Run the program until you get to this screen.

Then just type in ‘Hidden Test‘ + press Enter.

Then, move your mouse around.

=)

Source: http://rangit.com/

Battle For Wesnoth

David White who started Wesnoth back in 2003, had a vision of a free open source strategy game that had very simple rules, uses a strong artificial intelligence, challenging and fun. Wesnoth has already passed the 1 million mark for downloads. As of March 2007, the game is available in 35 different languages.

A normal Wesnoth player has

200+ unit types

16 different races

6 major factions
to choose from. Actually, you can even make your own custom units, design your own map, scenarios or even campaigns. It’s all up to your creativity. The most interesting part of any game is the ability to multiplay. You can challenge up to a total of 8 friends in multiplayer fantasy battles.

Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a free, cross platform, first person shooter distributed under GNU General Public License by Alientrap Software. It started back in May 31 2005 with version 1.0 using DarkPlaces, a significanlty modified quake engine. The current version, 2.2.3, was released on January 26, 2007. Nexuiz’s logo is based on the chinese character “力” which means strength.

Several notable features of the game include

ability to multiplay up to 64 players
ability to generate bots for practice sessions
dynamic lighting system similar to Doom 3

America’s Army

America’s Army is a tactical, multiplayer, first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. The first version, Recon, was released on 4th July 2002. The current version 2.8.1 was released on 22nd Mar 2007.

It’s the first well known computer game used for political aims. The game is used as a playable recruiting tool and critics have charged the game serves as a propaganda device. A counter on the homepage of the PC version shows over eight million registered accounts as of 2007. GameSpy tracked the game usage and reported an average of 4,500 players at any one time between 2002 and 2005. It is enough for America’s Army to rank in the Top 10 Online Games chart.

Enemy Territory : Quake Wars

is a first-person shooter follow-up to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It also has the same science fiction universe as Quake 4, with a story serving as a prequel to Quake II. Quake Wars is the second multiplayer-only game in the Quake series after Quake III Arena. The gameplay is almost the same as Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but with the addition of controllable vehicles and aircraft, asymmetric teams, much larger maps and the option of computer-controlled bots. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is being developed by Splash Damage for the PC using a modified version of id Software’s Doom 3 engine and MegaTexture rendering technology.

At E3 2006(Electronic Entertainment Expo), the game won the Game Critics Award for Best Online Multiplayer.

Tremulous

Tremulous is an open source team-based first-person shooter with a game play that is similar to Gloom(a quake 2 mod) and Natural Selection (a Half-Life mod). The game features two teams, humans and aliens, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The game has been downloaded over 200,000 times and was voted “Player’s Choice Standalone Game of the Year” in Mod Database’s “Mod of the Year” 2006 competition.

Tux Racer

Tux Racer is a newbie friendly, open source, 3D computer game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. Like many open-source games, the replay value of Tux Racer is extended by easy modification of the game. New maps can be created by making three raster images to indicate height, surface, and object placement. The last release of Tux Racer was version 0.61, 29th October 2001.

World Of Padman

WOP is a new and free comic style game that uses the Quake 3 engine. The game was recently featured in 3 German magazine covers; PC Action, ‘BRAVO Screenfun’ and ‘Linux Intern’.

Vendetta

is a first person twitch based MMORPG. New players get an 8 hour trial which is enough to get anyone hooked to it. After that, you gotta pay $5 a month which is quite worthwhile, especially considering the incredibly communicative development of the game. It has a native linux installer as well as one for Macs and Windows.

Alien Arena 2007

Alien Arena is a completely free FPS started by COR Entertainment in 2004 comprising of a science fiction ambience and a Quake like gameplay. This game is playable in single player mode against bots, but the action and thrill lies at the online multiplayer mode. Features of the Alien Arena 2007 include an internal server browser for finding other people to play online and an external program that acts as an IRC interface. There are 6 game types and 6 game mutators that changes the gameplay. Cattle Prod is a new game type that requires you to herd robotic cattle to earn points. Alien Arena 2007 is playable in Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

Urban Terror

A mod of Quake III Arena, Urban Terror focuses a lot on realism. Number of weapons and gear that can be carried is limited. Accuracy is reduced when fired while moving and magazines require reloading upon expension. Damage areas are identified throughout the body. Wounds require bandaging and slows down movement significantly if the damage is not bandaged. Even a stamina bar is present to indicate if the player is able to sprint or jump. Released on 1st April 2007, Urban Terror 4 introduced 4 new features namely, ‘powersliding’, new weapons, player models and improved hit detection. It also supports anti cheating tools like PunkBuster, BattleEye and RunDMC.

A Tale In The Desert

Set in Ancient Egypt, ATITD focuses on society rather than combat. Actually, there is no combat system whatsoever. The fun of the game lies in economic development. Most of the players are from the US and Europe and the variety of social activities encourages a lot of interaction. Players are to participate in building, community, research and test themselves through challenges called ‘Tests’. The male to female players ratio is considerably equal compared to other online games and the game is also noted by many to have high levels of civility and generosity. The first 24 hours is free, after that a monthly fee of $13.95 is required to continue playing.

Second Life

Second Life is an online virtual world that allows ‘Residents’ to explore, meet each other, socialize, participate in group activities, trade items and services. It’s creators, Linden Lab, intends to create a world like the Metaverse described by Neal Stephenson in his novel, Snow Crash. In this Metaverse, people can interact, have fun and do business. The current currency is Linden Dollar (L$) and is EXCHANGEABLE for US$ in a marketplace consisting of residents, Linden Lab and real life companies. It is hardly considered a game as tt does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels or an end-strategy. More than 7 million accounts have been registered since its conception. Basic accounts is free but Premium account is US$9.95 if you want to own lands.

Savage 2

This fantasy / science fiction, real-time strategy, fps, rpg game is a sequel to to S2 Games’ Savage : Battle for Newerth. Both teams of human and beasts are pitted against each other in a gameplay where strategy, agility and alertness is needed. The game is downloadable for free but online access requires a one time account purchase of US$29.99. Activities such as kills, deaths, assists, building razes, damage and score points are tracked. All Savage 2 matches are saved and thus searchable in the form of replays. The automatic replay network is a system that will greatly increase the skill levels of overall player populations and competitiveness.

Warsow

Warsow is a free FPS based in Qfusion 3D engine playable on Windows and Linux developed under the motto ‘by gamers for gamers’. Beta testers from the community goes through internal testing sessions and gives feedback on public releases where the main developers will carefully judge suggestions and comments made. Gameplay is focused a lot on agility. Weapons picked up will have weak ammo until a new ammo pack is found. Graphic effects are minimal, clear and visible.

TrueCombat: Elite

TC:Elite happens to be a total-conversion modification of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory by Team Terminator and Groove Six Studios. The game is free and playable across all platforms. Notable features include iron sights aiming (no crosshair), multi layer object penetration, letterbox / wide screen view modes, lag compensation, client side bullet prediction and support for PunkBuster, the anti cheat software.

Frozen Bubble

The latest version 2.0 includes an adjusted launcher speed, new scoring system, 4 lives and online multiplayer mode, but only available to Linux users at the time of writing. Version 1.0 of the game is available across all platforms including Symbian Series 60 line of smartphones and a single player Java applet version. Written in Perl, the free to play Frozen Bubble features 100 levels and a cute penguin (I think it’s supposed to be Tux) who shoots to form bubbles of the same color.

The Open Racing Car Simulator

TORCS is an open source 3D racing simulator using OpenGL technologies. It is runnable on all Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows platforms. There are 50 different cars, 20 tracks and 50 opponents to race against. The multiplayer mode can accommodate up to 4 human players. Several of the simulation include damaged models, collisions and aerodynamics like ground effects, spoilers, etc. Development is currently being carried out to enable online racing mode.

FlightGear

Since 1996, FlightGear has been a collaborative project that aims to create a sophisticated open source flight simulator framework. FlightGear uses the SimGear simulation engine. Some of the aircraft models available in FlightGear include gliders, helicopters, airliners, fighter jets, etc. Weather effects such as clouds, lightning effects and time of the day is illustrated.

Frets On Fire

Winner of the Assembly Demo Party 2006, Frets on Fire is a music video game that uses the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. The player has to imagine the keyboard as a guitar and pick it up to play. One hand will be used to press the ‘frets’ (F1 to F5) and another will be used to press the ‘picks’ (Shift or Enter). Colored markers that appears are to be played by pressing ‘frets’ of the correct color and ‘picks’ at the correct moment. There are also song editors and tutorials featured in the game. This game was addictive once I got the hang of it.

Scorched 3d

Scorched 3D is a 100% free turn-based artillery game modeled after the classic DOS game Scorched Earth ‘The Mother Of All Games’. Operatable across all operating systems. What started as a 3D landscape generator has now become a cool 3D game that requires skills to master. Players are supposed to take turns homing in to hit the target by adjusting the angle, rotation, power and a weapon of choice every other turn. Hits and kills will generate income for you to buy better weapons and items. Note that items are as important as weapons.

ManiaDrive

ManiaDrive is a free clone of Trackmania, the great game from Nadéo studio, and is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute), and features a network mode, as the original. Lots of crazy driving involved.

Warzone 2100

Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Outside of the story, Warzone 2100 only has a single faction, limiting some of the variety that can be expected from such games of its kind, although the faction is very complex. Essentially, Warzone 2100 plays much like Earth 2150 with 3D units and terrain, customizable vehicles, a lack of traditional standing infantry, use of “research” to acquire new technologies, and perceptible differentiation of vehicles types.

Spring

The game is mainly focused around multiplayer games over the Internet or a LAN connection. There are currently a few single player missions, built on the basic support for this through Lua scripting. There are also many skirmish AIs under development, allowing for offline play or extra players in an online game. Two skirmish AIs ship in the game package, as well as three maps and the XTA mod.

Battle Tanks

“Battle Tanks” is a multiplayer game in the first place. Network game and split screen mode are available, and also a mixed mode is possible, when two players use split screen on the server computer, and others connect via LAN. Two possible modes are deathmatch battle and cooperative game. Hardware requirement is minimum and the game is cross platform.

Excalibur: Morgana’s Revenge v3.0

EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario based upon the Aleph One (Marathon) engine. It is a first-person action adventure game, featuring an epic and in-depth story line. It brings more exciting new maps, new high resolution textures and landscapes, a completely new set of weapons, new monsters and friends, new scenery, new 16-bit sounds, original music, and a carefully woven original story line that transcends time.

Source: http://rangit.com/

The following 17 game console controllers have been modded in ways which left them much different than their original forms.

The Wiimote AK-47 Mod

This Wiimote mod really takes Wii first person shooters to the next level. It has a Wiimote IR sensor modded into the muzzle, along with a function trigger.

The Full Body Wiimote Controller Suit

This mod was made a musician, and it allows the Wiimote to respond to movements from your body. Just think about the possibilities.

The Super-Sized NES Controller Mod

This Super-Sized NES controller is fully functional, allowing you to palm the buttons instead of having to use your fingers. No more numb thumbs.

Motorola SLVR Cell Phone Modded to Fit Inside NES Controller

Yeah this guy is really making a phone call with what appears to be an NES controller. He has actually modded his Motorola SLVR to fit inside an old NES controller.

The Wiimote Controlled Smart Home

This modded Wii allows this Smart Home to be controlled by a Wiimote. It can be used to control the lighting, security cameras, media playback, the cable box and the DVR.

Guitar Hero Guitar Controller with a 7″ Touchscreen LCD In It

This Guitar Hero guitar has a 7″ touchscreen built into it, allowing you to see a mirror image of whatever you would see on the TV.

Wireless NES and SNES Controllers for Your Wii

These modded NES and SNES controllers work with both the Wii and the Gamecube.

The Colt .45 Edition Wiimote Mod

This Wiimote mod was made using aluminum, and it was modeled after the Colt .45 pistol. I think you know what kind of games this ones for.

Xbox 360 Controller Modded for FPS Games

This guy modded an XBox 360 controller to be more comfortable when playing FPS games. He “moved the right hand stick to be level with the left and moved all of the buttons to the back.” I am still scratching my head about this one.

Jumbo Tablet PC Controllers for Nintendo DS

This mod uses two tablet PC screens to control a Nintendo DS. It can also send screenshots of anything on screen to a PC.

The Wiimote Bow and Arrow

This bow and arrow has a Wiimote integrated into it and it is supposed to be sweet for Zelda type games. (Image: Gizmodo.com)

Guitar Hero Pedal Controllers by Ben Heck

So the uber modder, Ben Heck, decided it would be cool to play some Guitar Hero with his feet sometimes. Then he made these. Mission accomplished.

The One Handed XBox 360 Controller

This XBox 360 controller has been modded to allow you to control your XBox 360 with just one hand. This one is also made by Ben Heck.

Atari 2600 Controller Modded into Remote Control for the TV

This simple mod turned the Atari 2600 joystick into a remote for this guys wall mounted TV. Check out the video here.

Wiimote Modded to Work With XBox 360

Ever wanted to control your XBox 360 with your Wiimote? Well this Wiimote has been modded to do just that. (Source: Engadget.com)

iPod Shuffle and NES Controller in One

This NES controller has been modded to play MP3s, using the internals from an iPod shuffle. How is that for a retro MP3 player?

The NES Zapper Computer Mouse

This NES Zapper gun has been modded to work as a mouse. According to the modder, this is “a must have for any hipster kid from the 80’s.”

At first I went around killing as many low-level monsters as possible to try and gold-farm, but I only got a couple bronze per monster, so I felt like I was wasting my time. Once I got to around level 15, I figured out an incredibly easy way to make money on World of Warcraft. Aside from a small amount of money (at least 30 silver), all you need to have success with this method are two mods: Auctioneer and BottomScanner. (You can find these two mods on any World of Warcraft mod site, like http://ui.worldofwar.net/ ).

Once you have the two mods installed, get to the closest Auction House, and first run a scan of all the auctions by clicking Scan on the Browse Auctions window, then click on the BtmScan tab and click the yellow triangle to turn BottomScanner on. Once you have an updated list of what the average buyout price items go for at the Auction House, take a look at all the items you have on you right now and check if you have any items that have a buyout price of at least 10 silver. If you don’t need the item, create an auction and set the buyout price for that item 5-10 silver lower than the normal buyout price in order to guarantee someone will buy your item fast. I do this every time my bags get filled, and since I started auctioning 4 days ago, I’ve made 18 gold.

While you auction your items, BottomScanner should be running in the background. What BottomScanner does is automatically search through all auctions for items that are priced way below the market price, so if you buy them and resell them at the average price, you can make some easy money.

By Alex Mc
http://www.EzineArticles.com/

As your character level increases, you quickly find that it no matter how much time you spend earning World of Warcraft gold, you can always seem to spend it in the blink of an eye.

The purpose of this article is to help you lessen the amount of time that you spend trying to accumulate gold in World of Warcraft by giving you tips that will help you earn gold quickly and easily.

Many players search the Internet for free guides with the hope of finding some in depth strategies for earning gold.

The first thing you need to understand is that until you start leveling your character, you will find the process of earning gold to be very difficult.

Many free guides on the Internet will give you locations that you can travel to and mine or grind your way to large amounts of World of Warcraft Gold. Don’t expect this to work well (or at all) if you are still under level 12.

The reason for it won’t work is that you will often be traveling into areas that are filled with beasts that are level 12 or higher and they will attack and kill you when you are within range. You need to be able to defend yourself adequately before leaving your starting area.

Before you can really start earning gold, you need to have the basics covered. That means you need to have the largest bag that you can afford to carry for starters.

You will also want to increase the amount of bags that you carry as well. This will allow you to loot more of the corpses that you kill and sell that loot for money.

You will also need to get a primary profession that can produce goods that can be sold at high profit margins. At the present time, skinning and mining are the most popular professions among people who are focused on earning as much gold as possible.

The next thing you need to do is look into purchasing a leveling guide. The reasoning behind this is quite simple, you need to get to a certain level in order to leave your starting area and venture into the areas that offer the most opportunity to make World of Warcraft Gold.

A leveling guide gives you step-by-step instructions that when followed, allow you to level your character at a very astounding rate.

Leveling guides work by giving you a proven process for completing multiple quests in a highly efficient manner. This saves your character the time of running from place to place, allowing you to complete all the quests in one area in a sequential order.

The leveling guide will also show you how to turn in the quests in a sequential manner, picking up new quests along the way. Using a leveling guide is essential to getting World of Warcraft riches.

Do not fall into the trap of paying real money for World of Warcraft Gold. While it seems innocent enough, it is actually against the terms of service and if you are found buying gold for your account, your entire account will get banned.

Also, even if you had 200 gold as a level 1-12, there is not much that you can do with it. World of Warcraft gold is most needed as your character surpasses level 18, and can start buying weapons and abilities that can make your character very powerful and much more useful in battle.

The phrase time is money is very applicable here. The less time you spend researching the watered techniques given in free guides, the more time you have to play the game and level your character. Thousands of people are using leveling guides to go from level 1 to level 60 in 5 to 7 days.

By KJ Ross
http://www.articlecrux.com/