Game downloader 3.8: more then 300 free games

Game Downloader is a compact application that helps you find, download and play over 320 games totally free.

The games available are organized into several categories: Arcade, Board Games, First Person Shooter, Strategy etc.. Just choose your favorite category to see what is available for download.
Select a game from the presented list and have access to a summary, a text description, an image, whether or not it supports multipleplayers, if you need an account to play, ...

License: Freeware
OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
Download: Game Downloader 3.8 
Homepage: Devfire 

GTA V cover revealed

Rockstar showed the cover of the new Grand Theft Auto.

 
As promised, Rockstar, GTA V producer, announced on its website the official cover of this new game series. As is tradition in the Grand Theft Auto series, this cover is a mosaic of images of art like comic books, leaving foresee certain recognizable locations in the state of San Andreas.

Elements such as the sign of Vinewood and the pier and the channel of Los Santos are well distinguishable and should not go unnoticed to fans of Grand Theft Auto.

Games help to be multitasking

A study conducted in the U.S. shows that people who play first person shooter titles can perform multiple tasks easier than those who do not play.

The study divided a group of young students into two groups: a control group, who did the tests Multi-Attribute Task Battery twice, without having ever played, and a second group who took the test before playing and repeated after ten weeks playing PS3.
The group of students who had been playing  had better results than the control group. "Playing such games enhances the ability to distribute visual attention in space and pay attention to details," said the authors of a study conducted at the University of California. 

Minecraft Snapshot 12w34a

So while you wait for that, here are the changes in this week’s snapshot:

• Added item frames
• Added cobblestone walls (yes, mossy too)
• Maps now align to a grid, making it easier to create adjacent maps. Maps can also be cloned
• Stairs now auto-arrange into corners. This is a test and may change based on feedback
• Mobs can travel through portals
• Leather clothes can be dyed
• Removed the “wip block” from the creative menu
• Added two new crops and associated items
• F3+P will toggle the auto-pause when the window loses focus (it’s for debugging, mainly)
• F3+H will toggle detailed item descriptions (also for debugging)
• Added arrow-sensitive wooden buttons
• Trapdoors can be placed in top-most position (based on cross-hair aim)
• Added Potion of Invisibility. 

Download the snapshot here:

• Client: Minecraft_12w34a.jar
• Server: Minecraft_Server_12w34a.jar (or EXE)

Valve improves Games for Linux

The game Left 4 Dead 2 had a 14% higher performance on a Linux system compared to a Windows system with the same hardware configuration.

The game was tested on a machine with an Intel Core i7 3930k, Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 and 32 GB of RAM. In the system with Ubuntu 12 and Open GL, the game has a performance of 315 FPS, while the Windows 7 machine was up by 270.6 FPS. 

The research team concluded that the Valve Open GL is more efficient to process data than Direct3D technology. The Linux Valve team will still have to battle a lot, especially to get work with the graphics card manufacturers such as AMD or Nvidia. 

These tests are published days after the CEO of Valve have stated that Windows 8 was a disaster and that the company would turn over to Linux.

Minecraft Snapshot 12w30a/c/d

August 1st is almost there and Mojang team is working hard on 1.3 version

These are the  some updates of 12w30a

• Made creepers stronger.
• Depending on difficulty, creeper damage is scaled now.
• Easy: ~50% less damage.
• Normal: same damage as before.
• Hard: ~33% more damage than before.
• "In full diamond armour + hard difficulty a creeper can knock you down to 2 hearts".
• Creeper explosions, Fire Charge explosions, and TNT give off a knockback.
• Stairs, when placed on the upper half of a block's side, will now be placed upside-down
• In F3 mode, the y coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level.
• Survival mode's command: /gamemode 3 is changed to /gamemode 0
• Added Snooper Settings.
• Allows you to toggle whether your data are sent to Mojang for analysis and improvements, shows which data will be sent to Mojang.
• Improved performance.
• Accelerated chunk loading.
• Decreased lag spike frequency.
• Made the Nether less laggy.
• Made chat work smoothly even when the server is lagging.
• Decreased unnecessary world updates.
• Decreased packets sent between client and server.
• Added Vertical Synchronization.
• Has to be toggled manually in options.txt.

Minecraft on a Scale of Universe

If you go to this Universe scale, you can find a minecraft world next to Neptune.
You can check it here: http://htwins.net/scale2/

Minecraft Snapshot w27

The release date to Minecraft 1.3 is in August 1st.

• Performance improvements, including reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth requirements.
• Updated Pistons to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also altered the way Pistons work, so you might have to adapt your repeater delays and similar.
• Added /debug <start|stop> command.
• Signs are stackable up to 16.
  • Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.
• Creative mode inventory now shows potion effects.
• Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player.
  • In creative mode, Boats and Minecarts are destroyed in one click.
• Gaining Experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore. (Mining Coal will give you the least amount while Diamond Ore & Emerald Ore will give the most amount of XP).
• Fortune enchantments no longer affect Experience drop rates
• The Debug (F3) Pie chart now shows the game rendering performance (White)
• Nether Wart can now grow in the Overworld and The End

Bug Fixes:

All text on the signs is gone upon loading the world, the text is actually still saved but not shown. Additionally, pigs show in all spawners. Both have been confirmed fixed for next snapshot. The snapshot may give "Internal Server Error" randomly, kicking the player. Quickly reconnecting may result in a crash of the Minecraft client. When the server is set to spawn-monsters=false The server still naturally spawns them. Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft.jar Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft_server.jar  You can also check more information about Minecraft 1.3 here: http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft-1-3-info-snapshot-w27/

Minecraft Snapshot Week 25

The 1.3 version should be out soon i hope, so far we have the snapshots.

And these are the news:

• Added an "Open to LAN" menu in the in-game menu, which allows players to open their world to other players. In the menu, the player can choose to turn cheats on or off, and choose the game mode.
• The multiplayer menu now scans for LAN servers (singleplayer worlds which are on the same LAN and have been published with the /publish command).
• Villagers may remove a trade option after it has been used at least 3 times.
• Added wooden stairs for the remaining three wood types (spruce, birch and jungle).
• Redstone (including repeaters, torches, levers, and pressure plates) and Rails can now be placed on slabs and stairs positioned upside down.
• Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.
• Pigs now drop 1-3 Porkchops instead of 0-2.
• Improved memory usage.^[2]
• “A lot of smaller changes and fixes”.
• The /tp command now allows teleporting to specified coordinates.
  • The syntax for this is /tp [target player] <x> <y> <z>.
  • The other functionality of the /tp command is still there. 
  
  
  

Get the snapshot here: 

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w25a/minecraft.jar
• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w25a/minecraft_server.jar

Minecraft Snapshot Week 24

So last week snapshot doesn't any news, it was only to fix some bugs...

But this week we have more great news

• Allowed those connected to a player's LAN network to join SP games
  • The player can now use “/publish” to open your single-player game for LAN players to join. This is still very much work in progress, so it lacks some necessary settings such as what game mode players will get, and if they should be able to use cheats or not. Also, the “/publish” command is temporary, since the player can not even access it if they have not enabled cheats (LAN connections will be GUI based in the future)
  • Added the /tp command from multiplayer to singleplayer, allowing teleporting between players.
• The player can now place Levers on the underside of blocks, upside-down^[2]
• Improved Ender Chests
  • Now has an inventory per player and not per world. Also, knocking down the chest will break it into 8 obsidian, unless the player has Silk Touch
• Updated language files
  • End Portal Frames now have a tooltip
• The texture pack folder button now works on Mac.
• A lot of smaller changes and fixes.

Minecraft Snapshot Week 22

From now i'll follow the minecraft snapshots.

This is ,personally, one of the best snapshots, it has some great news, i can't wait for 1.3 update.

Quick overview of changes:

• Trading with villagers has been updated;
• Enchantment system has been rebalanced;
• A new Redstone-activating block;
• Better Creative inventory;
• Pausing should work in single-player now;
• Some minor terrain changes;
• Added an “adventure” game mode (/gamemode 2), but requires more work;
• A lot of smaller changes and fixes.

Some screenshots that i took in game:

 New creative inventory

 Added emerald ore/block and emerald

New buildings (Desert and Jungle Temple)

 New Redstone-activating block

 Get the snapshot here:

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w22a/minecraft.jar 

• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w22a/minecraft_server.jar (or EXE)

My minecraft castle (singleplayer)

I found this awesome canyon so i decide to made my first minecraft singleplayer castle (on creative mod.

This image was created with minecraft cartograph.(Click it to enlarge)

Play the video down to watch the interior of the castle.

Diablo III out on May 15

Studio Blizzard confirmed this Thursday, the third chapter of the Diablo series will be released on May 15th for PC and Mac, but must be purchased initially, via digital, meaning you need to do the download. The game have suggested retail price of 59.99€.

In Diablo III, players will take one of the five heroic characters - Barbarian, Wizard, Arcanist, Monk, or Demon Hunter - and will enter a fight against high pulse endless legions of evil. Upon entering an epic quest to rid the corrupt forces Shrine Burning Hell, players will explore various scenarios and dangerous, will gain experience and skill, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and know key players who will join them in battle or help in other ways. 

Minecraft - My favourite game

To iniciate my blog I will bring for my first review the game "Minecraft"

Minecraft is a rpg about placing cubes, focused on building and creativity. You have two game modes, survival and creative. As the name says, on the first one you need to survive, you have to search for resources, as food, wood and other blocks, on the middle of the desert, florest, swamp, caves, etc. On the creative mode you have unlimited resources, and also the ability to fly.

Not everything its easy, on survival not only you need to maintain your health and hunger, but also you need to survive against monsters, like, zombies, skeletons, creepers, and more...

But if you think that be alone in a unlimited world its sad you have the option to play it online with your friends and make an awesome explorer adventure, and survive together.

The game was designed by Marcus (Notch) Person, and developed by mojang. To play the you only need to create an account and download the minecraft.exe. You can also buy the game to have some extra options, like play on premium servers or change your skin.

Now some ingame pictures:

Don't judge the game by its graphics.