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It's been a very bad year for established game developers with quite a few that have closed their doors and this weekend word got out of yet another possible shut down. Vancouver-based Threewave Software has definitely let go of some of its employees but as Gamasutra reports, their CEO Dan Irish has denied that the company has shut down entirely, saying "Some, not all of our employees were given notices. We are trying to move forward in a manner that reflects today's realities."

Threewave Software was established by a group of team members who first got started in the Quake mod community as they helped to create the popular Threewave Capture the Flag mod. The team then decided to become a professional game developer and while they never made titles on their own they were contracted to do multiplayer maps and mods for a variety of games including Doom III, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Turok and others.

Even in this time of PC games that have huge budgets and massive amounts of team members working on them, the road to completion can be filled with obstacles. While the normal development time for a game from its conception to completion is now running close to three years for a big AAA title there have been some games that have taken even longer to make.

Waiting for a game can be especially hard for fans who are sometimes subject to tons of hands-on previews, screenshots, dev diaries and videos. Fans occasionally have to deal with this sort of thing for years between the announcement of a game and its final shipment to stores. Today Big Download takes a look at 10 games that took quite a while to finish and examines whether the wait was worth it. As a rule we decided to gauge the history of a game's development from the date of its original public announcement to its shipment date (some games on this list were in development before the official announcement).

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We are not sure if you have noticed but today is October 31 and besides being the end of a crappy month for the stock market it's also Halloween which means we can stop being scared about the economy and for one day be scared of zombies, monsters and other imaginary creatures..so we are told.

If you are looking for some free frights this Halloween on your PC, we have some suggestions for you right out of our Big Download grave site. Check out some free demos for some truly scary games that you download and play right now before you go out and get your candy.

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