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The DRM-free web site GoG.com has added another classic game to its library of titles. The latest entry is One Unit Whole Blood, a collection of the 1997 first person shooter Blood with its expansion packs Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage. The game was originally under development by 3D Realms but then the game was passed onto Monolith Productions in what became their first game. The developer later on went to make acclaimed PC titles like No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R.

If you want some entertaining, funny, gory and even scary fun, the Blood collection might be right up your alley. You can get the game now at GoG.com for just $5.99.

After nearly two weeks of rumors and a lawsuit against the company by publisher Take Two Interactive, Duke Nukem Forever's development studio 3D Realms has finally sent out an official response to the shut down of development for the long awaited first person shooter. Big Download received a press release via email from 3D Realms in which they state while they indeed let the Duke Nukem Forever development team go on May 6, "3D Realms (3DR) has not closed and is not closing." Even though their last news post on their official web site does indeed say "Goodbye" today's statement says they are still in operation as a smaller development studio and are still working on co-developing and licensing the Duke Nukem IP for new games.

Their statement says that 3D Realms has only received a $2.5 million payment from Take Two Interactive in July 2008 "in connection with another agreement for an unannounced game." 3D Realms claims they did not receive a $12 million payment from Take Two in 2000 as Take Two claims in last week's lawsuit. In fact that $12 million went to GT Interactive "to acquire the publishing rights for the DNF game." 3D Realms claims that aside from $400,000 from GT Interactive in 1998 and the 2008 money from Take Two they have receive no other funds from publishers for Duke Nukem Forever. They also claim to have spend a total of $20 million to develop Duke Nukem Forever.

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

There's a few RTS games that are considered to be true classics of the genre. Dune 2, Starcraft, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, and Homeworld are all considered to be classics. And so is Chris Taylor's first game, the incredible Total Annihilation. With more units per side than any RTS had even dared to try, massive battles that took place in 3D environments, and a system that relied on real-world concepts such as physics and intel rather than dice-rolling, Total Annihilation blew our minds away with its complete departure from the norm. Even with Supreme Commander, its spiritual successor, on the market and an open-source remake called Spring on the internet, Total Annihilation is still as fun and innovative now as it was in 1997.