Enough of this practical advice and useful downloads! I know you've been working hard, and you're probably itching for some fun and excitement. If you've read some of my previous Time Wasters, you'll know that I've got a soft spot for old school gaming. Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action!
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When a company has one of the most successful MMORPGs games of all time, the last thing anyone there wants to do is throw a wrench into what the customer's rigs can handle. To that end, the Blizzard team explained in a few interviews last week that World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions.
SongBlitz is a game that puts your musical knowledge to the test. Do you think you know Rock & Pop, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Metal, or Indie music? Or are you knowledgeable in all of the above genres? Put your skills to the test and try this game out. We promise you could waste a lot of hours playing this.
mySQLgame is a quirky App Engine game that has decided to forgo flashy UIs and just stick with the core of the system: a database. You start the game by creating your own row in the shared game database. Game time increments your fuel and money resources every ten seconds. . .
The game is simple: Look at these pictures decide if the image was digitally altered or untouched.*Click Images To See A Larger View
Desktop Tower Defense is amazingly simple and easy to play with. However, it is one of the most addictive little games you will find. Check it out at your own risk...
... only on serious, serious drugs. Serious drugs.
Retro classic mashed up with physics, powerups and a lot more bad guys. Yeah it even has the old school controls.
Your entirely useless-but-entertaining online 'game' of the week ... c/o the sux
Help Bob collect dirty jokes on his way to the Roast. With actual dirty punchlines.
The 'Star Trek' massively multiplayer online game will finally emerge.
Simply click on the square to begin.
This is a promo site for “The Last Guy”, a PSN game. In this flash site, you can type in a URL and turn any website on the web into a battlefield. Your mouse movement controls a character which is kinda like a magnet. The Aim is to lead people to the 'escape zone' (top left corner). Clicking increases your speed, provided you still have stamina.
A SICK game on Facebook has been removed from the website after The Sun revealed how kids were able to STAB each other.Members of the internet social network could "SHANK" - street slang for knifing - other users by clicking on a blade icon in the popular SuperPoke! application.
Game Director Jeffrey Kaplan: "I don't believe that WoW is untouchable," he said. "I completely believe that a game could come out and be more successful than WoW. I'm hoping that we're working on it right now."
Well, you kind of had to see this one coming. Days after taking Scrabulous down in response to the lawsuit from Hasbro, the brothers behind the game have put up a new game called "WordScraper" that is similar, but has a few different rules as well. The idea, obviously is to be different enough to get around the lawsuit from Hasbro.