GameTap hitting 1000 games and upcoming info
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Oct 20th 2007 at 12:15PM }
There were quite a few press releases from GameTap this week so we figured we'd roll it into one post. The basic news is that GameTap, Turner Broadcasting System's "broadband entertainment network" -- we prefer to just call it a gaming smorgasbord -- will hit 1000 games available to subscribers on Nov. 15. If you're a weekly reader of our GameTap Thursday posts you know there's definitely a strong hit or miss quotient to those titles, but the point is that there are still 1000 available games to subscribers on-demand. A good portion of the games are new titles, while a majority are classic games you can't normally play without dragging out the old consoles from mom and/or dad's attic. GameTap also keeps a pretty solid list of free games available for non-subscribers as well (which we always list on our GameTap Thursday posts also). Now let's get to the info dumping ...- Clive Barker's Jericho is available Tuesday for GameTap subscribers. Keep an eye on Codemasters games because this will become standard ops. due to the GameTap/Codemasters deal from July.
- Sam & Max season two starts Nov. 8 with Ice Station Santa. Season one's episode Abe Lincoln Must Die! is available for free now.
- Myst URU Online's final episode in the season one story arc begins Nov. 1.
- The first three Hitman games will be free to play for non-subscribers on GameTap coinciding with the November release of the movie.
- A new season of the Re\Visioned series starts soon, which previously took a fresh look at Lara Croft. There's no announcement on who the character is for the new series yet.
- GameTap is also getting into GameTrailers' retrospective (which we love) territory with looks at Hitman, Command & Conquer, Sonic and NiGHTS.
Update: There's typically a lot of questions regarding controllers for GameTap. Just because it's a PC-based service doesn't mean you have to use a mouse and keyboard. Here's a link to "officially" supported controllers (including the Xbox 360 controller) and you can map out the buttons however you want.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve @ Oct 20th 2007 12:43PM
If you're a Sega fan, Gametap is much better than Virtual Console, since it already has virtually all the Genesis games and a lot of Master System games as well. But of course it doesn't have any Turbografx games (everybody always forgets those). Plus I still just haven't gotten used to playing console games on PC.
ck @ Oct 20th 2007 1:11PM
I can't say enough how awesome this service is. And it keeps getting better. I have an older system, but I can still run most games on the service (maybe not Jericho). But for only 9.95 every month? And on top of that, the media content is pretty good - you can watch most of the Sam & Max Saturday morning cartoons and a host of other shows along with original content. Why wouldn't you get this service? There's enough games to keep people busy for years already. I just hope they put out more old school adventure games - too bad LucasArts won't give their rights away...
Derrick @ Oct 20th 2007 1:24PM
I just wish it had a better interface. It's easier for me to pirate most of these games than it is to play them through the GameTap service.
Eric @ Oct 20th 2007 1:47PM
Have they revamped their interface yet? Or given the option for just a straight text menu driven interface? I tried it, and I hated that spinning, pseudo 3D crap.
Sokkratez @ Oct 20th 2007 7:42PM
Exciting stuff. Really appreciate your guys' keeping up with GameTap developments.
boostedwrx @ Oct 21st 2007 1:41AM
Yawn, let me know when they officially add x64 support.
Fatbot @ Oct 21st 2007 1:42AM
Yeah, GameTap updated the client and I heard they are planning a much bigger revamp with a much better interface soon. CAG posted that they have a 60 dollar a year plan that could be limited so I jumped and playing Mark of the Wolves online is definitely worth 5 bucks a month.