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Free Lumines Port Released on PC

by Nick Breckon, Dec 04, 2007 12:43pm PST

Related Topics – Lumines, Lumines

Q Entertainment and WildGames have joined forces to bring Tetsuya Mizuguchi's music-based puzzle title Lumines to PC players.

Offered on the applicable WildGames site, Lumines includes five modes of play and an online leaderboard. The game is free to download, with a short ad playing before it launches. The advertising-free version can also be purchased for $20.

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Does this thing make you install that WildTangent software crap?

If so... pass....

Unless it's gotten better over the years. Still, I'm sorry - your software to let me run a game does not get to be in my Control Panerl

Dec 04, 2007 1:03pm PST

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Does this thing make you install that WildTangent software crap? If so... pass.... Unless it's gott... : Schnapple
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  It does, but it didn't seem any more obtrusive than any other budget game software. You just hit play, an... : Nick Breckon
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    Yeah I guess I initially had the same hangup about Steam. However, Steam has proven incredibly useful whi... : Schnapple
    - this doesn't install any drivers or put anything in the control panel as far as i can tell, but it does p... : pyide
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  How odd. If thats true then I wonder why they didn't just go with steam + ad shown before launching. : avatar_58
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    WildTangent's been pushing this "driver" idea forever now. I think it was related to the once-novel idea of running a game in a web browser (before Flash became ubiquitous, this was a newish idea). They've stuck deals with people like Dell and so some OEM systems come pre-loaded with the driver (one more piece of crap to uninstall).
    
    Might have worked if the first several WT games weren't total crap. Like some Paul Steed game about a witch running down a tunnel or something.
    
    The other reason, of course, is that WT wants to be Steam - as in, a digital distribution platform.
    
    Dec 04, 2007 1:39pm PST
    
    WildTangent's been pushing this "driver" idea forever now. I think it was related to the once-novel idea ... : Schnapple
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  Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the WildTangent driver/spyware thing used to report back how often yo... : TroZ
  - Man the only reason that's stopping me from playing this is WildTangent. I used to have such a hard time ... : te[R]ror