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There was no big features this week, unfortunately. Most of our staff was gone at E3, after all! Just Freeware Friday was this week. However, the TOJam 2008 competition recently wrapped up, so there's a ton of games that were released this week! Dwarf Fortress also finally got the first update in the Army Arc, adding battles and wars to the historical records of the game.

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Freeware Friday: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari James Murff takes Freeware Friday to a new place: browser games.

There's some experimental games that utilize a concept that is completely unworkable. Deaths is not one of those games. Featuring a very simple concept and gameplay, it could be far more amazing with better execution. At the moment, it is merely good. A platformer, the entire concept revolves around displaying recent deaths from players around the world. Not only that, but the bodies actually affect the environment, as you can walk on them. The game even accounts for this in design in the later levels, requiring there to be bodies to jump to a higher platform. There's nothing else to the game, and it's only a short 6 levels, but it's a great proof-of-concept that Jesse Venbrux may use in later games.

[Via IndieGames]