Thursday, November 18, 2010

Civibattle Free Bejeweled Strategy Game Review

Civibattle is a game of the profoundly unexpected. It starts out like a game of Bejeweled, morphs into an overly simplified simulation or RTS game (or both) and then does something so twisted that your brain will be contorted into a shape that only M C Escher could love. You have been warned. This game is innovative, entertaining, and perhaps best of all, free.

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Turf Wars Dinosaur Fighting Game Review

Ever wanted to fight a dinosaur? Tackle a Triceratops? Beat a Brontosaurus? Whip the a** of an Archaeopterix? In Turf Wars, a game brought to you by History.com, you're about to get your wish.

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Top Three Simple Minecraft Texture Packs

There are a great many texture packs available for Minecraft, I've trialed a lot of them and narrowed the pack down to three of my favorite minimalist texture packs. If you're looking to add more detail to your game, you should check out my original texture pack guide, which contains links to Painterly and Quandary, two texture packs with lovely additional detail. If you want to keep your game simple and clean looking, the three texture packs below are the way to go.

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Blow Things Up Free Physics Game

'Cute' is hardly a word you might expect to be used in the context of a game solely devoted to destroying things with bombs, but 'Blow Things Up' a free game from PhysicsGames is so freakin' adorable that I sometimes felt bad about blowing the little circular creatures off their tenuos pylons of blocks. Mostly because of the 'awww' sound they make when they're blown up and the 'ooooo' sound as they fall to their little circular dooms. So very sweet.

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