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It's Marathon 2, the ported-to-Windows-95-Halo-in-an-abandonware-can! What are you waiting for, go blast some Pfhor!

What a whitty caption for todays update, dont you think?

Todays game is Starlord, a game with no lesser goal than galactic domination. Features huge ships, space battles and lords and ladies. Kudos to Greyfox Maquis.

The evil....evil is back!

*gibberish and unimaginable horrors are summoned to kill you all and swallow your souls!*

In mortal words, Call of Cthulhu, a horror adventure game, is once again downloadable. Go get it, 'cause its a nice game.

*more unprotected games coming up this week, as well as new ones*

To the great, mighty empire of the Incas, in the Sierra's adventure game "Inca", which mixes up history and sci-fi and of course, adventure elements.

In english: Inca is now downloadable again. More unprotections coming up....

Its Valentine's day, the day when you celebrate love and friendship. However, If you happen to be missing the action for tonight, for whatever reason (I know the feeling), you might always help up someone else's love trouble, like Dirk's.

You see, Dirk loves this beatiful princess, Daphne. However, Daphne has been kidnapped and taken to the castle. With your help, you can guide Dirk trough the traps, monsters and pitfalls in this arcade classics dos-version. Can you unite these youths in love? Its a daring task! 

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you: Dragon's Lair 2 - Escape from Singe's Castle!

Today I have for you Wrath of Earth, a no-name game that everyone should know. If you like action-adventure games, go play it!

Edit: Happy birthday AlumiuN! ;)

Downloads are...well, down. Again! Dont know why, but its wasnt our fault. We do hope, however, that someone hears the cries of our needs and gets to work on putting the damn thing back up!

In meantime....uh, I dont know. Pay visit at our forums? Write reviews? Go somewhere else?

Well, that was shorter than we expected. The downloads are working again. Yippee.

So why the newspost? There's a second announcement; To continue our ongoing unprotection's, The original Double Dragon is once again available for download. Martial artists Billy's girlfriend had been kidnapped by the Black Gang and its up to Billy and his brother Jimmy to save her and kick every punk that opposes them.

Love it or hate it, HotU was one of the (if not THE) most well-known  Abandonware websites on the net. If you were looking for abandonware - HOTU had it. If you were looking for a massive archive with literally thousands of games to download and reviews to go with them - HotU had it. If you were looking for a rare or obscure title not found anywhere else on the internet... chances were HotU had it.

But over last three years HotU was dying a slow death, with no updates and the once-active community dwindling down until all that was left of it was the core of most die-hard supporters. In September last year the site went offline, only to return far diminished soon after, with none of the downloads or screenshots working anymore - reducing the once glorious abandonware archive to but a shadow of its former self.

A week ago, it went down again - and seems this time it's for good: according to a message posted by the site's owner on Twitter, it's webhost closed down due to bankrupcy, thus leaving HotU with no place to call home.

It's sad to see such an end for what was the best Abandonware site of - quite literally - the last decade.

Ladies and gentlemen, a minute of silence in the memory of the epic sprawl of gaming madness that was HotU.