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Tired of the usual tower defense games?  While GemCraft isn't a revolutionary effort, it adds some new wrinkles into the usual "build, defend, build" cycle in the genre re-popularized by Desktop Tower Defense. Read more»

The best aspects of Droplets by Nitrome are apparent immediately from its title screen.  As soon as it loads, you are hit by twinkling, ethereal music and somewhat-clunky, blocky and retro-cute graphics.  Droplets bears the stamp of MTV Networks, and this initial presentation immediately made me think of the days when MTV actually, gasp, showcased music as its primary product. Read more»

Now that Twitter has gone mainstream (or as a very few detractors would say, has jumped the shark), it is only a matter a time before we would see casual games emerge on Twitter.

140 Mafia is a Twitter game where user collect their Mob or "followers" by fulfilling tasks, attaining property, and collecting or purchasing equipment.   The game is similar to Zynga's Mafia Wars on Facebook so it's for mature audiences only (in Movie-speak, it would be a PG-13 rating).

Tweet Bricks is a Twitter game designed to be played by everyone.  You literally play a game of Tetris with shapes created out of your or your friend's tweets.  It's a little wonky, but cool.  If you want to play Tetris with Gamezebo's tweets, be sure to follow Gamezebo on Twitter. Read more»

Puzzle Defense is a free Web game from Armor Games and Lazy Peon that combines tower defense gameplay (think Plants vs. Zombies) with match-3. The goal is to strategically place towers and traps to stop your enemies in their tracks, but in order to build you need to gather enough resources by matching three or more colored runes. Click here to play Puzzle Defense for free. Read more»

 

It's almost impossible to believe, but Bipole was created in just 48 hours as part of the 2009 Global Game Jam - a two-day game design marathon that attracted participants from all over the world.

 

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In honor of Earth Day we’re letting you take revenge on some rainforest-invading loggers by lobbing oranges at them in Rainforest Rescue. You’ll use the mouse to set the catapult’s power and direction, then click to release the monkeys' oranges over the treetops in the direction of the loggers and their vehicles. Try aiming at the toucan flying overhead – he’s there to help! Play Rainforest Rescue for free. Read more»

As a big fan of vinyl toys, I've been getting a kick out of Scarygirl, a free Web game based on the slightly twisted creations of Australian-born artist and toy designer Nathan Jurevicius. Part adventure and part action platformer, the game begins after Scarygirl wakes up from a bad dream and decides to try to find out the dream's meaning. Read more»

We’re taking our most popular forum game, Word Association, to Twitter, and offering you a way to win a free game!   Click “read more” to learn how to play, have fun, and good luck!  Read more»

Nitrome has followed up its nordic puzzler Ice Breaker with a sequel, Ice Breaker - The Red Clan.The goal is still to rescue vikings from frozen blocks of ice, but the 40 new levels have taken some bizarre new twists including a magical ice-grasping hand, crows tethered to ropes, balloons shaped like buxom viking ladies, and mist that prevents you from cutting. Play Ice Breaker - The Red Clan for free.

 

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Tri Towers Solitaire is TriPeaks-style solitaire with a fantasy twist: when you clear each peak, a castle sprouts up in its place. Each time you clear a layout, you'll move on to the next round, but lose a round and it's Game Over. High scores can be shared with friends online if you add the application to Facebook. Play Tri Towers Solitaire for free. Read more»

A girl's mind starts to wander during class, and her daydreams take her to the land of the fairies. Dreams is all about what she sees on her journey - presented as a collection of colorful spot-the-difference puzzles. Play Dreams for free by clicking here. Read more»

In this puzle game you play from the unique point of view of a virus trying to spread yourself across the entire playing field before you run out of moves. The board is broken up into blocks of randomized colors, and by changing the colors of your virus, you absorb neighboring blocks of the same color. The number of moves you get to work with will decrease with each level. Click here to play Virus 3 for free. Read more»

Candy Bricks is literally the classic puzzle game Tetris turned upside down. Instead of blocks falling from the top of the screen, they float upward from the bottom. The same rules still apply: fit the different-shaped blocks together to clear rows from the board, and if the stack gets too "high" and touches the bottom of the screen it's game over. Oh, and as if things weren't disorienting enough, the ceiling is slowly caving in on you. Click here to play Candy Bricks for free. Read more»

How good are you at understanding shapes and patterns? In Through Walls you'll start with a 3-dimensional object floating in air, and a white wall off in the distance with a shape cut out of its center. Your goal is to rotate the object until its shape is the same as the hole in the wall so that it can pass through. A grid in the lower right corner helps you - once all of its squares are green, you're good to go. Click here to play Through Walls for free. Read more»

If you're a fan of Blackjack, check out Stack Cards. Like Blackjack, the goal is to create card stacks that add up to 21 by turning over one card at a time - go over 21 and you're "busted." You can have up to four stacks on the go at once, so try to create multiple stacks of 21 in a row for bonus points. Play Stack Cards for free.

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Flashcat is a neat racing game from Nitrome where you get to guide a kitty riding atop what appears to be some kind of wriggly spider through various courses strewn with obstacles and baddies. (Read more.)
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It's Man vs. Vending Machine, and only one will be left standing at the end of Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge. Your goal: to beat the vending machine into submission through a series of well-timed mouse clicks in order to grab the sweet snack inside. Read more»

 

Some exploring Vikings have run into trouble, and they need your help to break through the ice so that they can get back to their homeland in Ice Breaker, a Web-based puzzle game from Nitrome.

 

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Control an alien hopping from rock to rock in space as it tries to reach Jupiter. Owing to floaty physics you'll have to use the mouse to adjust the angle and velocity of your jump just so, or you'll overshoot (or undershoot) the target. You have 10 lives to make it to the goal. Think you can do it? Play Mission to Jupiter now.

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There's nothing quite like helping a giant flamboyantly-colored robot destroy watermelons and apples by guiding his arm download in a chopping motion - all in time to the beat of the music that plays in the background. That's just the start of the fun with Nitrome's Pixel Pop, whose ten levels all serve up a different quirky scenario to wrap your head around. (Read more.) Read more»

Earlier this month Mochi Media released its list of the 10 most popular flash games of 2008, and Bricks Breaking was number eight. It's a simple puzzle game where the goal is to clear a grid by clicking on groups of like-colored bricks to destroy them. Other bricks collapse in to fill the space, so there's a fair bit of strategy involved in planning ahead and predicting where the bricks are going to fall. If you get stuck, you can use a limited supply of magic wands to remove single bricks. The game ends when you can't make any more moves and have run out of wands. Click here to play Bricks Breaking for free. Read more»

Dear Santa:  This year, all I want for a Christmas is a free flash game where you splash monkeys with water balloons. 

If this item is on your Christmas List, then congratulations!  You've been a good boy or girl this year and allow me introduce to you to Balloono.

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In Frost Bite 2 you're a climber trying to get to the top of a mountain using the arrow keys to move, and your trusty grappling hook to propel you to hard-to-reach places. On the way to the top, you'll collect goodies for points, and encounter obstacles like monsters, dark rock that your grappling hook can't stick to, and rotating elevator lifts. Play Frost Bite 2 now for free.

 

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Let's Get Cookin' is a Web game that follows in the tradition of Cooking Mama and Top Chef. You'll get to prepare 10 meals including Stir Fried Vegetables, Pasta Primavera and Salmon with Tomato Risotto by following recipes that you can later print out and use in your own kitchen.

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When it's Wednesday and in doubt on a Web game to pick, check out what Nitrome is up to is my mantra. Nitrome and MTV Arcade has just released Toxic 2, a robotic side scroller flash game more intense than its predecessor.  Controls are simple:  Use your arrow keys to move left, right, jump and duck.  Use your space bar to drop a bomb (and take cover).  Toxic 2 features 20 new robot infested levels, new bosses to fight, and machines to overthrow.  Play Toxic 2 for free on MTV Arcade. Read more»