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    Say Goodbye To FileFront

    Maggie Has Left the Tower

    Farewell, VH1 Game Break

    A Farewell To Weekends

    Goodbye, TGS
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    Image of Tyber_Zann Tyber_Zann
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Fuck you, Fileplanet. It's all your fault. You may as well have sex with Games for Windows Live and just monopolize everything.
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    Image of dsi1 dsi1
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Why do all the good sites die...
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    Image of Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?! Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!
    03/25/09

    @dsi1: and the terrible sites just go on and on. It's tragic.
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    Image of homernoy homernoy
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Complete bummer. I am having a hard time believing this is really happening.
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    Image of sudo rm reality.exe sudo rm reality.exe
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Damn. DAMN. This was always a good alternative and a nice place to find filey stuff for games.


    Fuck, seriously.

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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    03/26/09

    @HikariOblivion:

    Yeah. Beyond gamespy, and a couple of other sites, filefront was really one of the best - and usually fastest - source for... Well, everything!


    Sad to see them close up. :(

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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    This is worse than the EGM closing... Fuck!


    FileFront was amazing.

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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    03/25/09

    @ShaggE: Wait... with this timing, they'd be able to close for a day, and show up again on April 1st with a huge "Gotcha!"... right?


    Right!?


    ...Bah... :(

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    Image of homernoy homernoy
    03/25/09

    @ShaggE: Yeah, that's what I was hoping. With no account needed and direct downloads it was my favorite site for demos. I guess I will go through Steam to get most of them now. At least for the few they do offer.
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    Image of Blyr Blyr
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    ..I think I'm gonna cry.


    :'(....

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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    @Blyr is playing PS:P: it's ok to cry...we'll just have to find a different site to store it's audio data on.... *crys*
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Oh no.... This is the wrong thing to post on teh intranets! do you know what you have just done!? Billions of hackers and gamers alike will be ripping that site along with all of it's associate sites to shreds. this is beyond anything we've seen before.... it may very well lead to...the end of the internet...via kotakuing to death.
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    Image of aw3str1k3r aw3str1k3r
    03/25/09

    @LllusionX:Cooking grenades for the Helghast: Thanks for reminding me that Kotaku should get a counter to keep track of how many servers crash from Kotaku traffic.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Yahoo! just closed Briefcase down as well, citing that the paltry 30 MB was outclassed by e-mail, but I suspect the cost of maintaining it must have factored into the decision as well. Everyone is cost cutting these days.
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    Image of Andrew Alexandrescu Andrew Alexandrescu
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    i have no idea what this is but i already miss it :(
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    @Andrew Alexandrescu: i've been there before a couple times to play the demo for this game called "Penumbra Overature". it looks like an epic PC game and I think it plays similarly to Half Life 2, but the problem is, my computer couldnt play it at more than 2 FPS, because my PC is not built for stuff like that. >:(
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    Image of Ehardergardens Ehardergardens
    03/25/09

    @LllusionX:Cooking grenades for the Helghast: ??? Penumbra overture has very low system specs, what problem are you having if you can play half life2???? it's not like half life though... it's a first person survival horror, more emphasis on puzzles and stealth... the first one has a bit of (frustrating) combat but the second one the combat was removed.. it's one of the best horror games I've ever played... it's obviously not a big budget title, and has a much smaller scale of gameplay, but what it does well(atmosphere, voice-acting, story telling, puzzles) is something more games could learn from. Scary as hell to play at night.
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    @Ehardergardens: I have half life 2 for the PS3, and i tried out penumbra overature and i thought it was similar. but regardless of how low it's system specs may be, my computer is only made for simple games like blockland and flash games.
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    Image of Char Aznable Char Aznable
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Snap.


    I never liked Filefront anyway...

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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    @interim: And we never heard from interim again. I hear he was chased off by a bunch of angry pirates.
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    Image of Roufuss Roufuss
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    Horrible news.


    Filefront was one of the fastest, best places to download demo's and patches... and it was completely free, unlike Fileplanet, who makes you jump through hoops to download stuff.


    You will be missed, Filefront :(

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    Image of Acorn Pop Acorn Pop
    03/25/09

    @Roufuss: And that is why they closed down and Fileplanet has not.
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    Image of Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    And there was a sound like a million PC gamers crying out in anguish, and then silence.
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    Image of LllusionX Mailed the Fission LllusionX Mailed the Fission
    03/25/09

    @Mister Jack Won a Copy of Matt Hazard!: And lllusion x said, "let there be funk." and there was a huge nerd party that ensued world wide and he ordered that moar bitches needed to get involved.
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    Image of DeadDuck DeadDuck
    03/25/09

    @Mister Jack Won a Copy of Matt Hazard!:


    That's MY line.

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    Image of Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
    03/25/09

    @DeadDuck: I'll fight you for it.
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    Image of PimpNinja24 PimpNinja24
    03/25/09

    In reply to Say Goodbye To FileFront
    The first site I used to get demos. You will indeed be missed.
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    Image of UltimatePancakeSensation UltimatePancakeSensation
    12/16/08

    In reply to Maggie Has Left the Tower
    I'll miss your rare and intelligent posts. You are the witty Felix Unger to this site's general Oscar...whats-his-name.
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    Image of svetlana svetlana
    12/15/08

    In reply to Maggie Has Left the Tower
    Good luck and take care! Try to have lunch with Ellis Krauss sometime; he is a riot and piercingly informative, though he may become somewhat more dodgy for those within his own community. I always was intrigued by the depth of your articles and will feel their lack. Best wishes to you!
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