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Together Shackers, we shall valiantly charge into a new chatty. So thanks to Nick we had a nice little interview with the lead designer of the forthcoming Silent Hill 5, so if Pyramid Head means something to you then take a look. And if you're looking for something a bit more interactive, then why not sign up for the Battlefield Heroes beta for PC?

Jeff "geedeck" Gondek

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May 21, 2008 5:45 AM

So has everyone noticed the new profiles? http://www.shacknews.com/profile.x?person=Geedeck

If a game you own isn't listed, the post the name/platform in this thread, or if you just want to share your thoughts on the new shiny-shiny
- trOmblyj
  
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  May 21, 2008 5:48 AM
  
  Yup, love it. Now, where can I cash in all these Shacker points?
  - yuiwork
    
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    May 21, 2008 5:59 AM
    
    what are "shacker points" exactly?
    - ErikTehRed
      
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      May 21, 2008 8:17 AM
      
      I'm sure it's like gamerpoints (ePenis)
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        May 21, 2008 8:17 AM
        
        gamerpoints gamerscore
- SeaLlama
  
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  May 21, 2008 5:49 AM
  
  I didn't see Deus Ex (PC) on there yesterday.
  - SockMonkeh
    
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    May 21, 2008 5:58 AM
    
    It's there, though I'm not sure what category it is in.
    - mn3m0n1c
      
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      May 21, 2008 6:00 AM
      
      It's under RPG, as is DX: I-War.
- smoove
  
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  May 21, 2008 5:51 AM
  
  Is there a way to undo marking games "Completed" or "Done"? I didn't realize until after the fact, that it meant games I actually finished as opposed to, "Yes, I am now done rating my game." :(
  - trOmblyj
    
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    May 21, 2008 5:57 AM
    
    How do you mark a game as completed if you've already given it a rating?
    - smoove
      
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      May 21, 2008 6:02 AM
      
      Are you asking how to do it, or why did I do it?
      
      If it's former, just click "Done" on the right side column. On your Game Library page where it displays your ratings and overall shacker ratings.
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        May 21, 2008 6:05 AM
        
        Doesn't work for me then. Using Firefox 2.0.0.14.
        
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        May 21, 2008 6:18 AM
        
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        May 21, 2008 6:20 AM
        
        Hmm, doesn't work in IE6 for me either.
  - mn3m0n1c
    
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    May 21, 2008 5:59 AM
    
    According to Steve the little green circle is supposed to be clickable, but it hasn't worked for me.
- boring gegtik
  
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  May 21, 2008 5:53 AM
  
  you know what it needs instead of a completed checkbox, maybe a slider bar or dropdown to select 0-100% complete
  - sonicdeathwalrus
    
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    May 21, 2008 5:54 AM
    
    How can you know how far done you are if you haven't finished the game yet?
    - boring gegtik
      
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      May 21, 2008 5:57 AM
      
      it's approximate but I'm sure you can figure out around where you're at in a game.. and if you're wrong, so what
      - sonicdeathwalrus
        
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        May 21, 2008 5:59 AM
        
        I'd put all my games on 51% complete.
- X-GOUKI
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:01 AM
  
  i saw that yesterday at work, its gonna take a while for me to load my list of games on it though, i started with some pc games but i still have a bunch to go
- tomservo
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:03 AM
  
  Are the little thumbnail screenshots subject to change? Are they placeholders for stuff or something?
- MatthewPhillips
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:05 AM
  
  All of the Splinter Cell games (UbiSoft) for the PC (none are listed).
  
  Also can you add the original XBOX and PS2 to the list of platforms?
  Most of my games are for the original XBOX or PS2.
  - MatthewPhillips
    
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    May 21, 2008 6:07 AM
    
    Call of Duty: United Offensive (Expansion Pack) for the PC
    
    Sid Meier's Pirates! for the PC
  - mn3m0n1c
    
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    May 21, 2008 6:18 AM
    
    Splinter Cells are all under PC>Action>Tom Clancy's...
    - MatthewPhillips
      
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      May 21, 2008 6:22 AM
      
      Cool, thanks. Mods can nuke my posts in this thread then (got them all added now thanks)
- Bull
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:07 AM
  
  Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection - Wii
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Hall_of_Fame:_The_Williams_Collection
  
  That's half of my Wii collection right there. :(
- rock elf
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:07 AM
  
  Zuma Deluxe (PC)
  Peggle Extreme (PC) you have regular Peggle but not the Orange Box pack-in
  Bejeweled 1 & 2 (PC)
  
  and possibly other Popcap games, I stopped checking at that point
- [deleted] 347663265
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:12 AM
  
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- mancide
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:13 AM
  
  NINTENDO DS GAMES THAT WERE MISSING AS OF LAST NIGHT
  
  Brain Age 2
  Brain Assist
  Flash Focus
  - dirge23
    
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    May 21, 2008 6:18 AM
    
    Also Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
- [deleted] 328349105
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:14 AM
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:14 AM
  
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- Fredrik S
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:17 AM
  
  PC Games:
  Requiem: Avenging Angel
  Populous: The Beginning
  Sheep
  MDK
  Half Life: Opposing Force
  Evolva
  Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
  Azraels Tears
  DS9: The Fallen
  Ascendancy
  Privateer: The Darkening
  Grand Theft Auto
  Little Big Adventure 1 - 2
  Caesar 1 - 3
  Forsaken
  Sims: Living Large, Hot Date, House Party, Vacation, Unleashed
  Syberia 1, 2
  The Cameron Files
  Starship Titanic
  Atlantis Evolution
  Jack the Ripper
  Runaway
- Totenjaeger
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:26 AM
  
  PSP: Syphon Filter:Logan's Shadow
  PS2: ???
  PC: All the Zork games + other Infocom games
  Wolfenstein 3D (1 & 2) & Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
  Commander Keen(s)
- flagg209
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:30 AM
  
  Are we going to see last generation systems added? If so, how far back are people going to go?
  
  Also - something that doesn't come up here much, but I'd love to know what other arcade coin-op machines my fellow shackers have conquered.
- Nitrium
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:31 AM
  
  Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword for the PC is not there.
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    May 21, 2008 6:36 AM
    
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  - Nitrium
    
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    May 21, 2008 6:36 AM
    
    UH, found it. Sorry.
    
    It's listed as "Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword". But there are "Civilization" games without "Sid Meier's" on front of the name.
    - Altanar
      
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      May 21, 2008 9:40 AM
      
      Yeah, I think that one(those?) officially don't have "Sid Meier's" attached. That was during that whole fiasco as to who owned what and and by whom.
- grifter
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:32 AM
  
  i asked this last night but it got buried pretty quick.
  
  Is the 'Most Wanted' section in the games library going to send us shackmessage reminders when the game is released? If not, it should be an option.
- TwiLyght
  
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  May 21, 2008 6:53 AM
  
  How do you remove games from any of our have/wanted lists?
- Nitrium
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:01 AM
  
  Need more Wing Commander games.
- sesmaster
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:01 AM
  
  Oregon Trail!
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  May 21, 2008 7:07 AM
  
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    May 21, 2008 7:14 AM
    
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  - Phreakin
    
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    May 21, 2008 7:24 AM
    
    yes
- f3ynm
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:21 AM
  
  Flight Simulator X / PC
- red2lucas
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:25 AM
  
  I remember Ajax payed out on me for listing the games I've played and was playing in my profile.
- Altanar
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:27 AM
  
  Pretty spiffy! I do have one suggestion, though. Give us a free redo on game ratings. I accidentally marked the wrong rating on a couple games (mainly because I was getting a 5 second lag between clicking the rating and it showing up).
  - Altanar
    
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    May 21, 2008 7:31 AM
    
    Also, some games that I don't remember seeing that I have (mostly older PC games):
    
    PC / Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
    PC / Space Quest (1 through 5)
    PC / Torin's Passage
    PC / Quest for Glory (1 through 5)
- spiderfill
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:30 AM
  
  Firefox takes 20 seconds every time I rate or check a game completed. Is this happening to anyone else?
  - Altanar
    
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    May 21, 2008 7:31 AM
    
    Yeah.
  - dedgecko
    
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    May 21, 2008 7:32 AM
    
    yea, and then when I closed the browser and went back in to view it, it didn't record any of the completions that I clicked on.
    
    Let me know when this is fixed so that I don't waste another 15 minutes of my life.
- [deleted] 144260682
  
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- dante2010
  
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  May 21, 2008 7:53 AM
  
  Looks the same to me... ??
  - rock elf
    
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    May 21, 2008 8:10 AM
    
    Performing maintenance work on the game library. Check back in 30 minutes.
- breadsticks
  
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  May 21, 2008 8:55 AM
  
  PC: Sierra title series King' Quest, Police Quest and Quest for Glory are missing.
  - eeeealmo
    
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    May 21, 2008 8:56 AM
    
    ^^^^ i was looking for these too (assuming they were under Adventure)
  - AllYourBase
    
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    May 21, 2008 9:43 AM
    
    willy beamish!
- retardhumper
  
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  May 21, 2008 9:46 AM
  
  The old gold box SSI D&D games: Pool of Radience, etc.
- JINKY
  
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  May 21, 2008 9:47 AM
  
  master of orion 3 what the fuck geedeck
  - geedeck
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:25 AM
    
    Look we all made stupid decisions in our youth ok
- helvetica
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:00 AM
  
  For PC / Adventure: The Legend of Kyranida: Fables and Fiends, Kyranida 2: The Hand of Fate, and Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge.
- Awun
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:21 AM
  
  Does not seem to be a way to lower a rating through the game library interface.
- melkore
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:24 AM
  
  I need to keep up with everyone. I was 29th last night and I dropped 5 spots to 34 overnight.
  
  I'm trying to figure out if I missed any more games to boost my rank :)
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- mancide
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:36 AM
  
  LOST: VIA DOMUS XBOX 360 is missing.
  - mancide
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:37 AM
    
    Also Avatar: The Last Airbender 360 version.
    - mancide
      
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      May 21, 2008 10:40 AM
      
      Mad Tracks XBLA
      - mancide
        
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        May 21, 2008 10:41 AM
        
        Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix XBOX 360
        
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        May 21, 2008 10:42 AM
        
        Pirates of the Carrabiean: At World's End XBOX 360
        
        mancide
        
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        May 21, 2008 10:46 AM
        
        3D Ultra Minigolf XBLA
  - dirge23
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:38 AM
    
    i wouldn't say i'm missing it, bob
- Xevo
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:45 AM
  
  Overlord, 360/PC
  - melkore
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:49 AM
    
    I added Overlord last night for 360. It's in Action RPG I think.
- TroZ
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:47 AM
  
  DS: SimCity DS, Kirby Squeak Squad, Worms: Open Warfare 2
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  May 21, 2008 10:49 AM
  
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  - cookblaze
    
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    May 21, 2008 12:05 PM
    
    That's already in there
- riptyde
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:49 AM
  
  Why is my link to the shacklol thing no longer in my profile?
  - helvetica
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:52 AM
    
    If you click your name at the top of this page, it'll show up. It's rather odd.
  - rock elf
    
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    May 21, 2008 10:58 AM
    
    Because the LOL GM script doesn't know about the new fancy URLs for profiles.
- feek
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:49 AM
  
  last time i checked sid meier's railroads! wasnt on there
- dognose
  
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  May 21, 2008 10:55 AM
  
  What are Shacker Points and how did I get those?
  - qu1nton
    
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    May 21, 2008 11:25 AM
    
    They are awarded based on the size of
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  May 21, 2008 11:04 AM
  
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- the stickboy
  
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  May 21, 2008 11:08 AM
  
  In the "waiting for" games list, under PC -> Racing, Race 07 is listed which was released like a year ago. You can add "GTR Evolution" to that category though: http://www.simbin.se/news.php?newsid=120
- Kaerof
  
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  May 21, 2008 11:48 AM
  
  Requiem: Avenging Angel
- dumb.
  
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  May 21, 2008 11:52 AM
  
  Order by name | platform | rating | done
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  May 21, 2008 11:54 AM
  
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  - chodog
    
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    May 21, 2008 12:13 PM
    
    have you tried playing this online? i been wanting to play it online for some time now
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        May 21, 2008 1:34 PM
        
        we should play in the near future.
- fotografico
  
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  May 21, 2008 11:55 AM
  
  maaarteen. if your game lib is empty you get an error:
  
  Warning: mysql_numrows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /data/www/www.shacknews.com/htdocs/include/reviews/gamelist.x on line 128
- cookblaze
  
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  May 21, 2008 11:59 AM
  
  Duck Amuck for the DS!
- vital3d
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:00 PM
  
  The game release dates need to be updated, I mean in mine the next game to be released is MGS4 but it's listed as Q2 2008. Not a specific date like the new Star Wars game is.
- carnivore
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:08 PM
  
  I love the idea, but what is with the design of those boxes? They seem completely inconsistent with the rest of the site's design.
  - Steve Gibson
    
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    May 21, 2008 12:09 PM
    
    they are intentionally ugly. part of being a beta!
    - spaceless
      
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      May 21, 2008 12:26 PM
      
      i cant wait until im out of beta
- Stoned Gargoyle
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:15 PM
  
  Ascendancy - PC, The Carmegeddon sequels for PC.
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    - Stoned Gargoyle
      
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      May 21, 2008 12:37 PM
      
      It is one of my al time favorite games. I would love a sequel or a properly updated, true to the source knock off.
- Stoned Gargoyle
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:38 PM
  
  I love this new feature. Will you guys be adding older consoles and computers (i.e. Atari 2600, C64) to the list?
- project13
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:46 PM
  
  Doesn't seem to list the popcap games for PC: Bejewled, Feeding Frenzy, Astropop, etc.
- rgoer
  
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  May 21, 2008 12:58 PM
  
  I think you should add the handful of Mac-exclusive games from the 80's/90's to the PC section (DarkCastle, The Colony, The Manhole, Marathon trilogy, etc)
  
  Also, a lot of the titles are ambiguous... for the 360, both "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "TMNT" are listed, how do I know which one is the XBLA version of the old arcade game?
- avatar_58
  
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  May 21, 2008 1:07 PM
  
  Some games to add -
  
  Overclocked: A History of Violence - PC - Adventure
  Culpa Innata - PC - Adventure
  Runaway - PC - Adventure
  Runaway 2 - PC - Adventure
  Older Sierra Titles like King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry
  
  In Wanted -
  
  Gray Matter - PC - Adventure
  Still Life 2 - PC Adventure
  The Whispered World - PC - Adventure
  
  Uhh...yeah. I sorta like Adventure games. :o
- Lightbulb
  
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  May 21, 2008 1:08 PM
  
  Mario Party 8 ( Wii )
- Kaerof
  
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  May 21, 2008 1:20 PM
  
  PC Strategy - Close Combat, Close Combat II: A Bridge too Far, Close Combat: Invasion Normandy
  
  PC Racing - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
- gigaduck
  
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  May 21, 2008 1:23 PM
  
  new york times crosswords for ds is missing
- Damodred
  
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  May 21, 2008 1:33 PM
  
  PC: UFO: Afterlight (strategy)
  DS: Shiren the Wanderer (RPG), Rune Factory (RPG), Elevator Action Old&New (Action), Anno 1701 (strategy)
- dantastic
  
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  May 21, 2008 2:16 PM
  
  shadowrun for 360 and pc
  - dantastic
    
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    May 21, 2008 2:19 PM
    
    lost via domus for pc and 360
    - dantastic
      
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      May 21, 2008 2:23 PM
      
      half life: opposing force for pc
      - dantastic
        
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        May 21, 2008 2:29 PM
        
        not current gen either but Sanitarium for PC adventure
        
        dantastic
        
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        May 21, 2008 2:36 PM
        
        ghost master for pc
        
        dantastic
        
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        May 21, 2008 2:39 PM
        
        worms: open warfare 2 for ds
        
        dantastic
        
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        May 21, 2008 3:00 PM
        
        is bioshock 2 only coming out on 360? if not, we're missing it for pc from the wanted list
        
        dantastic
        
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        May 21, 2008 3:07 PM
        
        it's depressing how short the wanted lists are for PSP. i dont think that's your guys' fault unfortunately :(:(
- zakk
  
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  May 21, 2008 2:29 PM
  
  360, Wartech: Senko No Ronde
- silentw
  
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  May 21, 2008 3:32 PM
  
  The game list seems to be pretty bare, especially in terms of single-player console titles...