GameTap Thursday: Insecticide, Freak Out & McGee's Sleeping Beauty

by Xav de Matos { Mar 12th 2009 at 9:40PM }

Another week, another update to GameTap's service. This week three titles have been added as the company preps the service for a major overhaul. This week's offerings continue the Grimm franchise -- with what GameTap old us is the biggest episode in the series -- while introducing new gamers to the world of hard-boiled insect detectives. Yeah, you read that correctly.

Insecticide, Part 1 (Windows) - A "hard-boiled film noir action-adventure game" set a bug-ridden future? Sounds like realism to us, kids.
Freak Out: Extreme Freeride (Windows) - An extreme skiing simulator that combines two of our favorite things, freaking out and the word extreme.
American McGee's Grimm: Sleeping Beauty (Windows) - The continuing episodic adventures of Grimm this time tackling the age-old story of Sleeping Beauty. This one is free to play but only for today! Hop to it!

GameTap has added Just Cause (aka GTA in the Caribbean) to the free to play catalog but will only be free until March 26. Check out a full list of the service's downsized free-to-play titles after the break.

1943: The Battle of Midway
2020 Super Baseball
American McGee's Grimm: A Boy Learns What Fear Is
Baseball Stars 2
Bubble Bobble
Buku Kakuro
Buku Sudoku
BurgerTime
Burnin' Rubber
Bust-A-Move
Capcom Sports Club
CJ's Elephant Antics
Colony 7
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
Defender
Elevator Action
Final Fight
Five Card Deluxe
Futoshiki
Hitman: Codename 47
Ingenious
Joust
Just Cause (Free until March 26)
Karate Champ
The King of Fighters '96
The Last Blade
League Bowling
Liquid Kids
Lunar Rescue
Magical Drop III
Neo Turf Masters
The New Zealand Story
realMYST
Return of the Invaders
Robotron 2084
Root Beer Tapper
Sam & Max Season One Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die
Sensible Soccer
Son Son
Space Invaders
Super Seymour
Super Street Fighter II
Surakarta
Vampire Savior
Vulgus
X2: The Threat
Zoo Empire
Zoo Keeper

Tags: american-mcgees-grimm, extreme-freeride, gametap, gametapthursday, grimm, insecticide

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Markusdragon @ Mar 13th 2009 1:49AM

It's about bloody time that they fixed their licensing and made their service available internationally, because quite frankly I'd be perfectly willing to throw money at them, but they won't let me.

t_m @ Mar 13th 2009 2:51AM

Same here.
they've been saying they are "working on it" for about 2 or 3 years now... but that just seems to mean reducing international availablility and making it harder and harder to access.

Also, time limited free games are annoying. Gametap is a great service for causal gamers (ie, those without enough free time to pick up all the titles full price), but i haven't used it since they made it time limited, cos i know i won't have time to finish it in the 1-2 weeks they give you.