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Free-to-Play Madden Alternative Inks Four More Celebs

1:40PM Owen Good | Quick Hit Football, the free-to-play online fantasy sports/RPG hybrid Kotaku profiled two months ago, has signed agreements with four more coaches to use their likenesses as opposing AIs within the game. More »
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The Dragon Age Journeys Begin Today

2:20AM Mike Fahey | EA 2D sets the stage for Dragon Age: Origins today, with the launch of the first chapter of Dragon Age Journeys, the 2-dimensional browser-based tie-in to BioWare’s blockbuster RPG. More »
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BioWare Announces Browser-Based Dragon Age Prequel

6:00AM Owen Good | Calling it “a collaboration between EA 2D, BioWare, and some of the hottest indie talent from the flash developer community,” BioWare has announced the browser-based Dragon Age: Journeys, which will serve as a prequel to the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins. More »
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Balloon Boy Game Announced For PC Worldwide

4:30PM Owen Good | Yesterday we explored the crossover between balloons in the news and video games. Today, certifying the saga of Balloon Boy as a true news event, someone made a flash game out of it – a flash-based side-scroller anyone can enjoy. More »

Opera Browser For Wii Levels Up

10:20AM Stuart Houghton | Wii owners can look forward to some slightly-more-adequate web browsing real soon now if this rumoured upgrade to Opera is on the money. More »

Sunday Timewaster: Marshmallow

5:30AM Maggie Greene | This wonderfully adorable (and kind of weird) game is pretty straight forward — guide the marshmallow around a variety of objects just waiting to take a bite out of your head and send you hurtling towards the ground so you can land with a ’splat.’ It’s cute. It’s not terribly taxing. The soundtrack is … well, something (soothing? Weird? Vaguely Katamari-esque? All of the above?), but the game is really cute and a nice way to waste a couple of minutes or more …. Marshmallow [forrent via IndieGames] More »

Sunday Timewaster: Bounce Shot

5:30AM Maggie Greene | IndieGames succinctly describes this as ‘a cross between Breakout and Space Invaders,’ which is pretty accurate — but it’s a fun game with a retro feel. I was in the mood for some candy-coloured, easy to pick up fun this weekend, and this definitely hit the spot. Boss battles every 10 levels, power ups, and trying not to get hit with your own bullets (so watch out for that trigger finger) — add in some cute alien enemies, and you’ve got the recipe for how I wasted a good chunk of my Sunday morning. Bounce Shot [Nigoro via IndieGames] More »

Old School Dungeoneering In The Tombs Of Asciiroth

5:20AM Kotaku US Edition | Fans of pre-graphical RPGs like Nethack and Rogue might occasionally wander out from their UNIX labs and find themselves confronted with a modern web browser. Once the initial shock of daylight and antialiased fonts has worn off, they will probably need to chill out with a quick dungeon hack. Tombs Of Asciiroth is a labour of love — recreating the look and feel of an ASCII roguelike in Firefox. There is full-length quest to be had wandering the titular Tombs, and the usually obscure keyboard commands are illustrated with a nice tutorial level with pop-up tip windows. It can be a bit slow, and you will need to install Google Gears if you want to save your game, but there is plenty of old school fun to be had. You can’t not like a game that includes the phrase “Use the sword against hostile Ampersands”. The Tombs Of Asciiroth [Icculus.org] More »