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Is there a city of hobos in your cellar?

Massively reports: The world's most popular stick-figure meat-trading MMO, Kingdom of Loathing, takes a bold step into history with the release of its new hardcore raid expansion, Hobopolis. Where before, your interactions with other people were limited to trading barbed quips in perfectly formed haiku, or robbing their camps when you felt pretty sure the owners might be away, now you can gather to explore the subterranean metropolis of Hobopolis, the City of Hobos.

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10 fun facts about video game characters

Did you know that Nintendo originally intended Link to travel into a futuristic techno-Hyrule? Here is a collection of facts that you may not know about your favourite characters.

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Free Games What Need Playing: Kingdom of Star Dwarves Edition

CFD!'s Rob Rich starts exploring the array of free games that are worth your time and notice in this new series of features:

"Welcome one and all to another CFD! bi-weekly feature! This here is our new bi-weekly report on free games. Not just free games, but free games that are exceptionally awesome and you need to play. Basically, they’re Free Games What Need Playing.

"Some may be browser-based and others might require a download, but they’re all free and very much worth your time. They won’t all be brand-spanking new, but just because they’ve been floating around the internet for a while doesn’t mean everyone has heard of them before, right? So with that in mind, I present to you this week’s Games What Need Playin"

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Ndigity4935d ago

Well if they're free I guess I don't really have an excuse for not checking them out.

tigresa4935d ago

A new definition for budget gaming...

RobsteinOne4935d ago

Be warned: Dwarf Fortress will kill your social life if you manage to get into it.

ShadowPraxis4935d ago

I just can't get past the code. Can't do it. Cannot see the Matrix for the trees. Sorry.

SynGamer4935d ago

Anyone miss MUDs? I do... *tear*

ShadowPraxis4935d ago

Plenty of them still around.

I just have a bad taste in my mouth about them because of a past deadbeat roommate who spent all of his time mudding rather than looking for a job.

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"A Never Ending Series of Astonishments" Kingdom of Loathing Interview

DIYgamer talks to Kingdom of Loathing creator Zack Johnson to discuss the state of Kingdom of Loathing, its history and the new game Zack and his cohorts are working on.

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BacteriaEP5095d ago

Wow... I remember playing this religiously for like a year and a half. Happy to see it's still around and people are still enjoying it. Perhaps it's time for a second dip.