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Less a point and click adventure game and more an interactive storybook, Little Wheel does one thing and it does it tremendously well: Little Wheel blurs the line between art and gaming, challenging our notions of what an interactive experience can be. Read more»

Crush the Castle is initially a sweet and appealing thing, much like a Cadbury creme egg.  The oozing, sugary concoctions are a rite of passage during Easter, but after three or four (or in my case, a dozen), you realize why they are confined to a single two-month portion of the candy calendar. Read more»

Self-parody as a genre may seem like a strange idea, but it's one that's crept up rather successfully in gaming over the past year.  Taking standard gameplay concepts and exploiting their ridiculousness for our amusement has proven highly successful in the world of flash games.  Web-based parodies like You Have to Burn the Rope or Super Press Space to Win Action RPG 2009 have made us chuckle more than we'd like to admit, but they all seem to suffer from one fatal flaw: they don't offer much more than a punchline.  That's where Upgrade Complete is different. Read more»

Finishing a construction job on a tight deadline can be a real challenge, but what if you had to assemble an entire building in seconds? That's the challenge presented by Stackopolis, the classic flash game of tile-based construction from Bloc Media. And while the art style borrow heavily from Habbo Hotel, don't expect any type of social interaction from this puzzling masterpiece. On the Stackopolis construction site, it's all hotel and no Habbo. Read more»

Electric Box, as the name might suggest, is a game about electricity.  Specifically, it's a game about conducting electricity.  You'll need to use a variety of objects and devices to move power from one point in the puzzle to another, but the most important tool you'll use is logic.  It's been a long while since we've seen a game that put our basic reasoning skills to the grindstone so intensely. Read more»

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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