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The Slacker's Guide to Shareware, authored by the wild and often wacky Chris Barylick, is back with another installment. In this feature the Slacker looks at four cool shareware games including Native Assault and Bubble Trouble for OS X.

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Summer is officially here and despite the fact that the season does its very best to kill the Slacker on an annual basis, some terrific shareware games have glanced his way with “come hither” looks in their binary eyes. With that in mind and the fact that gaming is appropriate even while performing open-heart surgery, the Slacker is happy to present four titles that have earned their proverbial stripes. No, your couple of bucks won’t allow a game’s creators to frivolously throw their money away on the Segway units of the future, but it might just allow them to buy food, pay the rent and afford the flamethrowers that would make all the difference in reaching a more amicable agreement with their apartment’s cockroach population…

The Slacker's Guide to Shareware - Part 3

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