A quick note to point you towards a game that a friend of mine made. I'm not able to be unbiased about this one, since I've been following the development of this turn-based strategy war game for years. I'm very happy that Empires of Steel has shipped and I wanted to spread the word a bit. Congrats, Brit!

Empires of Steel is a turn-based wargame where you "form alliances, capture and trade resources, research new technologies, and form huge invasion fleets to conquer your opponents." The game can be played in single or multi-player modes with voice chat and can be extended by customizing your own maps, scenarios and rule sets using the extensive editor. It's really a lot of fun and has some great depth. Any strategy wargamer should give it a shot -- there's a demo available, so you have no excuses. There have been a slew of updates to the game through the slick update system, so it's been actively supported since launch.

Here's an Empires of Steel Preview at GameSquad that talked about the game back when its launch was announced.

I don't have much more to say at the moment, but I really wanted to pop down these links. Check it out and support your friendly neighborhood indie game developers like Atomicboy Software!! :)

Whew! Another round of big changes are finally done! (Actually, they're not really completed, but they're at a "good enough for the moment" stage.)

I've changed the way games are displayed and I really hope you players either like it, or are understanding about why I'm doing it this way! It's not likely to please everyone, but I've done a LOT of thinking about this stuff and I think I've come up with a good balance between functionality, content & commercialism -- yeah, I need to make money off these sites, so I need to put advertisements up. Without the ad revenue, I'm not able to put in this much time to make the site nice for you folks... please bear with me on that front.

So, the main changes you'll notice today is a new "landing page" for each game! Instead of seeing the game loaded up right away, I've gathered various bits of info for each game on that page. The best part of this for now (still needs some tweaking) is the leaderboards visible right away for the games that support them! Yay! For instance, check out my consistent example (gotta get a new example), Castle Clout: Return of the King. You should see the leaderboard widget shown on the right and the game's info block on the left with a "Play Game!" button. That brings me to the next point...

I've been hard at work polishing off a bunch of problems that were lingering for a long time here at the Bragfile.com Network. Lots of little glitches and some features that needed updating/installing before I could move forward with the sites. Well, I'm getting much of that junk behind me and now I'm spiffing up the sites a lot more!

Soon, you'll be seeing some new features on the home pages of each site in the network. Primarily, I'm (finally) getting some time to review a handful of the incredible stash of free online games we have here. This will mean there will be some new sections available to see some of our recommended games that we think you might like. Soon after the recommended games lists are live, we'll be working on the "favorites" list that will show what we think are the best of the best games we have. I'm excited about getting that going, since I've been bookmarking games for a long time that I look forward to pointing out to you!

Finally, the high scores work for games that support it, but we'll be making it much easier to find the games that are leaderboard-enabled. Sorry to have put that gem off for so long -- many people are looking forward to it.

Well, thanks for coming by and I really hope you like where things are heading! Please come back soon and bring friends!

Well, here we go again! Massive, massive changes are happening to all the Bragfile Network sites -- including, for instance: www.FlashGamePost.com, www.PointlessGames.com, www.OnlineGameHounds.com, www.CasinoGamePlanet.com, et. al... "Massive", I say!! I am scrambling to get the core stuff done as quickly as possible, but I'm running out of steam after an all-nighter (which follows many days of very long hours, incidentally).

There is some potential for very strange things to happen, but hopefully nothing will be show-stopping for anyone. However, I'd suggest you just go with the flow for maybe a few days to a week, while I sort out all the various goodies in the front & back of the site. There are some things that are likely to shift, so if you were heading in here for one thing and you are bluntly bumped over to another thing... well, I'm sorry. Hopefully you'll get your bearings and be able to right your boat quickly.

Thanks a bunch for visiting and please keep coming back. There are some very big things happening and you'll hopefully really enjoy what's in store. Even though there's going to be a lot of dust & debris for a bit longer, the end result is something I'm very, very stoked about!

Take care and please spread the word about our sites!

Cheers,
[Paul] Hoza