SNOWBALL WARS! - download

Play Snowball Wars, the snowballin' action game, anytime with our free download!

Click and drag kids from your team into position, and practice your snow skills.

Game objectives
You control the three red kids. The game starts out as a three vs three battle, but as you increase in level, the blue kids increase in number. Click and drag one of your kids into position so that you can get a good shot on the other team. Hold down the left mouse button to make your power meter go up. The more you fill up your power meter, the farther and harder your kid will throw. If a kid gets hit, but not too hard, he will be stunned. He'll stand there shaking, and will be temporarily unable to move or throw. If a kid gets hit hard enough, he'll fall down, and won't get up again until the next level. Knock down everyone on the blue team before they get you!

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Crayon Physics Deluxe - PC game

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a sequel to the popular freeware game Crayon Physics. Or you can think of it as the game I would have created if I would have had more than 7 days to do it. Way more than 7 days. More like 7 months or 17 months.

Anyway Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

The game features:

Greatly improved physics (you can draw what ever you want)
Huge number of new levels
Easy to use level editor
You can read more about the game from my blog. Also you can test the original prototype which is freely available. But please understand that the prototype isn’t a demo version of this game and doesn’t reflect the quality of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

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Painting without numbers on Nintendo DS

Ever dreamed of painting like Picasso? Van Gogh? Michelangelo? Maybe even Da Vinci. Well here's your chance. Introducing Paint by DS, a new "non-game" on the DS by Mercury Games and Ertain's series on the Nintendo DS.

This game explores a very young concept in gaming: non-violent and non-competitive. In fact, it aims to help the gamer relax. Using the stylus, the player mixes oil and water-based paints to emulate the colours and consistencies of real paint, then paints the colors unto the canvas. This game offers a palette of 15 colouring challenges with a dash of mini games based on the works of famous artists.

The developers created this game aimed for the DS owners who need to relax and tone down once in a while. Paint by DS is the first of their Zen series.

Limited editions will be sold with a paint set or a paint book. It will be released in Europe this August 24, priced at £ 19.99 / € 24.99. The US will Paint by DS themselves later this year.

Best Buy Black Friday offers - Resident Evil 4, others for US$ 19.99 each

The United States celebrated Black Friday once again and retail chain Best Buy had something in store for Nintendo Wii owners.

For those who aren't from the States, this is an unofficial shopping event where shops open early and sell items for discounted prices.

Anyway, Best Buy has decided to put a total of four different Nintendo Wii video games in the bargain basket for this event namely Resident Evil 4, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Brunswick Pro Bowling, Rapala Tournament Fishing. Each video game can be purchased for just US$ 19.99.

Take note that while each Best Buy store will carry a minimum number of 10 copies per title, a customer is only entitled to one purchase and no rain checks will be allowed.

Crazy games commercials...

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God Hand

The last title Clover Studio developed before disbanding may have gone past your noses, but a backgrounder isn't necessary to get the kicks out of this God Hand trailer. Some half-naked guy with a fist for a head walks around spanking ladies and breaking cars. Need we say more?

Super Mario Galaxy Wallpapers

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Mario Galaxy Box Art That Should Have Been

Some new wallpapers have turned up on the Japanese Mario Galaxy site.

What, you don't care about something as trivial as that? You're right, we're sorry. Nintendo news is, after all, serious business.

You probably think this picture is awful, hate both Mario and kittens and most definitely won't be clicking on it for a bigger version.

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Children's Allowance - Measured in Minutes, Not money

HOWARD AND LIZZIE SHERMAN, ages 15 and 9, know that they need to complete all their homework and chores in order to receive their weekly allowance. The amount may be a little less than usual if they’ve misbehaved, or a bit larger if they have done some extra work around the house.

When the children want to use their allowance, though, they don’t go to the mall. They turn on the family’s computer or television because there’s a parallel economy in place at the Sherman home, with a currency most often known as “screen time.”

Screen time can be spent playing computer games, watching TV or movies or, for older children, visiting social networking sites like MySpace or instant messaging with friends. This new currency, used in a growing number of households, works as an allowance because screen time is highly valued by children and teenagers, and usually restricted by parents.

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The games helmet that reads minds

A device that can translate your thoughts into onscreen movements could revolutionise much more than gaming

Think carefully before you answer: is a device that is capable of reading people’s minds fact or fantasy? We knew you’d say that. But scientists at an American laboratory have been brainstorming the same question for more than five years and have come up with a mind-blowingly different answer.

They call it Epoc, but when it is launched early next year in Britain and the US it will probably be known simply as the “mind-reading helmet”, capable, supposedly, of knowing what users are thinking.

The device is being hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough in the way that humans will be able to interact with computers. Its implications are massive, opening the possibility that one day people will be able to control everything from light switches to the cursor on their computer screen simply by thinking about it. However, for now, the technology will be used as the ultimate gimmick: to play computer games simply by thinking your screen character into action.

Emotiv Systems, the San Francisco company that has developed the technology, says Project Epoc could mean the end of joysticks and keyboard bashing. Instead games players will be able to visualise a move in their head and that move will be replicated on the screen in front of them. So, for example, Harry Potter could be ordered to cast exotic spells, or a jedi might exert “the force” to fling his enemies around – all through the willpower of the gamer, with no buttons pressed.

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Jade Raymond hints at co-op mode in Assassin's Creed 2

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) is an awesome game. If you agree with the previous statement, then you'd probably be interested in finding out more about the game's development and what we should expect on Assassin's Creed 2.

We previously posted an article on the first part of the interview where game producer Jade Raymond talked about Assassin's Creed. In the second part of the interview, she mentioned that the biggest thing they cut out from the game was multiplayer co-op. Interestingly enough, she hinted that this feature might be in the sequel of the game.

We're pretty sure that you'd rather be hearing all the juicy facts about the game from the lovely Jade Raymond herself, so we're not going to spoil it for you. Head on over to GameTrailers through the via link below to watch the interview.

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