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Entries from March 2007

Desktop TD 1.2 Released

March 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Desktop Tower Defense has been upgraded to version 1.2. This version introduces Spawn Creeps, a Bash Tower, new Fun modes, and smarter creep AI.
The Spawn Creeps are larger and when destroyed burst into smaller creeps, some of which may end up on the other side of diagonally-connected towers — so be careful.
Bash Towers are slow

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Tags: Flash · Free · Mini-review · Online games · Platforms · Reviews

Bubble Tanks

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Bubble Tanks is Flash-based game from Hero Interactive. It is amazingly similar to flOw, a beautiful underwater petri dish game we mentioned last July in our roundup of online games. Bubble Tanks has a marvelous soundtrack and is visually impressive. Though it lags a bit behind flOw graphically, it adds the ability to shoot your

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Tags: Flash · Free · Mini-review · Online games · Platforms · Reviews

Boomshine

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Boomshine is a nice little online Flash game from K2xL. The goal is to catch floating dots in the blooms of other exploding dots through twelve levels.
The game features a high score board and is accompanied by a beautiful and repetitive soundtrack. Very addicting in small spurts.

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Tags: Flash · Free · Mini-review · Online games · Platforms · Reviews

Desktop Tower Defense

March 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Yet another Flash-based Tower Defense game, this time from Paul Preece of Hand Drawn Games. Perhaps a little confusing, “Desktop” refers to the background image in the game, not that you download it and play on your Windows (or Mac or Linux) Desktop.

Desktop Tower Defense is great take on the game. Instead of building towers on the walls of a maze, as in Critters’ Flash Element TD, in Desktop Tower Defense your towers create the maze.

There are four difficulty levels available: easy, normal, hard, and challenge. Scores in the Easy level are not saved. Challenge levels include a speed level and a few where various tower types are unavailable.

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Tags: Flash · Free · Online games · Platforms · Reviews

Flash Circle TD Released

March 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

At long last, David Scott, A.K.A. “Critters,” has released Flash Circle TD. It’s hosted at Wrigley’s Candystand.
Scott indicates that he’s still enhancing it, much as he did with Flash Element TD. It’s not bad, but it is tough.

Related PostsFlash Circle TDHere are a couple Youtube videos of Flash Circle TD, a work-in-progress from David

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Tags: Flash · Free · Online games · Platforms

Nintendo Wii Mii Commercial

March 15th, 2007 · No Comments

New Nintendo Wii Mii commercial, highlighting the cutting-edge advances wrapped up in the bestselling, sold-out, mega-hit silliness system. Make your Mii and then play it on Wii. Indeed.

Related PostsArt of Wii ContestNintendo is running a contest where you can win one of six custom-painted Art of Wii consoles. The c…Nintendo Wii AdSimple, clever Nintendo

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Tags: Nintendo Wii · Platforms · Video

IronSudoku IE6 Autofill Solved

March 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Finally. An IE6 and Firefox IronSudoku autofill script.
After wondering for some time why on earth the IronSudoku autofill scripts would not run under Internet Explorer 6, but were fine in Firefox and IE7, the cause and a solution present themselves at long last.
IE6 Limits
The problem is that IE6 limits the length of bookmarklets to 508

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Tags: Free · Online games · Puzzles · Tips

First Online Wii Game?

March 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Amid rumors of no Wii online games until late this year or early next year there comes this little glimmer of hope from Amazon. They have Blazing Angels listed as a Nintendo WiFi game with up to 16 players online. Granted, it looks as though most of the information was copied from the

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Tags: Nintendo Wii · Online games