ARCA Sim Racing

ARCA Sim Racing, or ASR for short, is a computer racing simulator that is still in development. It uses a similar coding to ISI's rFactor and is set to release from late February to early March. Pre-ordering is currently available. Sim Factory will host a lottery where a winner will be drawn from a list of people who pre-ordered the game. The winner of the lottery will recieve a Logitech G25 steering wheel combo cockpit package with $2599.00. The game has partnered up with many companies such as NRT Game Servers[3] to help the game's development and financial needs. Upon the game's release 10 ARCA tracks will be available, however more tracks will be available via addons.

MAG (computer game)

Mike's Adventure Game (MAG) is a roguelike computer game. The object of the game is to delve down into an ancient dungeon and return to the surface with the Sudbury Sapphire. The original version was completed at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1985 by Mike Teixeira. The IBM PC version was completed in 1988. MAG was originally written between 1982-1985 to run on a DEC PDP 11/70 running Unix. At the same school, Jay Fenlason had just finished up his game, Hack, predecessor to NetHack. The color IBM PC version was written between 1986-1988 while Teixeira was studying at Northeastern University in Boston. Both the source code and game of MAG are available online as freeware.

The adventurer is controlled by the use of the keyboard: 'w' equips a weapon, 'i' displays the inventory, etc. All characters, items, and monsters are represented by textual characters. Monsters are represented by colored letters. For example, dark elves are represented by a dark blue 'e', and lizardmen are a light blue 'l'. Level maps are randomly generated as they are encountered, sometimes resulting in dead ends that effectively end a gaming session.

UltraRogue

While Rogue features twenty-six monster types and the goal of the finding the Amulet of Yendor, UltraRogue has hundreds of monster types and eight game-winning artifacts. Unlike Rogue, UltraRogue requires the player to choose from among character classes inspired by Dungeons & Dragons: fighter, cleric, magic-user, or thief.

In both games, the dungeon does not formally end, and the player can continue to explore after obtaining a winning artifact, facing monsters of growing strength. In UltraRogue, after retrieving a winning artifact and returning to the dugeon's first level, Lucifer will confront the player. While he can be defeated in combat, players may also run past him to win the game.

Herb Chong did not distribute the source to UltraRogue, though he did permit a few developers to contribute directly to the game. Its development spanned over eleven years, from December 1984 to early 1995. The Roguelike Restoration Project, an effort to port old roguelike games to current computing platforms, later revived development.

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5: Wii is to be released on the Wii platform after Nintendo announces new updates for Wii will make greater graphical changes to the recent version 3.0. CAPCOM have announced that the game will only be released if the original RE5 will be released before June 2008. A demo trailer for the game should be broadcast before the 1st of January 2008.

Flash Trek 2

Flash Trek 2: Broken Mirror is an online browser-based computer game set in the Star Trek universe created by someone known as Vex Xiang. It is actually set in the Mirror Universe, a parallel universe depicted in several Star Trek episodes. It simulates operation of a variety of starships from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Players can buy and sell items, attack enemies, and build resources on planets, as well as create empires of their own. Players can select different races to play as or play as an independent. It is programed in the Flash computer language.

Players begin with a small ship called a "runabout" or scout. They accumulate money by performing various trade missions or raiding ships. Once they have accumulated money, known as "latinum," they can purchase new ships, or weapons and other tools.

Eventually players can build up prestige and use it to take over planets. However, this only works with planets that have no enemies. Buying a ship requires the player to have a certain amount of prestige in the system in which the ship is offered for purchase. The larger the ship, the more prestige is required.

This game has a level of complexity and sophistication which is unusual for most browser-based games or flash games. It creates a game setting containing multiple star systems with planets and other features, and offers a wide range of ship functions and systems, as well as player interactions. In this respect, it harkens back to the earliest Star Trek starship computer games, which often achieved a depth previously unseen for the different platforms which they appeared on, including mainframes and various PC operating systems.

Flash Trek 2 is the sequel to Flash Trek which is a game also depicting a starship in the Star Trek universe, though with less game features and a simpler interface.

Flash Trek 2 is the latest in a line of Flashtrek games as follows:

* Flashtrek
* Flash Trek: Assault
* Flash Trek: Romulan Wars
* Flash Wars - game set in Star Wars universe, with many similarities.

Global Mafia

The Global Mafia is an online text-based game. It revolves around the mafia/gang world. You can commit crimes, steal cars and even perform extortions. Other actions that can be performed include smuggling various items (drugs, booze and cigarettes etc.), murdering other players, placing other players on a hitlist, performing bank robberies and trying to outrun the cops. As of 29 October 2007 the game is still in it's beta phase. It's constantly being updated with new actions and mini-games.