Flashback to August of 1995. Westwood Studios released Command & Conquer, a real-time strategy game (RTS) pitting the UN-backed GDI forces against the Brotherhood of Nod. The Brotherhood was supposed to be evil, but GDI was the UN, so it was a tough call to pick your poison. C&C was a fun game. So much so that several sequels and expansion packs were released, including Covert Operations, Sole Survivor, Tiberian Sun, TS Firestorm, and Renegade. An alternate universe series, Red Alert, was also released. It included C&C: Red Alert (1996), Counterstrike and The Aftermath (1997), Red Alert 2 (2000), and Yuri’s Revenge (2001). Another related game is C&C: Generals and its expansion pack, Zero Hour.

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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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Is Battlefield 2142 a worthy followup to EA Games’ Battlefield 2?

Well, there are some problems. Though it is set on the battlefield of the future, replete with mechs and drones and hover tanks, BF 2142 is not really even a major upgrade to BF 2. It’s more like… Battlefield 2.142.

That said, there are some interesting elements to the game that make it intriguing. The weaponry is futuristic but that future is not far off and modern weapons remain nearly unchanged.

More of the review, videos, and screenshots…

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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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There are a lot of great online games that you can play for free. It’s good for your wallet, lots of fun, and goes a long way towards self-improvement. No kidding.

This article covers dozens of free online games, spanning various genres, form word games to shooters, from puzzles to eating games and more.

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Bang Howdy, a wild-west game from the creators of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, Three Rings Design, is in an open beta test. As they descibe it, it’s a “multiplayer online tactical strategy game in a 3D Wild West setting, yee haw!”
It is a fun action-strategy game, though it’s definitely still beta quality. The game sports …

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WEBoggle is a nicely-done online Boggle. Your score for each timed round is ranked against other players, and the words you missed are listed, along with the words everyone missed. Clicking the board rotates it.
Aside from missing the less-obvious, rare words, I have some difficulty finding pesky little common words. Humbling, but fun.
You can choose …

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