The most famous games which inspired producers to make film versions of them.

Well known “Mortal Combat” (1990-s). One of the best famous fighting games ever been created as well as one of the most violent computer games. It is a first game where real actors were playing roles. In 1995 there was released a first movie under the name “Mortal Combat”. Combining eastern mythology and martial arts it had a great effect on public gathering many people in cinemas. Though, the second part of this movie made in 1997 totally failed. No wonder – it has kind of silly plot.
Legendary game "Doom" (1993) – has a quite simple plot: run ahead, change guns and shoot as much as you can. Such simplicity is a great chance for movie producer’s and script writer’s imagination, so everybody was looking forward to see an interesting gripping movie. Finally in year 2005 it was released. But what a disappointment was waiting for audience – it got failing grades of both critics and public. The Rock was nominated as Worst Actor in Razzie Awards.
Of course famous “Lara Croft” – two movies where screened Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). Both of them had extreme popularity due to of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft and hit plot of the game which very alike to Indiana Jones.
Movie “Hitman” (2007) taking roots and plot from “Hitman” game. Nameless agent 47 do not remember his name or anything about himself but has a tattoo “barcode” on his neck, working as a professional killer for International Contract Agency. Looking tough Timothy Olyphant played the leading role in this movie.
A good example of horror survival games “Silent Hill” served as a base for the same name movie (2006). А desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter goes to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash her daughter disappears. The mother is starting her search. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, she begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back. It became one of the most famous horror movies of 2000s. Game “Silent Hill” includes four parts nowadays so we should wait for the next part!
Still, I want to mark out “Alone In The Dark” (2005) which was based on the same name video adventure games. This movie won in two nominations “Worst Actress” and “Worst Director” in Razzie Awards. Two parts of “House of dead” which won “Worst Film” award. Three parts of “Resident Evil” based on video game where the leading role got Milla Jovovich and not a bad one.

Most famous logical games

Logical games – first of all they are addicting games when you start play – you long to get to the end, second – they develop logical thinking making certain good changes in our brains. You learn how to think!
There are a few logical gameswhich cross around the world became very popular in many countries. Let’s see the list of most popular of such logical and board games.
Mahjong (májiàng) also called mah-jongg one of the most famous logical board games that originated in China. It is involve skills, strategy, calculation and of course a lady Luck, includes elements of poker and Domino. The aim of player is to open pairs of cards with same pictures on.
Chess – almost all people in the world played chess once in life at least. Chess competitions took up a substantial place among other sport competitions. It is competitive game played between two players, also classified as a board game, because it is played on board in 64 squares of two colors. This game has Indian and Persian roots, though for thousands of years it was modified and appeared many strategies, new rules and classification of chess. In international tournaments famous chess champions like Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand earn millions of dollars!
Other famous logical game is a patience also called solitaire, which every of us has on the computer. There are many kind of patience exist nowadays of a quite similar character, but varying greatly in details. Solitaire is a card game played by single person. Microsoft and Apple include this games into system software package. Besides you can load different kind of this games from internet with no charge. It takes roots from a cartomancy. The objective of the patience is dealing cards from a shuffled deck into a prescribed arrangement on the tabletop by means of reordering them by suits and ranks. Each kind of solitaire has certain rules.
And of course Sudoku – Japanese puzzle game which was spread widely. The objective in this game is to fulfill a 9×9 grid (partially completed grid is given) the way that each column, each row, each of the nine 3×3 boxes would contain digits from 1 to 9 just one time! It is pretty hard, isn’t it?
This games and puzzles certainly will not harm you and your psyche. Opposite they will develop your logical skills raising IQ. Actually IQ test is a kind of logical game? Don’t you think? Plus most of these games are free in internet.

Interesting facts about games.

Show me the person who never played a game! Perhaps it is a one who doesn't know what means fun, though this article is for those who love games or at least think that he/she likes.
1. Many gamers know GTA - but not so many that aria of San Andreas in this game is 25 square kilometers - it's five times more then Liberty Sity.
2. The score record of all times in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.
3. Producers of Sega’s Space Channel 5 had a court examination with one lady, because of the character in the game was very alike her look - of course, she lost the hearing.
4. In the earliest version of Donkey Kong the name of Mario was Jumpman and he was a carpenter not a plumper.
5. First game with Easter Eggs is Adventure for Atari 2600; you could see names of creators in a secret room.
6. The guy who played James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2 passed casting occasionally, going with his daughter to another meeting.
7. Michael Jackson appeared in following popular games: Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Ready 2 Rumble Round 2, Space Channel 5 1 & 2, GTA: Vice City и Moonwalker.
8. Original CDs with FIFA 2001 smelled with grass.
9. The name of the game "ICO" in Japanese means "Let's go!"
10. The president of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime worked in Pizza Hut (this is what means "being smart"!)
11. Mario has no surname.
12. Lara Croft was planned to be Laura Cruz, though producers stopped on the second option.
13. As Entertainment Software Association says - the middle age of game players is 33 years old.
14. The source of inspiration for creating Katamari Damacy games was famous painter Picasso.
15. In 2001 a few students created a mechanism called "PainStation" which was pretty harmful for a body.
16. The voice of Solid Snake David Hayter wrote a script for the movie X-man
17. Supposaly the game playing of GameCube Animal Crossing can be prolonged up to 29 years.
18. Lara Croft got her big breast due to the work of designer Tobi Gard who increased it for 150% of original size - the rest of team supported this idea.
19. The voice of Chief in Halo is Steve Downes; he is DJ on the radio in Chicago.
20. The word "Nintendo" from Japanese can be translated like "leave your luck to the sky"
21. Now 24% of USA citizens after 50%. In 1999 it was only 9%.
22. Soundtrack for game Okami takes 5 CDs.
To be continue...
By now, just have some fun and play online games by yourself or with friends!

How does internet influence on elderly people.

Good news for all gamers! From a long time scientists are interesting in the influence of computer technologies on human brain's activity but mostly we hear about negative side like dependence from internet or game "fever". And rarely we can meet information about its positive influence on human brains.

Only recently they found out that internet search are positively influence on a brain's activity of elderly people, activating key centers of brains, which controls logical processes of mind. The most interesting fact is the regular internet search stimulates neuron actively of brain in those parts where it is detached while a common reading. Significant results of researches in this area give a hope to have a positive physiological effect and potential positive results from computer technologies in working with middle age and elderly patients.
The internet search can simulate brain activity, to train and even to improve its functionality. The simplest exercises of internet search (but regular) can increase brain activity even for elderly people. As you know - the ability of human brain to learn has no age limits.
They also found out that computer online games can decrease the danger on roads! How?
Recently one American company made an experiment: they sent one hundred thousand of game sets to clients between 50 and 75 y.o. Those PC games supposed to improve keenness of observation, to train memory, an eye sight and so on. The results were astonishing! 10 hours spent in playing similar computer games return the brain's sensitivity on 10 years back, including eye sight. So the common thinking that the human brain reaches it's peak and after with passing years getting weaker is wrong, because with some certain regular exercises you can keep your brains in a good shape.
Just like a body our brain needs regular exercises and care. Besides all what was said above - computer games improve a hearing, helps to get rid of fears, develop some skills for kids.
Though, "too much" is not good for anything, it concerns computer games and internet as well. To spend many hours every day playing computer games or chatting with friends will give an opposite result. So, know when to stop!

Strange achievements in video gaming field

Everybody knows about Guinness World Records book but not many of lucky guys can place his/her name into this book no matter how hard they try. Though some of people are really make incredible things in different fields of life. Anyhow online games (or video games) haven’t been considered till now.
Till then let’s see what we have:
The most spread character in video games is well known Mario which appeared in 116 different games not taking into account remakes.
The biggest number of players in multimode racing game was 132. All players where racing in TrackMania at once.
The longest sentence in the jail was given to Faiz Chopdat from UK in 2002 for playing Tetris on his mobile phone while the plain was in the air. It means, when you hear “please, turn off your mobile phone till the end of the flight” – so better do it!
The greatest number of item had to be collected to complete the game was in Donkey Kong 64: in total 3821. Players had to collect: 201 golden banana, 3500 colored banana, 40 banana medals, 20 banana fairies, 40 maps, 8 keys, 10 crowns, one coin Nintendo and one coin Rareware. Plus in this game there are endless number of banana coins, watermelons and earphones.
The smallest Tetris in the world – in Dutch Vrije University, on faculty of physics, with a help of microscope the game took place. Its’ teraminos were made of smallest glass spheres. The diagonal of each block was about only 1 micrometer!
The largest number of invectives was said during a game Quake III Aren which takes only one hour of playing. GVC team said 4397 invectives including a few round oaths which nobody ever heard before. They also used a whole box of computer mice, because they were hitting mice on the table each time when they are shouted.
The longest guidelines for games were made for the racing game Gran Turismo 4 in China and Japan. The pamphlet included 212 pages with catalogues of automobiles, introduction to racing physics and different professional advises.
The first game which inspired compositors to create a ballet was Dragon Quest. Please let me know if anyone saw this ballet, I wouldn’t mind to see as well!
May be the facts I was telling above will inspire you to create a new opera, a movie, to write a book or to make a new world record. Perhaps anyone thinks that he / she made a world record already playing online games or flash games or video games (it doesn’t matter) – please let me know!

Boon or bane?

90% of kids from 10 to 16 y.o. in USA spending around 20 hours a week playing computer games. This number just a little differ in Europe, Canada and Australia, where the level of economy is high than in South America and Africa for example. So we can claim that computer games are definitely influence on kid’s psyche, mentality and nervous system. And these kids are our future!
Buying computer every parent hopes that this advantage of high technologies will help a kid to develop good personal qualities, broaden mental outlook and finally to be well educated. Instead many youngsters prefer to play video games or online games in Internet! This point has both negative and positive sides, tough nowadays you cannot avoid the question: computer games are boon or bane?
First, let’s review negative aspects of video and online games. Virtual violence in these games may make kids more aggressive in real life. So experts do not suggest to play a kind of game where hunting down and killing people is the goal. Previous researches showed that after playing violence games for 3 months and more, behavior of kids is becoming more aggressive! So, dear parents, you definitely have to supervise what your child is playing on his computer. Otherwise there may be negative results, kid may start thinking that to kill, hit and kick other people is OK. We’ve heard a lot about kids where killing other kids. But not just online games are full of violence but TV and other media!
Though not taking into account “violent games” there are a few positive aspects we want to review. According to the recent research kids play online games regularly have better reaction time, visual activity and dexterity than kids who do not play games on computer. Games help children to identify things in a faster way, to develop skills in sport and business. The important feature of online games is sociability. I mean, being in USA kid communicate making friends with a kid from Japan or Europe. It heightens a level of culture and social activity excluding possibility of negative complexes appearance, which is of no small importance for future life of a kid. So, the games are boon or bane – just for you to decide! But for sure, being parents you have to supervise what your child is playing or watching. It depends from your responsibility and care which results you’ll get.

Traditions to celebrate a birthday in different countries

The birthday is a most favorite holiday for all children, when all the attention is only to a hero of the event. So we will talk about birthday traditions in different countries. Traditions to celebrate a birthday vary from continent to continent, from country to country, let’s see what kind of traditions different nations have:

Asia:

I guess in China, a birthday is a best day of a year, because most families has only one child last time due to demographical reasons, so all the attention of parents and guests is to a kid. Though all kids are obliged to show a respect to his/her parents. Like, for example, girls must help in cooking and boys in house keeping. Normally noodles are invited to wish a child a long happy life.

Children of Japan have a largest number of holidays. Besides a birthday they has special holidays for girls and boys separately, holidays devoted to a certain human age. The born of a child is the most important event in life of the family. I would like to emphasize that the most important birthday dates of a child are 1, 3, 5, 7 years like 60 and 70 for olderly people.

In Vietnam, unfortunately, they do not recognize their individual birthdays, but use to celebrate it at the beginning of the New Year.

In Korea the most significant birthday is called “tol” and celebrated on the first year child’s birth. It includes certain traditions like a kind of fortunetelling, when people are trying to guess about the future of a child. They place things on the table in front of the child and let him to choose one of items. When he or she will grow up – he will get a profession or skills depending on what he or she chose. This popular old tradition has a place nowadays and has spread to other countries.

Africa:

In South Africa people are following an old tradition: a presentation of a key made of aluminum foil or silver, or even gold, given by parents at age 21. It is suppose to be a symbol of a child’s readiness to unlock the door to his/her future.

In Europe the birthday celebration is quite similar thing, though each culture has a special zest:

For example, in Denmark, a flag is hoisted outside a window symbolizing the birthday of the house owner or someone who lives in. To make the child feel happy on birthday parents place all gifts around the bed while he/she is sleeping, then he/she can see them immediately upon awaking.

The special birthday dates in Holland are 5, 10, 15, 20, and 21 – on these birthdays the boy or girl usually gets great gifts. And, of course, living in the country of Flowers – parents decorate the kid’s room, tables, chairs with beautiful flowers and balloons.

We can keep talking about birthday traditions in different countries as there are more then 200 countries in the world, not talking about nations or national groups.

Still one or the integral parts of each birthday all over the world are a birthday cake and birthday cards. We wish you every your birthday to be better then the previous one gathering many devoted friends and relatives together!

Here you can find best birthday ecards and printable birthday cards!

The world of flash games for casual users of Internet.

By statistic around 45% of users are surfing in Internet without a special aim, trying to get some entertainment. The life like a speed train is running ahead involving us into to hurricane of events. And when a time of vacation comes or unexpected illness keeping us staying at home, or school holidays, you may get bored from abundance of spare time. The human nature is venturesome, willing for entertainment and to raise adrenalin. Online games is a good instrument to satisfy this nature without loosing money, without odd risks, without bad after-effects they relax your intense mind, giving rest to your thoughts emotions and body, taking away amassed stress. Flash games won’t ask you to think much; they don’t have high demands to your computer hardware, but immersed you into a virtual world, the world of fantasy where everything is possible.

Well, online games are more and more popular and there is many game portal which offers thousands of games, but high quality games is only a quarter of this mass. We’ll talk about GamezHero portal, with many quality games divided into categories. It has quite simple interface understandable for users, easy controls in games, and no need for downloading plus it’s a free service. We’ll review some of categories.

Action games contain many free addicting games for your choice like Dynamic Double team based on Batman comic’s characters, where playing a Batman and Blue Beetle you will challenge Kanjar Ro’s space pirates saving an entire planet from possible distraction. Straw Hat Samurai is a unique fighting; crazy racing in Dream Racer made in 3D graphic and many others.

If you prefer to play games by yourself – no need for registration, just load a game and go ahead. For multiplayer mode you’ll have to pass a simple registration.

Arcade games – interesting game: Look out, Mr. Johnson!, where actually you are the ghost help to your friend in his adventure by… eating people. Well know Sonic Xtreme, where you should avoid the cankerworms; Batman series: “Batman. The cat and the bat” where you challenge a Cat woman, who stole your utility belt, fighting the robotic lions.

Many more interesting games like races, games for girls, puzzle, and sport you will find here.

One more plus of multimode online games is that you can find friends, just someone like you – casual user of Internet, and who know they may became your real friends.

Wrath of the Lich King

Wrath of the Lich King: World of Warcraft Windows Edition

Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight — World of Warcraft's first Hero Class. Create a new Death Knight character with a starting level of 55 and break the chains of the Lich King to forge your own destiny. Power your way through new quests and dungeons as you seize ever greater abilities. Assault the terrifying Wrathgate, war in Lake Wintergrasp, uncover the secrets of Dalaran reborn and much more.

You've turned the tide against the demonic evils of Outland. Now the Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that will lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the undead legions of the Scourge threatening to sweep across the land, you must strike at the heart of the frozen abyss and end the Lich King's reign of terror for all time.

The difference of this edition are the ff:

• Lay waste to destructible buildings in your path

• Battle to Level 80 and power your way through new quests and dungeons as you seize ever greater abilities.

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight.

• Command mighty siege engines to bombard your enemies.

• Discover the harsh, icy continent of Northrend, the bleak heart of the Lich King's empire of undeath.

Here are some sneak previews:

Free Online Games, Downloads and Lots of Arcade Games For Kids and Adults

This will be my very first post so I want this one to be remembered, especially by all the free online games addicts. As I was studying my first move, i decided to have it as light as possible. I want a useful post for all free arcade gamers, both adult and kids/children.

I got here list of free online games. These list are free arcade games for children and adults.
Hope you enjoy the fun playing these online games.

Here is the list of free online games.

• http://www.freegamesforyourwebsite.com/
• http://www.net-games.biz/
• http://www.funtasticgames.com/
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
• http://www.game01.info/
• http://www.fishflashgames.com/
• http://www.gamesoid.com/
• http://www.dailygames.com/
• http://www.y8.com/
• http://www.w3games.org/
• http://www.gamepuma.com/
• http://www.arcadetemple.com/
• http://www.onlineflashgames.org/
• http://www.pcgame4fun.com/

I hope you enjoy the list.. I will be more pleased if you post your replies...

Thank you guys.. Play games!!! Play Arcade Games!!

Light Bot Walkthrough

Light Bot is a fun puzzle game. Simply 'program' your robot to move to each of the blue squares and light it up. You need to learn to be efficient, but each you get two functions along with the main program to play with. So, it's just a matter of learning how to put those repeatable steps into the functions and use those when you can.

If you get stuck, there's a walkthrough below. If you want to try it on your own, play Light Bot at armorgames.

WALKTHROUGH: DO NOT READ BELOW THIS LINE IF YOU WANT TO DO IT ON YOUR OWN!

In each level, your program consists of three sections. The Main, function 1 and function 2. The programs you can put in are left, right, forward, light, jump, function1 and function2. I don't claim this is the most efficient to any of the levels, but it will get you by.

Level 1:
Main program: Forward, forward, light
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 2:
Main program: Right, forward, left, forward, forward, forward, forward, left, forward, light
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 3:
Main program: Forward, jump, jump, forward, light, left, forward, light, forward, light.
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 4:
Main program: Forward, jump, jump, forward, right, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, light.
Function 1:
Function 2:

Level 5:
Main program: jump, F1, F1, jump, jump, jump, light
Function 1: Forward, forward, forward, light
Function 2:

Level 6:
Main program: F1, right, F1, light, jump, right, F2, right, right, F2, F2
Function 1: forward, jump jump
Function 2: Forward, forward, forward, light

Level 7:
Main program: F2, light, right, forward, right, light, F2
Function 1:forward, light, forward, light, forward, light, forward, light
Function 2: F1, F1

Level 8:
Main program: Jump, forward, light, F2, right, F1, F1, F2, right, F2
Function 1: F2, F2, right
Function 2: Forward, forward, light

Level 9:
Main program: Jump, left, jump, F2
Function 1: jump, light, forward, light, jump, light, right
Function 2: F1, F1, F1, F1

Level 10 (I found this to be the hardest one):
Main program: F1, F2, left, jump, right, F1, F1, F1, F1, left, F2, F1
Function 1: jump, jump, jump, forward, forward, forward, light, right
Function 2: left, jump, left, jump, forward, right, jump

Level 11:
Main program: F1, jump, right, F1, jump, right, F1
Function 1: F2, F2, left, jump, left, F2, F2, right
Function 2: Light, forward, light, forward, light, forward, light, forward

Level 12:
Main program: Forward, jump, light, F1, F1, F1, F2, light
Function 1: Jump, light, Jump, light, jump, light, right
Function 2: Jump, light, jump, light, jump, F1, F1, F1

Applicate ver.0

A new game from the creator of the Grow series is out and it's called Applicate. Very short simple game of dropping apples. There's no directions, but it's not that hard to figure out.

The objective of each of the five levels is to get an apple eye guy (see the image... the apples with eyes in them are apple eye guys) to the door. Every time you click on an apple that is already on the screen, you take a bite out of it, dropping a new apple where the arrow is currently located. If you drop an apple on an uneaten apple, an apple eye guy will appear.

Keep in mind, he will always try walking to the right first. You may need to block his way to get him to turn around and go back to the doorway.

It sounds weird, but the graphics are as good as always. If you need any hints, ask below in the comments and I'll try to walk you through each level.

With only five levels, this is a short game to play if you're interested.

Play Applicate Ver.0 at eyezmaze.

Brute Wars

Brute Wars is a pretty good RPG game just released on kongregate. Pick your team of brutes (animals) making sure to balance your magical prowess as well as your brute force. Then get out there and conquer the castles in an attempt to reach mount Asio.

Really, the story line isn't all that exciting, nor is it all that pertinent to the game play.
Just put together the best team you can. You'll have to take into account several different factors to advance.

First, there's a front and a back line. Keep your power hitters up front, and your distance hitters in back. But if someone's taking a beating, it's helpful to have another power hitter to switch in for him.

You only get so many actions a turn, so replacing someone in the front line may use up all your actions for a turn. Later on in the game, you'll have more actions per turn to play with, making it easier to switch men in and out.

The gameplay is not intuitive, so read through the directions.

Magical spells are stronger if you have more of the same type of character (water, fire, brute, etc...) But it also makes it more likely you could go up against someone who's in a great position to hit you in your weak point. I liked to balance things out more.

You can replace some of your characters by getting to a shop and buying a randomizer. That's the only way to get shadow creatures. This option will not be available right away.

You can travel back over spots you've already fought for to engage in random battles and build up points to buy food, syringes (to wake up those dozing creatures -- they've been knocked out) and randomizers. You also need the points to buy the upgrades (treasure chests on the map).

Play Brute Wars at kongregate.

Meet In Ver.0 Walkthrough

The famous author of the Grow series is back with a new game after a prolonged sickness (I'm glad to see he's feeling better!). The new game, Meet In, is like his other puzzle games, but also unlike them. It's cute, short and fun, but definitely has the same feeling to it as his other games.

For a complete walkthrough, look below, but in the meantime, go play!

Play Meet In Ver.0 at eyezmaze.


Walkthrough

In the first box, I'm going to label this one dad. The second box (top right) is going to be mom. The bottom left is baby and the bottom right is kid.

Move the baby onto the blue button. Mom is now free to move down into the hedge maze. Move her onto the button at the bottom of the maze.

Switch to dad and move him onto the moving platform that mom just engaged (just head south in the hedge maze). Move the baby onto the other button on it's screen to move dad to the other side.

Move dad to the right and sit on the bottom of the two buttons to change the stone maze the kid is in. Keep switching the stone maze back and forth and moving the kid around until he is free and in the upper left corner. Move the kid up until he steps on the orange button to remove the orange square for dad to pass through.

Dad can step on the green button to remove the green obstruction from the kids way. Have the kid step on the purple button to remove the purple block from the baby's way.

Dad, kid and baby can now enter the room with MEET on the floor. Place each of them on their respective color to allow mom to enter as well. Switch to mom and bring her in and put her on the final T. You Win!

The Life Ark

A point and click adventure, the Life Ark puts you in charge of developing life on a planet. Develop life through fire, water, alien life forms and big old teapots.

Like Grow, Warbears and Sprout, the objective is to click on the right things in the right order. The actions will take place automatically and you will soon have a green and lush forest along with all the animals (two by two) on your planet to enjoy. But if you click on them in the wrong order, your trees will die off, your little helpers (men) will pass out from the heat, and basically you'll just have to reset and start over.

That is, unless, you were willing to use the walkthrough below.

Play the Life Ark at freeworldgroup.

Walkthrough

Click on the tablet (in the middle of the ground). Choose the right symbol. Note the small circles or triangles or spots or whatever it appears to be that move around the card as you move from card to card. Just complete the pattern. An outlet appears where the tablet was.

Click on the cord hanging from the cloud to get it to start moving. When it's over the outlet, click on the cord again. Click on the outlet. When the cloud gets charged up (turns black), click on the plug to release it.

Click on the cord again to move the cloud over the rock in the volcano. Click on the rock. Click on the door in the mountain. Hit the button in the center until both disks have the fire at the top.

Click on the fire (left side of volcano). The cloud may have floated around. Move it over the mountain again. Click on the steam clouds (circles) floating up.

After the cloud absorbs enough water (turns dark gray), move the cloud out over the pond. Click on the pond to dump some water.

Click on the trees to get an apple to fall. Click on the cave. Click on the apple to get the man to eat it (apple of knowledge). Click on the man (his head) to turn it into an radio signal.

When the spaceship arrives, click on the cave again. Click on the river to get the new man to move the water over to the plant to help it grow. Click on the plant to climb up and get the blue gem.

Click on the fire to change the teapot into another UFO. Click on the picture of the UFO. Click on the read teapot, then on the hatch on the boat. Solve the puzzle (similar to the first one).

Success!

Warlords: Call to Arms

Warlords is a strategy war game that just isn't all that strategic. Build your army one guy at a time and send him across the board. The bigger your guy is, the longer it takes for him to be sent. The number of men (or demons or elves or ...) you can build is very impressive.

Unfortunately, as I already said, this game isn't that hard to beat. Here's how to do it in 4 steps

1) Always choose the hardest level to beat. While it may make sense to beat the easier levels first, it actually makes it harder in the long run as the difficulty increases with each level. Buying upgrades is nice, but not key to winning.

2) Set your options to auto release. Either that or get used to holding the space bar down.

3) Send 95% of your guys along one row (as you can see from the picture).

4) Select charge when you can.

And that's it. You'll beat every level by overwhelming that one row of attackers. The only exception is when you face off against the troll giants, as they can stomp right along that one row. In that level, just send your speediest guys along every row (in other words, spread out your attack).

By beating the harder levels first, you'll have an easier time completing the game at the end.

I had fun playing this game, it's too bad I figured out such an easy way to beat it. Playing as the demons isn't all that different from playing with any other race, so I'm not sure how much of a
reward they are.

Play Warlords: Call to Arms at kongregate.

Boxhead: The Zombie Wars

Boxhead, that zombie shooting series has it's fifth game out and this one just keeps getting tougher and better. In Zombie Wars, you have more weapons, more zombies, more of everything waiting for you in this shooter.

This game is tough. The number of zombies quickly gets out of hand. You need to learn how to react quickly, strategize (barrels, barricades, etc...) and more within the first few levels or else you will be dead and buried before you know it.

There are plenty of battlefields to choose from, but it all comes down to your reaction time.

Play Boxhead: the Zombie Wars at kongregate.

Update: Now that I've played this game for a few weeks, I have a few pointers and tips. First, the basics.

There are two scenarios as you start out. On the left side is the basic, and on the right side is defense. They are the same game, it's just the 'defense' is how things should look for you after a five or six rounds (if only a little bit neater). You have a defense set up, with turrets and barricades. You also have access to some more weaponry (as if you had worked your way through the earlier rounds).

The difficulty ratings also place you further along. It's as if you start off at round 10, instead of round 1. You have access to more weapons, but the demons are already out to get you. So if you're a newbie, place at beginner until you can get past the first few rounds. Then up the difficulty. It's as if you're restarting at a later level.

Scenarios. The scenarios don't really matter all that much to me. Different landscape doesn't really affect gameplay all that much. The smaller the field, the faster you have to deal with the hordes that come upon you. Also, you don't want to get trapped behind your defensive bulwarks, so the direction they come at you isn't all that important either.

Basic walkthrough strategy: Set up a defensive perimeter using turrets and barricades. Place more turrets and barricades as you can. Replace those that fall. Other than that, stay outside of your own perimeter and blast away. If you stop for even a moment, the devils will flame you to death. It only takes two quick shots from them to finish you off. Plus, you need to get out there and pick up the boxes to restock and replace your health. With a good defensive perimeter, you can last for a very long time. Once I have a good setup going, the only reason I lose is because I end up setting turrets around myself, trapping myself.

Barrel laying is great. If you start laying out barrels in a trail behind you and set them off (or they get set off by the turrets or by the devils), you can lay waste to hordes at a time. It's also great as a more offensive weapon. Once the barrels are placed behind you, they can set off the next one in line (sort of like dominoes). If you keep running ahead and placing more barrels, you can basically charge into a crowd and clear them out with explosions.

The minigun is great at clearing out a line, but I find it hard to select it. Instead, I usually use the barrels then the shotgun (once it's been sufficiently upgraded). The air strike is fun (it will clear the whole screen). The handgun is actually quite useful for a while, but won't help once it becomes too crowded.

Even More Bloons

In case you didn't get enough out of Bloons and More Bloons followed up by Bloons World and then by Bloons Tower Defense and Bloons Tower Defense 2, now Ninja Kiwi has released Even More Bloons for your entertainment.

Aim with your mouse, and hold down the left button to set the power. One nice addition is the last shot (power and angle) will be shown so that you can adjust accordingly. One annoying things is how the clouds float by, making it harder to judge where you left your last shot when you have to try again. The later levels can be very, very tough to complete.

I'm not going to post a walkthrough for this one in the comments, but you can certainly ask me if you get stuck anywhere. I'll be happy to help you out, as long as I've figured out how to do it.

I find Bloons to be very frustrating, but I keep going back for more. How about you?

With more bloon types and more levels to work your way through, if you enjoyed Bloons, you will enjoy Even More Bloons at ninjakiwi.

Grow Nano vol 3 Walkthrough

Asking for forgiveness, the creator of the Grow series has released a small and easy Grow game, Nano Vol3 for us to enjoy.

In this Grow, you are trying your best to heal up the main character who has been injured. Click on the six items to help him out. If you do it in the right order, the items will be maxed out.

So, what are you waiting for? Go enjoy it!

Play Grow Nano Vol 3 at eyezmaze.

I'll post a walkthrough in the comments below.

Vector TD 2

If you played Vector TD or TDx, then you've played Vector TD 2. In other words, it's not really worthy of it's own review, other than to mention a couple of changes.

There are more types of games, with a normal, time attack, lightning and a puzzle/sandbox mode. Normal mode sends out the creeps as per normal. Destroy each wave, then set up for the next wave. Time attack keeps sending creeps out. Your objective is to keep going as long as you can. Lightning speeds up the vectors (creeps) and the puzzle/sandbox mode gives you 50,000 to start with and two bonuses, but that's it. In other words, you can try out various strategies for each of the new maps.

There are new maps to conquer, and if you liked Vector TD you'll like Vector TD 2 because it's the same game. I guess since they called it TD 2 I was expecting more, but ...

Play Vector TD 2 at candystand.

Protector Tower Defense

Protector tries to be a RPG and Tower Defense Game rolled into one. While it doesn't really succed at being an RPG, it has enough elements to make it a very good TD.

Place your units throughout the board to stop the oncoming hordes. Let too many get by you and it's lights out. Place your units wisely and you can win any board. Place them poorly and you're sure to lose.

There are five basic units red (splash damage), blue (slow), green (poison), purple (electrocute: debuff), and dexer (high damage land based attach). There are four more advanced units: alchemist (splash damage, land only), archer (high damage against flyers, but not land), necromancer (high damage, but based on number of kills) and paladin (high damage land attack).

Your units earn XP based on how many times they attack and do damage to an enemy. You can't level a unit up unless he has enough experience, adding a new twist onto the level up/money equation. Because of that, it may be a good idea to build up the back of your maze first, then start building up the front. Otherwise the units in front will get all the xp and the ones in back will be very inexperienced in the later rounds.

There are two basic types of enemies: flyers and land based. Keep in mind that dexers and paladins cannot hit flyers.

Basic strategy involves a lot of red mages, with a green mage and/or a blue mage near the entrance. Keep in mind that effects are not cumlutative, so it's not worth stacking a bunch of blue mages. Also, don't put a lower level green in front of a higher level one, because if an enemy unit is still being affected by the lower level mage, it won't take on the higher level mage's effects.

When leveling your units up, you can choose to level up their special attack (recommended at least first two or three levels, otherwise you don't have the special attack) or the general expertise (much stronger basic attack).

Once you beat a map, you can get skills such as lower cost of units, more damage, faster learning (more xp), etc... You can always reset the skills you have chosen, which means you can try building up a superarmy of red mages, then try a more moderate 'spread the skills around' strategy without any penalty. Your skills also unlock the more advanced units.

All in all, this is a pretty good TD game. It can be slow at times, but with many maps (I haven't worked my way through all of them, yet), you should be able to find a map you find challenging. It is probably worth working your way through the easier maps (medium level) first, allowing you to build up your skills for the harder maps.

Play Protector at Kongregate.

Update: It seems a lot of people are landing here looking for a FAQ, walkthrough, or some details on the more advanced units. If you have a question, leave a comment. I'll try my best to answer it.

Multball Madness

Multiball madness is a mindless time wasting fun game from armor games. Simple game play with addictive "I can do better than that" will get you playing again and again.

Simply keep your paddle under the balls and clear out the path ahead. Reminds me of breakout, but not quite. More like juggling madness.

The longer you last, the more balls will appear. The only way to die is to run your paddle up against a block, so be careful. It's more important to keep as many balls flying around than it is to aim any particular one.

Play multiball madness at armorgames.

Filler

I've been playing Filler for the past few days and despite it's simplicity, I'm still having fun. The objective is simple enough, fill in 2/3 of the box with your balls and you get to move on. Get hit by the balls flying around and you lose a life. Lose too many lives and it's game over.

To play, hold down the left mouse button. A 'filler ball' will begin to expand at that point until you let go of the button. Don't get hit by the 'flying balls' (ever play jezzball or qiz?). You can move your filler ball around by moving the mouse around while it is expanding.

If your filler ball hits another filler, it will stop growing. Walls do not stop the growth, while the flying balls kill it off. (I think the flying balls hit the filler balls too soon. It can be very frustrating, so err on the side of caution.) Once the filler ball is finished (you let it go), it will drop down to the bottom of the screen. The filler balls are not static and will bounce around, or be pushed off to the side. It's very hard to build up a 'wall' that you can work behind. It can be done, but it's not easy and it really isn't worth trying since the wall will just fall down a few moments later anyways.

Another tactic may be to just build hundreds of small filler balls until you get to the 66.6% mark, but you only have a limited number of filler balls to make. Once you run out, the game is not over, but you lose a life for every ball you create from that point on, so it's not a great strategy.

Instead, try to make your filler balls as big as you can when you can. Smaller filler balls can be used later on in each level to fill up those spaces, or just to make room. A great strategy is to work in the upper corners. Create a ball, let it drop away and then start making a new one. The first one you built will act as a shield allowing you to build the second one. As long as you wait a moment for the first one to start dropping away, you should be fine.

Play Filler at Kongregate.

Flash Element TD 2

Normally, when I'm disappointed or bored after a few minutes, I don't post about a game I've been playing. But given that this is a tower defense game and I normally like these games, I'm willing to talk about Flash Element TD 2, even if it is disappointing.

Like most tower defense games, your job is to place towers along the pathway to fire down on the creeps as they pass by. Your objective is to protect the goal, whether it's a castle or a city or whatever. This time, you're protecting your elements, the objects you need to build the towers in the first place.

There are five elements (green, purple, yellow, red and blue) that you use to build your towers (arrow, splash, sniper, fire and ice, respectively). If you've played other tower defense games, you understand what each tower does. There are two levels of towers for each element. The second level is a whole lot better, but they are also a lot more expensive.

Once placed on the field, each tower can be upgraded to level 5 allowing it do more damage (or slow the creeps down more). Each tower also has the ability to build up experience (up to level 4), giving it a slight edge.

There are 50 levels on the easy map. The best part of this game is the quips the creeps give just before they come forward and just after they die (I like the 'meep meep' from the yellows). After each level, you get interest payments, so you should try not to spend all of your money.

You can also sell your towers at 100% buy back, but only in between levels. If you sell them during the fight, you can only sell them at 80%. Which means you can totally redesign your tower placement in between levels at almost no penalty (you lose the experience your towers build up).

But despite some changes in the game play (experience, being able to sell the guns at 100% buy back in between levels), I felt bored. The levels weren't that challenging. It seems the creators want you to play again and again in an effort to build your score up. After playing Flash Element TD, I expected more from the sequel than what we've been given.

Play Flash Element TD 2 at casualcollective.

Warbears: An A.R. X-Mas Walkthrough

Warbears, an A.R. X-Mas Adventure lets you take charge of the Warbears once more, but this time it's serious. Kla is on a shopping adventure and Steve is on a mission to pull the ultimate prank.

Like the other warbear adventures, this is a point and click adventure with a little bit of wit and weirdness thrown in to keep things interesting. Click on anything and everything to work your way through the adventure. Don't forget to open up your inventory (top left) and combine the various items and try them out on other objects to move along. If you get stuck, there's a walkthrough below:

Play Warbears: An A.R. X-Mas at warbears.com



Walkthrough (Spoilers below!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Pick up the gift. Click on the fur scan on the far right. Go talk to Bob. Click on the fur scan again.

Go up and grab the batteries and the neon wires. You can't find the wires, though. Open up your inventory and click on the present. Click on the goggles and then on Kla to put them on. Click on the goggles (up in the inventory) to turn them on.

Click on E-dude, then on find item. Grab the wires.

Cut Scene

You are now Steve. Open Kla's wallet. Grab the taser and the BTE map. Give both to Bob (one at a time) to buy them. Go outside. Go to the far right to go off screen. Click on the bank (green highlight on the map).

Walk into the bank.

Play as Kla. Click on the far left to get the red thread (behind the cliff). Click on the blue thread (looks like a box to me?). Click on the virtual tree across the way. Talk to e-dude and get him to cut down the tree.

Grab the green thread after it bounces out of the tree. Go up the cliff, then jump down onto the tree. Head on over to the right side.

Play as Steve. Leave the bank screen to the right. Click on the park.

Talk to granps. Try Plan A and Plan B. Click on the locker. Look at the circuit panel. Head back to Bob's shop.

Talk to Bob: click on I want to order and choose the nuclear device. Open up the toolbox while Bob's gone (Be quick about it). Repeat the process (order another nuclear device) to get Bob out of the way long enough to grab the screwdriver. GO back to the park.

Open the circuit board with the screwdriver. Use the taser on it circuit. Talk to granps and select plan c. Use the taser on the circuit again. Head on over to the bank and talk to granps.

Go back to Bobs and grab the hacking device. Give it to Bob to purchase it with your reward money. Use the hacking device on the door upstairs (panel next to the door). Go in the door.

Play as Kla. Place the threads into the boxes below the tree in the following order (red, green, and blue) as the tree lights up in those colors.

Play as Steve: Pick up the wires, batteries and neon lights. Connect the wires to the neon lights. Connect those to the batteries.

Kla defeates the evil spirit of X-mas. Click on Get out of here.

The end (or is it?)