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Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason!

5:00PM Luke Plunkett | For the most part, Heavy Rain is an entertaining exercise in story-telling. For the most part. The parts where you’re yelling at small children, not so much. More »
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Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars

5:00AM Mike Fahey | Are you addicted to levelling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars – “The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars.” More »
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You Are A Cat Eating Sushi Playing Peggle

4:20AM Mike Fahey | If you enjoy Peggle, felines and raw fish rolled in rice, then you’ll love Sushi Cat, a game about getting a cat fat enough to activate an automatic door. More »
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Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command, offering one more playable version of the venerable city defence twitch game, this time online and totally free. More »
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Canadian Sex Ed Game Stars Captain Condom, Wonder Vag

12:30PM Owen Good | And a guy in a lucha libre mask with dong arms. And if you answer a question incorrectly in a flash game put together by London, Ontario’s health service, he, uh, well … jizzes on you. NSFW at the jump. More »
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G-Switch Runs And Flips

2:00AM Brian Crecente | We need more mash-ups in video games. More »
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Gnop Lets You Be. The. Ball.

1:00PM Michael McWhertor | How many times can the classic paddle game Pong be reinvented? The answer is now “one more” with the release of gnop, in which you control the ball, not the paddles, each screen a unique, sometimes difficult challenge. [gnop]
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Mario Slips The Surly Bounds Of The NES

11:40AM Owen Good | After nearly a year on hiatus, the goofnuts at Retro Sabotage have churned out another flash-game defacement. This time, they show us Mario has nowhere to go but up. More »
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Tuper Tario Tros. Puts A Little Tetris In Your Mushroom Kingdom

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | A mash-up of Super Mario Bros. and Tetris should – or at least could – be the best video game of all time, given how strong each title is independently. But is that marriage of gameplay styles enjoyable in practice? More »
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Holiday Timewaster: Santa Fu

9:00AM Owen Good | Mrs Claus has been abducted, and Santa’s out to deck the walls with gingerbread men and nutcracker guts. It’s a Christmas mashup of Kung Fu for the NES and it’s (wait for it) ho-ho-holarious. More »