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Firstly thank you to everyone for their kind comments. I'm not leaving and I won't be stopping posting reviews, just not the same format as I have been doing for the past 10 - 12 years.

The reviews have slowly increased in size as I've added new sections. I did reduce the size a few years ago as they were becoming unwieldy and I was sometime spending as much as six or more hours working on them (including the game time). I feel they have become unwieldy again, so want to reduce the size and cut down on stuff that isn't related to the game being given away, for example the games I link to at the end of most reviews I'll now post in the game discussion forum where they belong, but i will post a few links to the Epic and Indie Gala sites as they have been changing their free games regularly..

The main reason for my comment today was to say I'm spending far too much time on reviews for this site when I have a lot of other projects I'd either like to finish, or even start (for example I still have to edits thousands of feet of family cine film so that I can get it digitized. I have hundreds of hours of video that I've taken since my first video camera. Most of which needs editing and transferring to disk, I still have to set up my telescope and I am intending helping out with a new mod that is being created for the old battlefield 2 game plus I am hoping to navmesh some old maps and create some new ones, but I have to learn how to use the software to do so, and I want to relearn German to name just a few of the projects I'm part way through or still have to start. :)

All the work I do here is done for no payment (apart from the occasional Steam key I get for reviewing some of the limited giveaways, most of which I always enjoy playing e.g. Warhammer Vermintide I and II and Conan Exiles, all three of which are among my favorite AAA game genres. Also the recent ADM2 the top down RPG and more recently The Last Roman village).

Since last November we have been getting a lot of mid week games, sometimes every day each week. A lot of them have been pretty dire for example SovKey and Nekyau Games, but we have also had some excellent indie games over the past several months ranging from RPG's, Shooters, Shmups, Platformers and others. There was no way I could spend the same amount of time each day on the reviews so I decided to just post a short precis of the games after some game play time and include video links and some images as well. These took a lot less time than my weekend games, but still have cut into my spare time significantly. So I decided to do something similar with the weekend games at least for now, but only those games I'm not as keen on such as HOG's TM games and most Match Three games. I listed the types of games i enjoy playing in my comment this morning, so it stands to reason, that they are the games that are worth me spending time writing a full review, and not games I don't enjoy playing. It's one of the reasons I resorted to linking to other reviews written by more enthusiastic reviewers of those genres. It seemed and IMO was the best option to ensure the community was given enough information to make a decision as to whether or not download the game.

The original reason I started posting reviews was two fold, the first was as a thank you to the giveaway team for giving us so many great arcade games for free; (for all those of you who have been here since the inception of the project and until April 2008, when we used to get games from the likes of Alawar and other big name developers/distributors, you will remember many of those great arcade games we got. It didn't end there, but we only got games at the weekend for many years until last November when weekday games were returned. The second reason was becasue back when this site first started, internet was still expensive and many were on limited monthly downloads, so my reviews were partly to help them save their download allotments by giving them enough information via reviews, images and video (though I wasn't able to post images initially). Regards Whiterabbit-uk

I'm taking a (possibly permanent) break from my usual weekend review/comments; instead I'm just going to post (if available) a precis of useful links from walkthroughs, community comments and discussions about the game being given away as well as links to various game play videos and a couple of full reviews of the giveaways, plus several in game images. This will become the norm' as time goes on as I don't have as much time at the weekends as I used to have because I'm also spending a lot more time posting reviews of most games throughout the weekdays (Mon to Fri). This has eaten into my spare time significantly. I have loads of projects on the boil, but hardly have any spare time to devote to them, so I'm going to step back a little on the long reviews that I usually post at the weekends. Even when I use other reviews (which I always correctly reference and give credit to), it can still take me four or more hours to complete a review. If its a game I really enjoy such as a shmup, breakout, tower defense RPG, FPS, the occasional limited giveaways with Steam keys and some RTS games or maybe even an unusual platformer, I'll spend a little more time on posting a full and original review; otherwise they will be of a similar format to today's or my weekday reviews where I usually give a brief overview and opinion of each game. Of course I will continue to moderate these comments as usual, regards W.R.

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Dark Angels: Masquerade of Shadows

In Brief

Dark Angels: Masquerade of Shadows is a point and click adventure game with hidden object and puzzle mini-games featuring a female protagonist called Kate Evans.

You can read various discussions about Dark Angels: Masquerade of ShadowsHERE and over 60 short reviews of the game via Steam HERE and a written walk through HERE as well as a couple of full reviews via Pop Cult HQ, HERE and and All About Casual Games HERE.

Game play Videos:

You can also see several videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Check out the following links for details of other free games HERE (giveaway forums), HERE (Indie Gala freebies), HERE (Steam freebies) and HERE (Epic Games freebies).