Tag: VIDEO GAME

I'm a sucker for physics-based time waster games. Cover Orange is one that's new to me, and it's unique in that the goal is to protect your little orange and green pumpkins (or are they apples?) from acid rain. You can't move or control your little guys. Instead, you need to creatively place objects within each level to protect them. Sometimes this just means building a shelter for them, but more ...

What could be more compelling than documenting the lives of characters from the video game The Sims? Okay, it doesn't sound all that compelling, and there are many examples on the web of it being done poorly. But once in awhile someone comes along and does something that seems like a bad idea in such spectacular fashion that it truly becomes noteworthy. Alice and Kev is a blog by Robin Burkinshaw ...

A job posting on Gamasutra suggests Amazon will soon start a PC game download store to compliment Unbox, its video-on-demand service, and the site's MP3 download store. The job posting asks programmer/engineers to apply to become a part of the Software and Video Games Digital Technology Team at Amazon, which is "responsible for digital distribution of software and video game products from the ...

"No mindless trivia. No tricky stunts. Just $1,000,000 worth of food, and it's all for one question...Meal or no Meal?" In Meal or No Meal? You start by selecting a tray to keep to the side from 26 available dinner trays. You then eliminate dinner trays in small groups with each tray containing a food item worth somewhere between $.01 and $1,000,000. After each group of trays the dinner bell ...

Today's time-waster Cursor Run is a mouse race like no other. In the game your only job is to put your mouse cursor inside the circle before your computer opponent does. As the game progresses the circle appears much faster and your opponent gets much more difficult to beat. The game is extremely simple in concept but also extremely difficult in practice and highly addictive. Give it a try. ...

When I was in high school I used to play Dots with friends during lectures, on the bus, during lunch... anytime there was a lot of sitting involved and I didn't want to pay attention, which was the bulk of high school. When I found this flash version of the game I was addicted to it once again.. Playing Dots is simple. You have several rows of dots on a piece of paper. You and a friend (or in this ...

Question...what is only 72MB, downloadable, free, fun, and fraggalicious? Why OpenArena, of course. This little game (with excellent graphics I might add) is built on the FOSS Quake 3 engine. There is a single player, as well as multiplayer mode you can play with. The latest version is 0.6.0, and is really a lot of gameplay packed into a small download (for what it is). If you are a gaming fan, ...

Another holiday has come and gone, and you've discovered nobody loves you enough to buy you an $800 video game console. But if you've got a Playstation Portable or a Windows Mobile devices (particularly a Dell Axim X50v or X51v), there's good news on the video game front. Engadget's reporting that hackers have figured out a way to make the Playstation emulator for PSPs more useful. Now you can ...

I'm not sure why this game is called Knuckles in China Land, but it's a learning game for practicing your Japanese characters--Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji--or your Japanese, Indonesian, or German vocabulary. The game stars Knuckles from the Sonic the Hedgehog games (unlicensed, I'm sure) and takes the form of a traditional RPG, except that instead of fighting battles with monsters, you must ...