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This week introduces yet another GameTap Indies game, Outpost Kaloki - a quirky space station tycoon game I can’t wait to have the time try out (remember, we IAs are quite the busy-niks as of late). And I gotta say I’m crazy excited about the upcoming Monday Leaderboard Tournament: Pac-Man! As a game I could not possibly resist as a kid (WAY too many quarters spent at the Zippy Mart after school), look for me to make the top ten this week**!

New Gold games:

• Outpost Kaloki
• Five Card Deluxe

New free game:

• Battle of Europe

**At 6am before anyone else can post a score.

Crank open the ‘Tap this week for the Doom3-a-licioius Alpha Prime, the Bust-a-Bejeweled-Move-a-licious Chameleon Gems, and the letter-flippin-tastic Flip Words 2.

But, wait … there’s more! Be sure to check out the new GameTap Indies page, along with TheRedEye’s comprehensive GameTap Indies Discussion Thread which is chock full of factoids about the games and their developers (and don’t forget to subscribe to his GameTap Indies playlist!). We’re even offering up one of our indie games for free this week: Morning’s Wrath.

New Gold games:

• Alpha Prime
• Chameleon Gems
• Flip Words 2

New free game:

• Morning’s Wrath

Yes, we have some new games this week. And yes, I cracked open the RIP Trilogy for some quick, instant gratification shooter action. But then yesterday’s WTF Wednesday happened. ROM Raiders. Now I’m back in Pyramid Magic land for the first time in over a year. End of level jumping jacks! End of level jumping jacks!

(p.s. Anyone else have the urge to Barry Manilow up Culpa Innata? “Adventure and action were always the fashion…”)

New Gold games week:

• RIP Trilogy
  
• Legendo’s The Three Musketeers
  
• Culpa Innata
  

New free game:

• Buku Kakuro

GameTap celebrates Earth Day this week (well, not really) with the release of Great Journey: Mr. Penguin’s Letter™ in which you’re tasked to stop a no-good-nick polluter from trashing Antarctica. If that’s too politically correct for you, there’s Dark Star One, where your starship is … ALIVE!!!

New Gold games:

• Dark Star One
• Great Journey: Mr. Penguin’s Letter™

New free game:

• Super Street Fighter® II: The New Challengers

I can’t lie, Giovanni was onto something last week when he speculated that things were busy here at the office. He’s right. Keep in mind that the lead time on most things the IAs work on is typically pretty huge. But we’re on some cool stuff right now. Unfortunately there’s way too much work to do much more than attempt to participate in the rolling avalanche that is the Monday Leaderboard Tournament (Root Beer Tapper’s up next!).

New Gold games:

• Alien Shooter Vengeance
• Dark Matter
• Dracula Twins
  

New free game:

• X2: The Threat

Whoah, whoah. (<-- You try typing Tom Jones out. Not easy.)

New Gold games:

• Ice Land 2
• Sam & Max Season Two: Episode 5: What’s New, Beelzebub?
• Tank Battalion
• Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

New free games:

• Fastlane Pinball
• King of Monsters 2