IMG's resident Slacker, Chris Barylick has again stepped up to the plate to deliver info on some of today's best shareware titles in his Slacker's Guide to Shareware Gaming Part 7. In this edition, Chris discusses great shareware for this holiday season.

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Unexpected, completely out of left field and perhaps sporting one of the coolest names the Slacker’s seen in a long time, Franz Keller’s Mobius Whale Wars has turned out to be a welcome way to kill a few minutes at a shot. Anime meets the Socialist Worker meets Powerpuff Girls in terms of art; the game is unlike anything you’ve ever seen, the graphics burning their way through your frontal lobe and nesting comfortably in some long-forgotten section of your brain that tells you to pursue a mate with the longest tail, shiniest fur and lowest number of insects crawling across their back. Bright, strange, obscure, irreverent and packed to the brim with eye candy such as logos, kanji and inside jokes, the game has set out to make itself memorable and succeeded.

Slacker's Guide to Shareware Gaming Part 7

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