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		<title>Cool Game Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, in the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a couple really cool gaming companies that I&#8217;d like to share. 1) 2D Boy Games. Perhaps you&#8217;ve not heard of this company specifically but I&#8217;ve no doubt many of you have heard of their signature game: World of Goo. If you haven&#8217;t tried this game yet, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, in the past couple weeks, I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a couple really cool gaming companies that I&#8217;d like to share.</p>
<hr />1) <a href="http://2dboy.com/" target="_blank">2D Boy Games</a>. Perhaps you&#8217;ve not heard of this company specifically but I&#8217;ve no doubt many of you have heard of their signature game: <a href="http://www.worldofgoo.com/" target="_blank">World of Goo</a>.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried this game yet, you should without doubt, download the demo and give it a&#8230; goo.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t really a serious game for &#8216;hardcore gamers&#8217; but it&#8217;s quite addictive and a nice distraction if you just have 5 minutes here or there.</p>
<p>What makes this company so cool though? Here&#8217;s the goods. Not only can you buy this game through Steam for a very fair price, but if you spend the $20 and buy the game through 2D Boy&#8217;s website you get a fantastic deal.</p>
<p>- No DRM? <strong>Check</strong> (for those who don&#8217;t know, DRM is software &#8216;protection&#8217; which prevents you from installing the game on as many computers as you want in order to &#8216;prevent piracy&#8217;)</p>
<p>- Available for platforms OTHER THAN WINDOWS? <strong>CHECK!</strong> &#8211; That&#8217;s right, not only can you install this game on all your computers&#8230; you can actually INSTALL THIS GAME ON ALL YOUR COMPUTERS. Currently, 2D Boy has downloads available for <strong>Windows, Apple OSX and Linux!</strong></p>
<p>2) <a href="http://gog.com/" target="_blank">GOG.com</a>. GOG.com stands for Good Old Games. These guys aren&#8217;t exactly a game company so much as a game distribution company. And the games you find here are not cutting edge today&#8230; but they probably were at one time! These guys have a ton of games from the past and have updated them so that they easily install and run on Windows XP and Vista.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s so cool about these guys? Let&#8217;s take a look.</p>
<p>- No DRM? <strong>Check</strong> &#8211; again, another gaming company that doesn&#8217;t treat its customers like criminals.</p>
<p>- Good Prices? <strong>Check</strong> &#8211; although it does take a credit card, you won&#8217;t need unlimited credit for these guys! Some games are as cheap as $5.99 (Fallout, Fallout 2 for example) and most of the games are only $9.99. Like Steam, these guys usually have weekend sales also.</p>
<p>- Good selection? <strong>Check</strong> &#8211; Gog.com has a great selection of games! at the time of me writing this, there were more than 80 games for sale.</p>
<hr />So, if you&#8217;re looking for some cool games and don&#8217;t want to spend a lot of money, check out both of these choices and help support gaming companies that actually don&#8217;t hate their customers!</p>
<p>If you have any other companies or sites that are similar to this, please reply and let us know who they are!</p>
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