To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Command & Conquer, EA is providing the original Command & Conquer PC game as a free download. Visit the news section and click on the 12th Anniversary link, then download the two ISO images. Windows XP users will want to also download the special installation instructions to get it …

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Where on the web can you play a friendly game of Boggle online?
How To Play Boggle
The goal of Boggle is for the player to find words in a 4 x 4 grid of letters.
In the original Parker Brothers / Hasbro Boggle game, shown at right, the letter grid is created by shaking letter-faced dice into …

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Plastic Balls is a swell Flash-based breakout game from Plastic Martians, a.k.a. Matt Folkard. It’s of the circular breakout variety. Folkard is a free-lance Flash designer based in Manchester, England.
Game Play
If you know how to play Breakout, particularly circular Breakout — where your paddle is in the center and you bounce the ball outward to …

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Zork and Imagination

Back when we occasionally had to use our brains to create the images within games, a.k.a. in the 1980s and earlier, a text-based adventure game called Zork was incredibly popular. Since most games back then were either played on a board or in the backyard, our imaginations regularly got a workout. Besides, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and other books (stories written on piles of flat sheets called “paper” and bound together) were popular back then too, so the imagery came easily.

If you were born after 1980, brace yourself; the image you see below may shock you.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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