PC

Mega Mash: The 7 Best Retro Arcade Games You’ve Played At Once

When you first start Mega Mash, the latest flash masterpiece from the folks at Nitrome, it seems like you’re about to play a 7-in-1 game cart filled with clever homages to classic games. Then everything goes wonderfully haywire.


September 18, 2011
PC

New Video Game Delivers The Immersive Realism Of Waiting 5 Hours In Line At A Museum

A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game.


July 19, 2011
PC

You Can Fix The US Debt With A Few Mouse Clicks

If you ever wanted to control where American dollars go, now’s your chance. American Public Media, known mostly for their expansive public radio work, recently updated Budget Hero, a free web-based game where the player has the future of the nation’s budget in their hands.


July 18, 2011
PC

VVVVVV Creator Makes Super Meat Boy A Tad More Impossible

Super Meat Boy is no joke. That’s a hard game, and that’s part of its appeal. Put it in the hands of the maker of another, harder game, and it collapses into a singularity of motherfucker-what-do-you want-me-to-do difficulty.


July 12, 2011
PC

The Captain America Game You Can Play For Free

Remember that free Thor game that was pretty great? Well, there’s one for Captain America. It’s also got old-school 2D platforming and some totally cute sprite art.


May 19, 2011
PlayStation

The PlayStation Network Inevitably Fails In PSN Protector

If Dutch game designer Kenney Vleugels’ Flash interpretation of the PlayStation Network security system were anywhere near accurate, PSN would have been down for the count years ago.


May 18, 2011
In Real Life

Shoot Targets To Get Duke Nukem Girls Topless

Putting new meaning in “flash game”, Duke Nukem is a browser title in which players shoot targets in a game of strip shooting. Winning peels clothes off your female rival. Losing, theoretically, gets you naked.


May 17, 2011
PC

Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 Delivers Hack-And-Slash In A Flash

Dragon Age Legends developer EA2D turned over all of the assets to its Facebook strategy role-playing game to acclaimed Flash game developer Pixelante, and the action-packed Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 is what they got back.


May 5, 2011
PC

The Thor Game You Can Play For Free (And Which Is Pretty Great)

There’s a new Thor movie. It’s not bad! And neither is this promotional flash game, featuring old-school 2D platforming and some adorable sprite art.


April 28, 2011
PC

It’s A Royal Wedding Game (With Zombies In It)

A real game based on the Royal Wedding would be boring as all hell. You’d be managing sliders based on protocol and a receding hairline. A game based on the Royal Wedding when it’s under attack by zombies, now that’s more like it.