Hah, this is turning into a farse. Everyone knows that Home of the Underdogs have been on a retreating boat ever since the last update from its webmaster in 2005-ish. Domain changes, offline and my Mother Mary what not. Earlier this year HoTU's host provider went bankcrupt, effectively sealing the deal of this long overdue coffin.

But, you know what? Internet's greatest Abandonware phenomenon isn't something that simply goes away - for that it has too many dedicated fans with nothing better to do. And that's great news for us.

On 8th of March 2009, most of HoTU's previous catalog is back under www.hotud.org. Even though no downloads are available and the catalog is still updating, it seems like Sarinee's vision of a wiki like contribution system finally got to see the light of day, as this time around everything is based on the Joomla! CMS. The overall layout is pretty decent, and with much less amount of ads than before. I still miss some of the "HoTU" feeling here and many links are outdated, but I guess we ought to give them time. The overall impression is still very good for those well documented reviews.

Keep it up HoTuD ppl!

Also, I can't think of a better time to combine Turin Brake's eminent song "Underdog" with this, than now:




Also, 1 update appended. Abandonia Reloaded to be exact. They added Battle Tanks, a competitive tank game.