Friday Freebie

Yay it's another Friday Freebie~ and I don't know anybody that doesn't like free stuff so don't you go changing that. OH RIGHT, the post...AHEM-

Have you ever thought of how great your life would be if you could just ride up a rainbow escaping the doldrums of your mundane existence and fly across a cloudy sky collecting stars as you go? No? Alright, me neither, but Whale Trail Frenzy might make you want to.

Click the link below to see if your technicolored dreams come true! (Bonus points if you can beat my high score!)

Friday Freebie

Taking a short break from GW2 with today's post! Don't worry, it won't last.

As anybody that lives within a Skype call of me can attest, I am addicted to gaming phone apps. I really enjoy pouring time into turret defense and strategy style games with the occasional "jumper" thrown in the mix to keep things fresh (I'm looking at you Unicorn Dash). Pair that with my love for dragons and that, my friends, is the recipe for prescription glasses...which I'm going to need after playing through this Friday's Freebie two-fer offering!

Download: Lair Defense Dungeon

CLICK THE BREAK FOR THE SEQUEL- AND THEN SOME!

F2P Series - Smite (Beta)

With this post we will be concluding our F2P series for the indefinite future as Guild Wars 2 is launching in a matter of hours(!) and we suspect the blog will become saturated with offerings of useless information and ridiculous hijinks focused on the lands of Tyria... that is until we reach burnout and/or inevitable disappointment!

With that said, Bheez and I were lucky enough to be able to experience Smite in its "closed beta" for the past couple of weeks (along with the other 500 thousand people that applied for a free beta key). Smite is the love child that you'd get if a MOBA and MMORPG stayed in while listening to some Teddy Pendergrass. In fact, why don't you go ahead and click on over to that link to set the mood for this post.

If you like the above mentioned game genres then it's very likely you'll like Smite. Unless you can't stand ancient lore and culture references, or monkeys, then you won't like it at all. Smite pits some of history's most badace gods against one another with a MOBA style flow but changes things up by using a 3rd person perspective- giving it a battleground feel. As our friend Hooch once put it, "It's like a 30 minute MMO". Indeed it is.

CHOOSE YOUR GOD- BY CLICKING THE LINK!

F2P Series - DC Universe Online

DC Universe Online; home to the superhero and (super)villains of yesteryear... yesteryear being January of 2011 when DCUO launched as a subscription based game. They say the first year is always the hardest and in this game's case it would seem the first 11 months were so rough it couldn't even make it to its first anniversary before succumbing to the F2P game model in November.

Well, DC Universe, you have my attention now!

I remember hearing about this game but never really looking into it because, well, let's be honest (since I'm normally not with you)... I'm just not into spandex and face paint. I'm MUCH more into swords, spells, 'n face paint. Seeing as how Bheez has a flare for the dramatic this game was right up his alley, and mine too since I signed on to do this review series. And you know what? If I have to suffer then everybody does. That's why I invited Shirley to guest review on this installment of the F2P Series!

SEE HOW WE FARED IN A WORLD ALMOST AS SCARY AS THE REAL ONE!

Dragon Nest sample PvP

As promised

F2P Series - Dragon Nest

So it was only a couple days into our stint with DDO when Bheez kept shoving this F2P down my throat. He was so excited about it that he started it without me... which royally pissed me off. So naturally I jumped on installing it and getting started myself without telling him. Because, yes, it IS a pissing contest. Always (and forever~).

My initial opinion was that I wouldn't like this game because firstly it's made by a Korean company (too many bad experiences), and secondly it is done in the typical anime-ish style that just doesn't do it for me (again, too many bad experiences). However, coming fresh off of playing DDO I figured it couldn't get more annoying so I dove in, and surprisingly didn't regret it.

READ MORE OF MY HATE OF ALL THINGS AZN AFTER THE JUMP! Ok not all things... I like the food... and also the cute little things they make to hold other cute little things in... and the shrimp flavored candy...and the engrish stationary... andandand-

F2P Series - Dungeons & Dragons Online

Ah Dungeons & Dragons! Arguably one of the most popular war-gaming franchises to date, steeped in history (hey, it's from the 70's so it's practically, like, ancient /side-eye) and controversy (who can forget the religious propaganda claiming it was the gateway to hell!) even in this modern day. One of my first experiences with the game was in college when I was visiting a friend, she introduced to me to her circle of peeps (mmm peeps) that just so happened to be playing the table top game.  I watched for a while and thought it seemed kinda neat, if you're into LARPing, which I'm not. ANYWAY. Later on a co-worker of mine mentioned he played the table top as well and then got me into painting minis. It was a phase, don't judge me!


In short: I've never played the game!  


So, when Bheez and I sat down to figure out what we were gonna do with ourselves over the next several weeks until GW2 goes live he threw out the names of a bunch of F2P games we should explore. And, naturally, being familiar-ish with the D&D brand I decided it would be a good place to start. 




PICS AND MAYHEM... AND MORE WORDS... AFTER THE JUMP!

Friday Freebie

It's Friday, yeees!

So I sometimes catch myself away from the computer, you know those odd moments where you have to leave the house for essential life sustaining items (aka a McFlurry run). Or maybe waiting between class or heck even IN class, or at work... workin' hard. You get the idea. Sometimes I need to satisfy my gaming urges while I'm other places than in front of my comp and if you have a smartphone (liberally applied term- 1st gen Nexus boo) and you have access to the Anroid Marketplace then you're in luck.

A Knights Dawn is a medieval fantasy turret defense type game. It has a good story, unlockable perks and four difficultly levels, upgradeable units and the graphics are great! The best part is that it's free! And it's not one of those "free" games that if you want extra neat stuff you have to buy points with your real money- I mean it has the option but everything in the game is obtainable through the game play as well so that's a plus.

^ I know it's totally badass, right??

Download here: A Knights Dawn

xo Glynnia