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Tyrian 2000 Free On Good Old Games

Ho ho ho! Tis' the season to be jesus christ it's the 14th already and I haven't started my Christmas shopping. Doomed.

Anyway, Good Old Games are having a dirty great Holiday sale and perhaps as a means of driving further interest they've (1) Added scrolling shooter Tyrian 2000 to their catalogue, and (2) Made it available for free. You can get it here. Tyrian 2000 was only an update of the original Tyrian which went freeware in 2004 (EDIT: Apparently Tyrian 2000 is also freeware!), so this isn't exactly the world's most generous offer, but it's still a pleasant surprise. Want to see what you're in for? Well! Have a gander at the following archive footage.

Listen to that music! Also, check out the incredibly long boss fight at 4:30. I've had relationships shorter than that boss fight.

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Quintin Smith: Quinns was one of the first writers to join Rock Paper Shotgun after its founding in 2007, and he stayed with the site until 2011 (though he carried on writing freelance articles well beyond that). These days, you can find him talking about tabletop board games over on Shut Up And Sit Down, or doing proper grown-up journalism with the folks at People Make Games.
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