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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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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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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An interesting twist on shoot-the-incoming-robots games, Word Shoot has you typing in the words under each robot that’s working its way towards you. If you let a robot get too close, it will start shooting at you. Other items appear on the screen occasionally, such as “detonate” and “fullhealth” which act as a smart bomb

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OpenArena is a free (GPL) content package for the Quake III Arena engine (with which it comes packaged). Essentially you download and run this 72.8 MB installer and end up with a free first person shooter based on the QIIIA engine. The graphics are not too bad (for free that is) and it supports single

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Winterbells is a wonderfully-addicting Flash game from Ferry Halim at Orisinal.
The goal is simple: Jump a white rabbit from bell to bell for an ever-increasing number of points per bell. Hop onto the occasional bird to immediately double your points. After a while you find that you are leaping across the screen between tiny little

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Word Sandwich is a free online Flash game, the goal of which is to guess a five letter word. It tells you if your guess is alphabetically above or below the word (hence, the sandwich). You get more points for guessing in fewer tries, with a multiplier thrown in for how quick you come up

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Simon Tatham has written a collection of puzzle games for Windows, Linux, and Max OSX. Someone has also ported them to the Palm.
Lots of Puzzles
There are 24 puzzles that range from a sliding tile game called Fifteen and a Color-the-Map game, to Dominoes, Solo (basically Sudoku), Mine Sweeper, Untangle, and others. You can download them

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