Logitech G5 Laser Mouse Updated
Logitech has updated the superb G5 Laser Mouse. It’s a small but welcome bit better.
For a couple years now the Logitech G5 Laser Mouse has arguably been the mouse to get, particularly for gaming, and particularly if you can mouse right-handed and spend roughly $40-$50 on a mouse.
The G5 sports a …

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Game Tips, Walkthroughs, and Cheats
If you spend much time playing a videogame, you will likely start to wonder if there are tricks or strategies that you can use to improve your scores or progress. In games where missions or quests are involved, or even in elaborate puzzle games, you might looks for walkthroughs, which describe …

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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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Peggle, new from PopCap Games, is an stunning mix of Pachinko, Pinball, Breakout, and probably some other games.

Four Modes
There are four modes of play in Peggle: Adventure, Quick Play, Duel, and Challenge.
Adventure Mode
In Adventure Mode you play through eleven phases of five levels each, with each phase introducing a new guide character who gives 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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Flash Element TD (Tower Defense) is an free online Flash-based game where you, not surprisingly, are tasked with building towers to defend against a wide variety of invaders (called “creeps”). David Scott programmed this from scratch and used Adobe Photoshop and the Warcraft III level editor to create the graphics and sounds.

Let’s take a look at the game and some FETD strategies.

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