Today only Amazon.com are selling Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus for the PC at $6.99, reduced from $19.99 with free shipping if you add another $18.01 to your cart.

A rollercoaster of adventure, death and destruction

Today only Amazon.com are selling Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 for the PC at $9.99, reduced from $14.99 with free shipping if you add another $15.01 to your cart.

A year old Soccer management game, but it’s at a great price

A fist full of Windows games this week with a couple of new GameTap indies to try out. Now you can all try the legend that is… Daikatana

Daikatana
2000 | Action | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 319.6MB
There’s a huge group of people that missed out on trying Daikatana, with the games legendary status, it’s something you should experience. It also doubles as a great competition to see who can stand to play the game for the longest

Infernal
2007 | Action | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 856.8MB
Wow, Infernal is just a few months old and really looks great, it has some totally excessive bloom effects and some pretty sharp graphics that perform very well. Sadly the graphics outshine the rest of the game by a great deal, the art department spent some time on this one, but the gameplay just feels a little flat and dull. Infernal definitely fell short of it’s potential

Blast Miner
2007 | Puzzle | Windows | Cryptic Sea | 19.7MB
Blast Miner looks like a Tetris game, but then you notice the physics, then things start exploding! This is a fun distraction but it seems rather mindless with the main arcade mode. Try out the puzzle option and see what you think

Morning Wrath
2005 | Role-Playing | Windows | Ethereal Darkness | 111.5MB
A brave effort at crating a top down RPG, as much as I can see the effort that went into the game I can’t really recommend it unless this is really your bag

Startopia
2001 | Simulation | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 211.5MB
Startopia is the only other game this week, besides Daikatana that I’d  even heard of this week.  This is definitely the ace  of the releases here, with some quirky characters and decent gameplay. It’s not without its faults by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s a good time.

After the break is the listing of the new and current free ad supported Gametap games.

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Today only Amazon.com are selling Lord Of The Rings: Shadows Of Angmar Special Edition for the PC, for $26.99, reduced from $49.95 with free shipping.

LOTRO is a guilty pleasure of mine, it plays much like WoW but it has it’s own charm and unique features. A fan of the movies or maybe even the books would likely have a fair bit of enjoyment from this, especially if he/she only had to pay $26.99 for it.

Collectors edition is just $3 more and includes: FREE subscription(?), 128-page manual, cloth map of Middle-Earth, digital art book, exclusive figurine, exclusive in-game items: “Cloak of the Peace Keeper” +2 Peace Morale Regen.

Today only Amazon.com are sellingJade Empire Special Edition for the PC for $9.99, reduced from $29.99 with free shipping if you add another $15.01 to your cart

Released nearly two full years after its Xbox counterpart, Jade Empire for the PC is a fine and rather typical Bioware Action, Role-Playing game. The game has a wonderful story but the engine feels like a slightly dumbed down arcade version of Knights of the old republic. Regardless, this is still a fantastic game that anyone interested in the main plot will get a lot of fun out of this

Today only Amazon.com are selling Command & Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars Kane Edition DVD for the PC for $39.99, reduced from $59.99 with free shipping.

A decent deal on a collectors edition of a great game. Really, you should buy this.

Thief: Deadly Shadows
2004 | Action | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 823.7MB
The thief series has been leading the stealth action genre for some time, the whole series reached it’s pinnacle with the latest version “Thief: Deadly Shadows”. The same great missions and style of the previous two games, it’s a pity the series never continued beyond this.

Hospital Tycoon
2006 | Strategy | Windows | Codemasters | 134.3MB
Every remember Theme hospital? It was a rather fun god game produced by Bullfrog back in the late ninety’s, now, nearly ten years later, Codemasters have a shot at the same thing. This is a very obvious clone of the original, but upgraded with 3D graphics, sadly the whole charm of Theme Hospital is lost here, the sounds get frustrating beyond belief and the gameplay is horribly repetitive. New patient enters, send them to get examined, if it’s a new disease send them to research, build new test rooms, build new treatment room, cure disease. This repeats over and over without any kind of variety, which is a real shame as I did enjoy the old Hospital game.

Delta Force Task Force Dagger
2002 | Action | Windows | NovaLogic | 185.5MB

Delta Force Xtreme
2005 | Action | Windows | NovaLogic | 310.1MB
The Delta Force series was hugely popular around the beginning of the series, with it’s ability to render huge areas on machines that could usually not achieve large draw distances. The series isn’t as popular as it was, but it is fun to play these two games and see how far the series came graphically in just 3 short years. My biggest gripe with the delta force series was always the extreme accuracy of the weapons, basically, if you can see it, you can hit it, no matter what gun you are equipped with. This made multiplayer matches very focused on camping, and matches could take a frustratingly long time. Besides a couple of gripes though, both these games are well worth your time

Praetorians
2003 | Strategy | Windows | Eidos Interactive | 366.3MB
I didn’t get a lot of time with this, it’s a lot like Age of Empires and seems like a great game of it’s kind

Championship Wrestling
1987 | Sports | Commodore 64 | Ironstone | 225.8KB + Mac
Wow, I remember playing WWF Wrestlemania back on the C64 the loading times were well beyond what anyone could tolerate today. Playing Championship Wrestling is a painful reminder of ‘classic’ wrestling. It’s worth trying out for a look into the past, but not for any kind of in depth fun.

Today only Amazon.com are selling Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War DVD-Rom for the PC at $3.99, reduced from $29.95 with free shipping if you add another $21.03 to your cart.

Wow, this isn’t something I’ve played before and the reviews aren’t exactly showing this as grade A material, but $4 for a year old game?

Today only Woot.com are selling Nyko Air Flo EX USB Controller for PC/MAC – 2 Pack at $8.99, with $5 shipping.

It’s been a long while since I’ve seen Woot sell video game accessories, $14 for two rather nice looking game controllers seems like a good deal to me

Today only Amazon.com are selling Bad Day LA for the PC at $7.97, reduced from $19.99 with free shipping if you add another $17.03 to your cart. No free shipping here

A 2006 American McGee game for under 8 bucks? Sounds like a heck of a deal huh? I’ll give you a quote and a piece of advice and let you make your own decision.

PC Gamer gave it a 20, saying it was “so tasteless I needed to wash myself with lysol after playing the game”

Don’t buy this game!