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May 22, 2008

PuzzleManiak

Great puzzle collection for the (jailbrokened) iPhone. Some are a bit fiddly to play with your finger as stylus, but overall they’re a lot of fun.

May 2, 2008

XSketch

Multiplayer online Pictionaryalike.

March 26, 2008

Crossover Games

Wine for OS X and Linux especially designed to play graphically-intensive Windows games. The Orange Box and its contents are supported, and Audio-Surf ran OK for me, with some minor resolution-based oddness. Not sure it’s worth $40, though, when I can just reboot to Boot Camp.

March 21, 2008

Experimental Gameplay Project t-shirts at Target

Target is stocking t-shirts which come with CD-ROMs of games from the Experimental Gameplay Project. Off-the-wall short-form games *and* silk-screened T-shaped clothing? It’s like they’re IN MY MIND!

February 25, 2008

Forumwarz

Funny and clever RPG based on pwning internet forums. I’m having a lot of fun with it.

February 16, 2008

Audiosurf: Ride Your Music

An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!

December 31, 2007

iminlikewithyou: Blockles

I’m In Like With You branches out into wickedly-addictive multiplayer Tetris. They even let you play without joining the site.

December 20, 2007

Passage

Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator’s statement. Lovely.

December 19, 2007

Peggle

The awesome Peggle is now available for Mac, for anyone who hasn’t yet been caught in its crack-like addiction. And only $10 to register until the end of the year. Well worth it.

November 27, 2007

Iphone Gaming: Native LucasArts Games Emulation Makes iPhone Absolutely Perfect

OK, time to Jailbreak my iPhone again…

November 17, 2007

Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games

A brief history of Bejeweled and similar “casual” games.

September 18, 2007

Nelson’s Weblog: Space Giraffe

Sounds fucking AMAZING! Do I dare buy a $300 console, just to play a $5 game?

September 12, 2007

Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game

Best game so-far for the iPhone. And once again I say: If this is the awesomeness unleashed by reverse-engineering, imagine what might be possible if Apple ever get around to releasing a proper development environment for the iPhone.

August 26, 2007

The Lemmings Story

Creation of one of the best video games of all time. They’re absolutely right about the perfection of the learning curve in the first game.

August 1, 2007

Taito announces Arkanoid DS, special paddle included - DS Fanboy

Arkanoid for the DS will be packaged with a paddle controller so you can play the game as it was always intended. This makes me colossally happy.

May 18, 2007

JPC - Computer Virtualization in Java

Java applet that emulates an x86 PC. Kind of interesting, but what’s really cool? They’re demoing it with lots of classic PC games — Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Lemmings… If they had “Jones in the Fast Lane”, it’d be perfect!

May 1, 2007

Frets On Fire

Open source Guitar Hero-a-like.

April 6, 2007

CHICK CHICK BOOM

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

March 21, 2007

Desktop Tower Defense

Excellent Flash strategy-ish game which cost me about 20 minutes of productivity. So far.

March 1, 2007

Sprout

Relaxed, attractive Flash logic puzzle. A lovely way to fill five minutes.

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