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Heavenly Tetris Delivers A Miracle From Above

1:47PM April 23, 2011 | Owen Good

On Wednesday, XKCD offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. More »


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Mega Man Christmas Carol Beats The Dickens Out Of Holiday Boredom

11:00AM December 27, 2010 | Owen Good

Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner? Mega Man Christmas Carol replaces the robot masters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, plus that poor old bastard Marley. More »


Saturday Timewaster: Bloktonik

8:00AM November 8, 2009 | Owen Good

Tipster BulletProof found this Tetrisesque block puzzle with an entrancing soundtrack and passes it along. But more curiously, “Bloktonik” seems to be in development for WiiWare (and for mobile), with a release date TBA. More »


Long Weekend Timewaster: GrowBox

10:00AM October 5, 2009 | Owen Good

Been a while since we’ve done these. Here’s GrowBox, courtesy of King.com. The object is to pick up all of the gold orbs, but consuming them makes your box grow, so the board must be navigated in a specific order. More »


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Weird Artistic Timewaster of the Day: Regret

3:30AM July 14, 2008 | Maggie Greene

Jason Rohrer (creator Passage, Immortality, and others) is back with another game, this one with the theme of regret (bet you never would’ve guessed from the title). Rohrer and a journalist writing about the design process game up with the theme, after nixing such topics as “stop snitching”, “torture policy”, and “stop-and-frisk”. The game itself deals with feeding animals … sort of:

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Jay is Games Casual Game Competition #5 Is Up

8:00AM March 23, 2008 | Maggie Greene

Jay is Games’ Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5 is now up with twenty one entries. I always like spending some time with the contest entries when they’re finally up; even though there’s always an overarching theme (this go around, it’s ‘upgrade’), the games are usually a pretty diverse and interesting bunch.

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