Games Thursday : Take 9 & My Other Gaming Site Recommendations
While you only need a couple of sites to keep track of the latest releases for both the commercial (e.g 2404.org) and indie scenes (e.g IndieGames.com Weblog, JayIsGames), freeware/open-source (e.g Games for Gamers), you can never have too many review sites especially for the booming indie scene. Years ago, I associated indie games with the Finnish and Japanese DOS game scenes, now it appears that everyone is making games with the number of games released these days 
I enjoy game review sites that offer more in-depth impressions and reviews on individual games than the usual one paragraph blurb taken from the readme.txt since it helps me to quickly prioritize which game to download and play with the limited gaming time that I have. Even I haven’t been actively searching for new games to play these days, the IndieGames.com Weblog easily recommends over 10 games in a week (add another 10 flash/casual games from the good guys over at jayisgames) and you quickly realize the regular working guy (or gal) simply just doesn’t have the time to play even 10 games per week.
Today’s site of the day is Take 9, a brand new gaming site launched by Martin of gHacks.net. While Take 9 covers gaming in general, it does boast an excellent and rapidly growing list of reviews on a selection of more obscure games.
To me, a good game review site doesn’t have to write about the latest or the most popular games since I can read about them on the major gaming new sites – I’m much more in favour of sites like Take 9 which write about interesting yet relatively unknown games.
Here’s some of my other gaming site recommendations:
Indie / Freeware / Open Source Games
- the random Gnomes’ random Lair : You gotta love someone who can dig out a game like SimJunta
- PlayThisThing
- A Slime Appears
- RunTime Entertainment : Unique in the sense that these guys not only review games but develop them as well. Check out my impressions of their innovative shmup Space Aggressor
- Indie Games Weblog – doesn’t really go in detail about each game but is an invaluable starting point for newcomers to the indie game scene.
Flash Games
Check out Take 9 and the shmup 2elacsy, the first game that got me interested in Take 9.
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
OpenGlad – Action/RPG Game
Legion of Man Demo Impressions
My Picks from 2x Top 100 Freeware Games Lists
Filler : Strategy/Puzzle Game
Aliens : The Board Game in Flash
Brutal Football : Of Swords, Balls and Old Men
AliensRL : Aliens : Themed Roguelike
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Hey Roys,
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do u know what i found while browsing around take9.com?
i found this freaking weird game “the Mekuri Master, the Skirt-Flip King”, a game about flipping women skirt (??!!) on the exotic genre
it’s hilarious to get this kind of idea, i think this should go perfectly on DS if they’re goin to make it for console
Yeah, I saw that one, not really into that genre :O