July winner

Here a quick post to announce the winner for July review. Keep writing reviews of our beloved abandonware games, the contest will continue all along 2011. It seems Duke Nukem mania is continuing, probably thanks to the new Duke Nukem forever release.

The winner of the prize is Jacob from Ohio with the review written on July 9th for Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition. Jacob told us that his best games ever are Duke Nukem 3D, Destruction Derby and Test Drive. Why does he like them so much? because they are really awesome and he has been playing a lot.

He chose another Duke Nukem episode, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, he never played to this episode and he would like trying it out, here a demo:

Hey dude, bring respect!

Today I want to dedicate a post about games born by movies, gangster movies in particular. The idea to write this post has born after looking at my poster of "The Untouchables" on my room's wall. "The Untouchables" movie release in 1987 and is a cult of his genre. After two years OCEAN produced the game for Commodore 64 and DOS version for pc. I remember when I played The Untouchables
I was about eight years old and I will not forget the hours spent in front of my C64 because of the difficulty of some levels.

The Witcher winners

Finally we had them! It took quite a long time (due to holidays) and also because several people we contacted did not reply back (we're still re-drawing the June review winner...): are you all guys on holiday too?

Well, about The Witcher giveaway we gave coupons to two of our users, a Facebook profile, and a Twitter one. The third was another Facebook follower but we did not receive any answer, so, we're going to use the last coupon for another contest during next month.

Our twitter winner is Kevin from New York City. His top 3 old games are
X-Com UFO Defense, Wizardry 7, and Jagged Alliance. What he likes more of Squakenet? "Squakenet.com is awesome, because they don't make games like these any more": wise words man, wise words...

We're going to come back very soon with the new contest to giveaway the last free copy of The Witcher.

Keep tuned.

DotEmu integration

Here we are, back from holidays, fresher as we've never been!! Yep, holidays help a lot, indeed. First news we have to give you is we already drawn the winners for the pending contests opened, 3 free copies of The Witcher for our Blogspot, Twitter and Facebook friends and a free game to be chosen for June review contest. Check your emails and profiles, you may be the one.

Then, let's give you another great news... Squakenet just integrated with a very interesting digital download service, DotEmu. This new service (http://www.dotemu.com/en) is quite similar to GOG and it's online since a while. They have a very wide catalog (more than 150 games) you will be able to browse and download.

Holiday time

July first... time to take a break and spend some time in total relax. Yes, as many of you already did, are doing or are going to do, we are going to take a rest some days for Summer. We have some pending prizes to deliver (3 Witcher games for our Blogspot, Twitter and Facebook followers and 1 game to be chosen for June reviews), we're not forgetting, but due to the incoming holiday we're postponing for a couple of weeks.

In the while, we're going to leave you with a typical summer game, Holiday Island game. It's like Sim City game, but the difference is you will have to build your own "holiday place", with more than 60 buildings, 6 scenario, 3 great music playground and a lot of fun, here a trailer:



You're going to spend a very good time with this simulation games, we're going to see you very soon.

Cheers,
Squake.