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Welcome to the Indie Showcase, a semi-regular column on Big Download that takes a look at games we haven't covered on the site that we really think you should play. You may be wondering why Indie Showcase is on Wednesday instead of Tuesday this week. That's because there are so many excellent entries in the Java4k 2009 competition that we needed an extra day to cover them all! For those that are unfamiliar, the Java 4k competition tasks a developer with creating a game with Java whose code and assets total to 4kb or less. It's quite a challenge, but some excellent games have come from it, including previously featured Left 4k Dead. So let's take a look at four of these awesome games and see just how much great gameplay is contained in the 4k competition. Remember that you can check out all of the competitors (including my favorite game from the competitions, Fuzetsu) from the 2009 competition as well as previous competitions on the official organization web page. Also, as this is Java4k, you will need Java installed. Big surprise there!

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Despite this article's provocative title, this won't exactly be a history of violent video games; more like a random sampling. While obviously not all games have violence in them, many of the more popular ones do. What's more, they're often inextraicably linked to the gameplay. What would Call of Duty 4 be without the combat? Could we still enjoy World of Warcraft without its serious medieval action? Would Dead Space be the same without the ability to sever freaky monster limbs? However, there are different levels of what's acceptable for violence. To my mind, one of the roles of violence in video games is to provide catharsis -- a sort of pressure valve to release all manner of negative emotions in a safe, controlled manner. I can't honestly think of any game that displayed violent acts that were too extreme for me to handle, but as our taste in content develops and matures, we might start to see a corresponding change in what we witness -- and commit -- in our video games. Let's take a look at some notable moments in video game violence over the years, and see if we can guess where we might be going.

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