Iji information has been added below, continue to the full article to check it out.  The game is being offered by download for free at Daniel’s Base – Iji.

Iji is like any other game. You’re the only hope in an apocalyptic world, there are aliens taking over, and you are the only one who can stop them. You’ve got shotguns, reflectors, lasers, etc and the enemies do too. But this game is not simple, because of the love poured into it by Daniel Remar. This ordinary game has been modeled into a complete masterpiece, full of character, detail, and outstanding gameplay.

On a visit to her father’s workplace, a research facility, the alien race of the Tasen bomb the entire planet, save for the facility which is now a base of operations. 3 doctors hole up and reverse engineer the alien’s nanotechnology to create a unstable but operational cyborg. The doctors are killed, and the weight of the literal world is placed on Iji. Now she must find out how she can get the Tasen to leave, fight political corruption, and deal with the burden of being a convict or a mass-murderer.

Without going into more plot, it must be said that the characters are truly realistic and suffer from many footfalls humans do. The writing is fantastic, the plot is engaging, and it has terrific back-story that is incredibly intricate. By reading Logbooks of all the aliens, you can piece together many things. Past events, fears, even alien soccer.

Daniel makes great use of a palate, changing the colors of each level to reflect the mood appropriately. Though the backgrounds are mainly a washed-out blue, a simple look around the room reveals many details- overturned chairs, bloody walls, cracks and distortion, yet if that’s not your thing it’s also very easy to continue on and tune them out, since they have a nice blending effect with the wall.

The gameplay is fluid, fast paced, and easy to get into. You have many stats, all of which can be upgraded with spare nano you can find by killing enemies or searching the level. There are 8 main weapons, 4 for each race, and they can be combined to make a total of 16 weapons. Not to mention that there are 3 secret weapons, however, making it a grand total of 19.

While there are boring weapons such as the shotgun or machine gun, there are many fun ones as well, such as MPFB devastator, Shocksplinter, and Resonance Detonator, making gameplay very interesting.

If you ever consider killing your enemies immoral, you can always take the high road. Iji features a pacifist mode where you can go through the game without hurting a fly. It changes the dialogue significantly and has a impact on the ending, along with another in-game event.

It’s very, very hard to find a video game that is so decisively simple, yet has such depth and love put into it as Iji. Iji has all the important parts of a good game down: It’s fun, simple, and it truly molds to fit your play style. It is a game not for Action fans, not for the casual, but for everyone. Do everyone in the world a favor and download it from Daniel’s site, and start playing it now. It’s free, nonprofit, and takes up miniscule space. No installation necessary!

Daniel’s Base – Iji – Download

Ever wanted to play your favorite PC games in 3D?  Well NVIDIA has got the closest thing with there GeForce 3D Vision.

Overview

• $199
• 3D PC gaming, and movies
• Wireless glasses
• You can find the official link here

Continue reading to find out more.

All you need is to buy the kit, which includes the software needed and the “Stylish glasses”. The only downfall is that there are number of very specific requirments. That can set you back more than the $199.

The Minimum software requirements are.

• Microsoft® Windows® Vista 32/64-bit or Windows 7 32/64-bit
• Intel® Core™2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2 CPU or higher
• 1GB of system memory. (2GB is recommended)
• 100 MB free disk space

And the software is only compatible with the following Desktop Displays, TV’s and Projecters

• Desktop Displays
  • Samsung® SyncMaster 2233RZ 120 Hz LCD display
  • ViewSonic® FuHzion™ VX2265wm 120 Hz LCD display
  • 100 Hz and higher analog CRTs
• HDTVs
  • Mitsubishi® 1080p DLP® Home Theater TV: WD-57833, WD-60735, WD-60737, WD-60C8, WD-60C9, WD-65735, WD-65736, WD-65737, WD-65C8, WD-65C9, WD-65833, WD-65835, WD-65837, WD-73735, WD-73736, WD-73737, WD-73833, WD-73835, WD-73837, WD-73C8, WD-73C9, WD-82737, WD-82837, L65-A90
  • Generic DLP HDTV mode
• Projectors
  • DepthQ® HD 3D Projector by LightSpeed Design, Inc.
  • DQ-3120 by LightSpeed Design, Inc.

The full required specifications can be found here.

So how does it work?

Normally 3D has been done one of either two ways, the good old red and blue glasses that you used to wear at the movies. What the red and blue glasses do is filter out some of the color  so as to make both of your eyes focus on different layers of the film, and this creates the illusion of 3D. The more modern glasses that are used now are polarized, and instead of filtering out the colors the glasses filter for example, the left glass will filter out everything but vertical light waves, and the right everything but the horizontal light waves making you focus on the two layers of the film.

However, what the 3D vision glasses use is not a brand new technology, but it is definitely better than the previous two ways. The glasses utilize rapid shutter lenses that shut off each eye rapidly there is a thin LCD coating of the lenses that either turn black or clear, and rapidly change every millisecond and syncs to the monitor being used. What this does is makes both of your eyes  focus at different times which creates a depth of field.

The technology can only be used on specific games some better than others a full list of the games can be found here

I personally can not wait to get my hands on a pair of these glasses, just imagine play Nazi Zombies in Call of Duty: World at War in 3D.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Most people don’t pay attention to the game world while they play a very entertaining game. In games like SimCity, and Spore the world is essential. You even create the world and all who inhabit it in Spore. But what about those large Role Playing Games like Elder Scrolls I-IV, and Fallout 1, 2, and 3? What about their worlds? And what about Action and Adventure games like Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto 1-4, and Mercenaries 1&2 and their worlds? And let’s not forget those few 1st Person Shooters that catch our hearts, like Half-Life.

Read on for more information and the list of games.

Well, most people take the environment of the game that they are playing for granted. If a person was playing Grand Theft Auto IV and the people had no emotion in their voices, all looked the same, and never really did anything would it be as fun to massacre them? If the traffic lights just stayed green, would it be fun to weave in and out of cars? If the weather was always the same, if you couldn’t change your clothes, take girlfriends on dates, go get drunk and scream “YELLOW CAR!,” if you couldn’t highjack a sports car, if you couldn’t call 9-1-1 for a fire truck then kill the driver and jack it, if you couldn’t hold off the S.W.A.T. team with an M4 Assault rifle while using a hotdog stand for cover would the game be as fun as it is?

In Oblivion you can create your own character, and every single character model in the game – which is massively huge – has their own face. Oblivion was the very starting point for games like Fallout 3, which has surpassed all expectations and gotten 10-10s and 5-5s.  The world of gaming is only matched by how realistic the world feels to you. Now, if we were to list the top five most believable game worlds, I think they’d be in this order:

1. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) – for its perfect duplication of New York City, from everything to the busy Time Square, to the gangster infested slums. Not only this, but its graphics have been boosted 100 fold, and the game runs and looks beautiful.

Not only that, but the voice acting is incredible. Like in Dead Space, when you watch the short cutscenes you feel like you are watching a real movie. With the Mafia, Irish Mob, Russian Gangsters, “G” Gangsters, Junkies, and crazy cops this game is the perfect example of the real “American Dream.” Well, slightly, we all know that things are exaggerated with the violence.

The realism in this game is great, people will walk around, some will be yelling on cellular phones, some drinking coffee and watching the birds. There are people jogging in the park, listening to their iPod while walking to work, groups of people doing Pilates, people eating a picinic. There are old women driving aggravatingly slowly on the freeway, there are police chasing a robber, or handcuffing an offender. There are people watching comedians, strip clubs, movies, resturaunts, boat trips, and hundreds of “flying rats” (pidgeons) to explode into a puff of blood and feathers.

Traffic changes depending on what time of day it is. People are getting mugged in the alley way, texting and walking aimlessly, only to end up bumping into you. People will even start to fight with you if you accidently run into them. You could take out your assault rifle and hold everyone captive at a local fast food joint. You can systimatically take out targets for an unknown person. You can kidnap an Italian Mafia man’s daughter. There’s all sorts of stuff to do, ranging from acting as a bounty hunter, to taking care of boyfriends or giving people rides to their homes. The game is so large, it makes my head spin.

2. Fallout 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) – for its horrifically accurate and creative post apocalyptic scene, the immense voice actors, the 100% explorable world, the many ruins, weapons, armour, and incredible sound and visual effects. Not to mention – can you guess it? – V.A.T.S.

Fallout 3, the sequal to the sequal of the amazing, original Role Playing Game is a 100% improvement.  The graphics capture the pure emptiness of the desolite post apocalyptic wasteland. Every little detail in a person’s face is different; from the lines on an old man’s forhead, to the lush lips of a young woman, talking to a man in a tattered and blood spattered pink floral dress. There are a boat load of new weapons, items, sepcial items, and apparal to be found, and worn.

One of my most favourite things in Fallout 3 is your Pip-Boy’s radio. Listening to Three Dawg cracking jokes and playing old 50’s and 60’s music, exploring the vast waste land, busting some ghoul heads with your Chinese Assault Rifle. Or you could attack the entire city of Megaton. You could even nuke the entire city of Megaton! The possibilities are endless!

There goes Megaton >:D

3. Spore (PC) – Spore is unlike any other game. Not only do you create your enemies and your playable characters; but you create the entire world you live in. The trees, the ponds, the random small animals, the sky (from what I have heard) and pretty much everything else.

4. The Sims (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) – Sims games have been known for its [almost] realistic feel, cartoonish look, and somewhat crude humor. You can do pretty much anything in newer Sims games, you can set your house on fire while cooking dinner, you can set your car on fire while cooking dinner, you can accidently fall into the pool and drown, you can have an extra terrestrial as your next door neighbor, and let’s not forget the best part: you can get it on while on a fur rug next to a romantic fireplace, only to burst into flames yourself!

5. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)– For its perfect nerd utopia and it’s extremely high playability. I myself have well over 400 hours on the game, along with every expansion made so far. Oblivion is, still today, probably the largest game ever made. With its massive amount of quests, extremely fun glitches, and many easter eggs, Oblivion is a game I’d suggest you buy. Right now. Go to your closest game store and buy the Game of the Year Addition.

All of these games are more than worth buying, and I own every single one. If you have a life, do not buy these games, because you will be sucked into the world and begin to believe you live in it. If you have time, however, these games are the best games I have ever played. I also suggest Half Life, which can be got with The Orange Box (PS3, Xbox 360, or separately on the PC), it comes with Half Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal, and finally Team Fortress two.

The Settlers II is a classic in my opinion. When this free Gold Edition came out I played it, but a lot of people ended up being unable to track it down on the internet. Even out of those that managed to find a copy on the internet found it difficult, if not impossible to get it to work on their system. If you already know about the game and you enjoyed it you should try and find a copy of “The Settlers II: 10th Anniversary” which is basically a 3D version of the Gold Edition with all the features you loved, Multiplayer, and a small expansion as far as controlling your military and soldiers go. (if you’ve played you know how frustrating that was) In the gallery of this post I have included some pictures from both games.

Continue Reading for the Download and Guide to get the game working.

Here is the DOWNLOAD for those of you who had trouble finding it. Just click “Get it.” on that page.

Now the tricky part is getting it to run. For XP users its easy all you need to do is change the compatibility mode of the s2.exe file included in the download to Windows 95 which is done by right clicking the file and going to the properties. You’ll see it.

For Vista users it is another story. The only way I have been able to run it is using DosBox which is basically an emulator for old computer games that could only run in Dos. You can get that DOWNLOAD here.

After installing Dosbox it can be a little tricky so I will walk you through it to make it simple. First off take the folder you got from downloading Settlers II (After you unzip it) and put it in a folder called Games right on your C drive. Your C drive is found under My Computer and it is where your Program Files folder is at. Name it something short like sett2.  The path to the exe file that runs the game should be something like C:/Games/sett2/s2.exe. Now open DosBox and follow these directions

• Install
• Open DosBox from your Desktop (You will see a black command box looking thing)
• type “mount c c:/Games”
• type “c:”
• type “cd sett2″
• type “s2.exe”

Now remember if you didn’t put the Settlers 2 game folder in the spot I refered to then this wont work, and also if you didnt name it sett2 you will have to use your head to figure out what you need to type. Keep it under 8 characters or DosBox will be a pain about getting in the directory (cd.)  Also, if you have show extentions turned off on your computers explorer windows the fies will not have extentions.  For example “s2.exe” would show as just “s2″

If you have any questions or problems leave a comment and try and explain what happened and where your issue is (the more detailed the easier I will be able to try and help you.)