game-in-a-week formed from traditional platforming mechanics, stylised and perfectly pitched to tell a story.
The game pitches you as a man – who looks strangely like a small black square with eyes – who has seven minutes left to live. The game taunts you as you progress through its many levels, all [...]

We Tell Stories is an attempt to tell a multu-part, multi-author story via Google Map. Narration takes place as bubbles mapped to locations in London, with a the story moving accross the map as it progresses.
“In the beginning there was a contest of strength amongst the most prominant figures in scripture to determine the mightiest. [...]

Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, made infamous for his ridiculing, fast paced video reviews, has a huge back catalogue of reviews, articles and… games over at his fullyramblomatic.com website.
Of all his games, Trilby is one of the best, and most accessible – ie it doesn’t involve trolling through reams and reams of text. It’s a retro 2D [...]

Following on from the roaring success of last year’s free, web-based Epic Saga – Extreme Fighter, Double Fine has launched another free, and immensely silly game.
My Game About Me – Olympic Challenge is, if it’s possible, even sillier. Developed by team member Nathan Stapley, it features three Olympic events, ranging from Sleeping to Eating, and [...]

Ubisoft has just announced the launch of Heroes of Might and Magic Kingdoms, a free MMO that will be launched in Spring 2008.
 The decision to base the MMO on the long-running Heroes of Might and Magic series, a turn-based strategy game, rather than the even more venerable Might and Magic series of RPG games, is perhaps surprising. The press [...]

I’ll never cease to be impressed with the community following Portal has garnered in the short time since its release. User-made maps were always a given, but the wealth of goodwill and talent that’s seen plush companion cubes, Half-Life 2 mods and cut-out paper models rise in its wake is fantastic to be a part [...]

GTA was great. Free games are great. Which means GTA for free is great squared.
Rockstar has released the classic GTA (genre defining with rubbish shooting), GTA 2 (GTA but better in every aspect, apart from the shooting) and Wild Metal (looks a bit average, but who am I to judge?) for free.
Releasing back catalogue for [...]

Free games are sometimes a bit average. This one isn’t.
The original Xenon 2 is one of my earliest gaming memories – just about one of the only thing that would play on what may or may not have been a 486.
There’s obviously a big old retro thing that’s been going on for the last few [...]