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There's something for everyone in this week's Link Dump Friday! Assuming, of course, you're the sort of everyone who enjoys warping letters, doing unspeakable things to wildlife, and lasers. Well, who doesn't?... you say you don't? Well, then how about a swig of some magic star juice or a stay in a suspicious hotel? Perfect for what ails you!- • Canufit
- • Mushroom Madness
- • Armored Ashura
- • Hotel Subura
- • Feeling Fancy
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Unify went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Then Harbor Master saw it and was all "Nuh-UH" and pushed it back down. Covered in dirt but not dismayed, Unify called his pal Mr.AahH who suggested they go to the water fountain instead. They did, and they saw Squareball on the way there, and everybody lived happily ever after.- • Unify
- • Mr.AahH!!
- • Crush the Castle
- • Harbor Master - Ep5: Monster Cove
- • Squareball
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When wacky games and serious, heartfelt games coexist, one never knows what could happen. This edition of Weekend Download pairs the decidedly quiet, thoughtful non-game Do You Remember My Lullaby? with two loud, zany platform action games. Why? Because we can!- • Do You Remember My Lullaby?
- • FallOver!
- • Duck Fight
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Four of out five people agree, Link Dump Friday is the link dumpiest of the Friday link dumps! An additional six out of five recommend Link Dump Friday for all your link dump-y needs! (And for your weekly dose of made up statistics!) This week: Scuba diving teddy bears, dragon riders, robots, and much, much more! Well, if "much, much more" can mean "an additional two games".- • Zombie Farm
- • Skyfyre
- • Bloat
- • Hover Bot Arena 2
- • Teddy Goes Swimming
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Just about every imaginable genre of video game has appeared on the iTunes App Store, from first person shooters to hidden object games and beyond. The kind of game I feel performs best on the system, though, are simple puzzle games, the kind you can pick up, play for a few minutes, then try it again later in the day. Want examples? I hereby order you to scroll down a bit!- • Memovator
- • Copy Cat: A Painter's Puzzle
- • Alphabetic
- • Green Fingers
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This edition of Weekend Download happens to be Weekend Download number 101! That means we've featured roughly 400 games since February 2007! Exclamation mark! To celebrate, today's article features five free games, enough to keep you busy for hours on end. It also features an extra amount of love, but if you've been following WD since the beginning, you knew that already, didn't you? AWWWW!!!!- • Paul Moose In Space World
- • Solar Plexus
- • Onslaught of the Electric Zombies
- • Rock Warrior
- • Cave Bounce
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This special edition Link Dump Friday is dedicated to bite-sized games. Contained herein are a few odd games that go outside the box and bring us gameplay elements we've never seen before, or are presented in ways that stun us... but they're unfortunately too short to justify a full article for.- • Perspectite
- • Viewpoints
- • Pixeloids4k
- • Twitch
- • CutCopyPasteGnome
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Come on down to Crazy Jay's Link Dump Friday! We've got so many games we're positing them for free! And why? Because we're craaaaaaaaaaazy! We got your haunted hotels, we got your vicious diseases, we got your boss battles and much, much more! So come on down to Crazy Jay's Casual Gameplay this Friday and let us hook you up with the gaming experience of... well... someone's dreams! Have we mentioned we're craaaaaazy? Because that's really important!- • Cave of Wonders
- • My Pet Protector
- • Expedition Africa
- • Diepix Arena
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Massive puzzle game overload! Gah, it hurts us, precious! From the unique and original Ynth to the physics-oriented Enigmo 2, there's something for every brainy gamer to enjoy. Unless you're really bitter and grumpy, in which case, I suggest eating an ice cream sandwich. No one can be grumpy while eating an ice cream sandwich.- • Ynth
- • Geared
- • Enigmo 2
- • iEscaper
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It's a weekend of Ludum Dare! The solo game development competition sends people on a quest to create a game from scratch in 48 hours based on a theme. The results are always interesting, though don't expect a long and polished product from two days of work. The theme for the most recent Ludum Dare competition was "caverns".- • Beacon
- • Broken Cave Robot
- • NICE CAVE!
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This week on Link Dump Friday! The weird, the deep, and the deeply weird; games that either make you think or make you blink. Featuring aliens, flaming heads, and time traveling donkeys. Just another day at the office here at Jay is Games!- • Time Donkey
- • Ergon/Logos
- • Dadgame
- • Saunavihta Yetis
- • Run
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An old Flash favorite hangs in balance while a few word games keep your iPhone fingers busy this week, along with most excellent Skabooki, a game that's eaten many hours of my life away with its simple but elegant construction. That darn voodoo doll is just so cute!- • Levers
- • Skabooki
- • Word Solitaire
- • Bookworm
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Remakes, revivals, and retro-styled games are the stars of this edition of Weekend Download. We've got that tasty old school gameplay philosophy, primitive pixel graphics, and a penchant for minimalism all wrapped into one.- • Minima Bomber
- • Tasty Static
- • The Thing with 40 Eyes Girl
- • Tango Strike
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This week on Link Dump Friday! A star studded lineup of thrills, chills, explosions, erasers, hamburgers, and more! It's more exciting than an afternoon at the theater, and without all the guilt from the four pound bag of theater-sized M&Ms you just ate. No, we're not judging. We've been there, too.- • Hungry Shapes
- • Mine Tower
- • Enigmata
- • Paper War
- • Bomb Diggity
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Aaaaand we're back! This edition of Mobile Monday teaches us that spiders eat bugs and spin webs, bell-bottoms are necessary to "ride grooves", and it's perfectly acceptable to swing around the city with an infinite supply of rope. Tell your parents, they'll be proud!- • Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor
- • Electric Box
- • Rope'n'Fly
- • Mevo and the Grooveriders
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Aah, I love the smell of flat, shapeless pixels in the morning! And four-color screenshots in the afternoon. And any combination of the above at any time of the day.- • Bombie Zombie
- • BOOM
- • Broken Brothers
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We've got work to do this week, dear reader! There's monsters in the garden, turtles that need launching, and things that need to be set on fire! No, there's no time for games in this week's Link Dump Friday! They may look like games, but they're backbreaking labor! Just get to work, post-haste! If you're quick about it, there's an extra penny farthing in it for you, there's a good chap. Pip pip, and so forth.- • Pyro II
- • Turn Based Battle
- • Toss the Turtle
- • Cronus X
- • Flix
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Just like milk, cereal and toast make for a delicious breakfast, a math-based shooter, a retro platformer and an emo arcade game make for a scrumptious Weekend Download. Seriously, try it with butter or ghee!- • JiroSum
- • Tower of Heaven
- • Why
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Peanut butter and bananas! Cheese and crackers! You and Jay is Games! These are just a few of our favourite combinations. This week on Link Dump Friday, we explore some lesser known classic combinations you may not be familiar with, but will still find just as delicious. What's classic about a ninja and a UFO, you ask? EVERYTHING.- • Must Pop Words
- • Ninjufo
- • Dig Droid
- • Kinpira
- • Semantic Wars
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So many games, so few breaks during the day to find an excuse to play them! The iTunes App Store is heating up with some of the best game offerings its ever had. First I Dig It stole my heart, now Space Invaders and Dungeon Scroll threaten to do the same!- • Space Invaders: Infinity Gene
- • Dungeon Scroll Gold Edition
- • Minigore
- • DropSum
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Normally, I'm not much of a shmup fan. Three of the four games featured below, however, happen to be shooters. And I happen to have enjoyed them. Which is neat! Sure, they're decidedly less "serious" than most games in the genre, but still, you shoot stuff, so that counts, right?- • Little Bee
- • Skull Daddy
- • Attack of the Deadly Mutant Fishies
- • Carpe Universum
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This week on Link Dump Friday... story time! That's right, boys and girls, grab your teddy bears, your footed jammies, and your offerings of pizza and chips. Today we explore the rich ancestry of great King Casual Gameplay, with such fine traditions as the side-scroller, the platformer, and the art of goofing off on Fridays. Hurray!- • Ninja
- • Regrowth
- • Hop the Gap
- • The Competitor
- • Vogon Training
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We have three very strong iPhone games to showcase this week, and as you can see, I sort of went overboard describing one. :-) Some developers have really settled into this interesting new gaming platform, and each game below flaunts that in its own unique way.- • I Dig It
- • TowerMadness
- • DrawRace
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It's TOJam time! The Toronto Independent Game Jam #4 was held May 1-3, with participating teams producing 37 games! Below are just a few of our favorites. Be sure to check out the TOJam 2009 games page for other unique titles.- • Spirit Guide
- • Alpinist
- • Category 5
- • The Ascent
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This week on Link Dump Friday, we give thanks. Thanks to aliens for always trying to steal our cows. Thanks to robots who help us succumb to the beat. Thanks to bunnies with eerily photogenic smiles. And thanks, most of all, to the men, women, and alien hive-minds of the casual gameplay industry for bringing us games and not enslaving our race. - • Photo King
- • The Way of the Exploding Cow
- • Puffball Hunter
- • Frobot
- • Demolition City
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OMG IT'S SPACE ACE! We've come a long way from starry-eyed kids standing in a sticky-floored mall arcade drooling over the beautiful images on the screen. And you could "play" the game! With just a quarter! Now a pile of those quarters will buy you the game outright, a portable version you can have and hold and cuddle all the day and night long. Sticky, candy-covered floor optional.- • Space Ace
- • Nine Gaps
- • Blue Attack!
- • Triazzle
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Games exist to expand your mind, train your reflexes, broaden your appreciation of all things— naaah! I'm kidding, who cares about all that stuff, amirite? Really, most of the games we play exist just so we can have fun. And that's exactly what we have on this edition of Weekend Download: three tiny, simple games to deliver a bit of mindless fun.- • Tanaka's Friendly Adventure
- • Alexitron's Journey to Learn GML
- • !Xorpl
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Frogs! Peg-Beasts! Angry spirits! Mutated scientists! What do they have in common? They're all super adorable! Trust us, they are. That's why you don't want to miss this week's Link Dump Friday, home of the weird, the adorable, and the adorably weird. Just like nature intended.- • Froggy Feast
- • Kahoots
- • Wonder Bounce
- • Red Ball
- • Me vs Earth
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Some classic games from several platforms have made their way to the iPhone, making pull-out-of-your-pocket-and-play much easier than before (laptops aren't so pocket friendly). Vector Park has finally dabbled in the iTunes App Store, and a familiar Facebook game also makes its iPhone debut. OH! And there's Worms!- • Acrobots
- • Surfacer
- • Bumper Stars
- • Worms
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Ohhhhh, sometimes I can't get enough of that old school retro-styled CRT TV in the living room playing games when I'm supposed to be learning my multiplication tables goodness! An incredibly low-res Quake-inspired game is a heavy dose of nostalgia, but pile on top of that a short Lucas Arts-style adventure game and an unofficial sequel to a near-forgotten NES title, stick a Post-It note on the front, and you've got a recipe for a relaxed weekend.- • Heed
- • Kung Fu 2
- • QQUAK
- • Post I.T. Shooter
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This week on Link Dump Friday: "They want me to do WHAT?" Be awesome in a helicopter, blast water at helpless roly-poly critters, defend a forest using heavy artillery, and more! It doesn't have to make sense to be fun! In fact, we highly recommend a daily dose of the nonsensical, the ridiculous, or the just plain weird.- • onFire
- • Water Werks
- • The Last Mech Druid
- • Sparks and Dust
- • Party Boat
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The iTunes App Store just turned one year old, bringing over 13,000 games to mobile players who like to keep their fingers busy smudging their handheld devices. Of course, not all of those games are worth your time and money, which is why Mobile Monday highlights the best of the best each week. We'll play the duds, you just go and have fun!- • Mystique. Chapter 2: The Child
- • Jimney Chimney
- • Enviro-Bear 2010
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The Experimental Gameplay Project has returned! Originally started by Kyle Gabler and Kyle Gray, the site encourages rapid prototyping of new gameplay concepts in a short period of time. World of Goo began as an experimental game called Tower of Goo, so you can see how much creative potential an idea like this has.- • Bunny Blaster
- • Frobot
- • Proto Shooter
- • Egg Worm Generator
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This week, Link Dump Friday encourages you to forget the past, don't worry about the future, and live in the moment! Incidentally, this moment contains evil militant teddy bears, how not to behave as royalty, a lesson in pityin' foos, and more. In fact, the only thing better than this moment will be next week's moment! But for now, let's just cherish the time we have together and... wait, you're playing games, aren't you?! Are you even listening? *sigh*- • Mr. T Versus the Sushi Tank
- • Save Our City
- • Queens
- • Cyber Recession Warrior: Edgar
- • Fngrz of Fury
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Paper, aliens, and scary things that jump out at you and go "BOO!! WAAA HAHAAA!" dominate this edition of Mobile Monday. Come to think of it, that sounds like the last family reunion I went to. Including games: Mystique. Chapter 1: Foetus, Paper Toss, and Evacuation.- • Mystique. Chapter 1: Foetus
- • Paper Toss
- • Evacuation
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Our goal is to bring you only the games that are worth playing, meaning most of these titles are left in the forgotten realm of Didn't Quite Make It land. This is especially true with downloadable games, as it's a bit more of a commitment to buy a game than just click on a link and play. Some games look good, play well, and are entertaining enough to be featured, but for one reason or another they just didn't make the cut. Here are a few games that are, by all rights, excellent titles to play, but for one reason or another didn't quite get their own review.- • DinerTown Tycoon
- • Kitten Sanctuary
- • Pahelika: Secret Legends
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Painfully difficult retro gaming time!!! Three platform games on this edition of Weekend Download, each one doing its part to remind you just how bad you are at playing games. Until you play the same part a dozen times, then you're awesomely talented!- • Holdover
- • Ninja Robot Winning Gameshow
- • Gray & Green
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This week on Link Dump Friday, toast, bouncing balls, pixels, jigsaws, and herds of kittens combine to form... uh... something... really awesome! We got yer puzzles, we got yer platforms, we even got yer action adventure! Don't we take good care of you? Now... what did you get us?- • Pixa Fixa
- • Summertime
- • Toast of War
- • The Rather Difficult Game
- • Fat Slice
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A big bunch o' arcade games have been assembled for this week's Mobile Monday. It was actually really easy to gather them, too. All I had to do was put out a bit of arcade bait and they came a-runnin'...- • Wild West Pinball
- • Knights Onrush
- • MUST. EAT. BIRDS.
- • Star Trigon
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It's the weekend!!! That means you have a little extra time on your hands. That means I get to take away some of that time with a handful of free games. That means you get to have fun on your weekend. Don't forget to mow the lawn, though.- • Space Exploration: Serpens Sector
- • Bitfortress
- • Tombed
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This week in Link Dump Friday: the arcade! Bastion of fun and hope for young and old alike in an urban wasteland? Or secret lair of an ancient race of mole people from deep within the earth's crust? Unless you tune in this week for plants, turrets, swords, and more, you may never know. And Jay will get all the high scores to himself. We can't have that, now, can we?- • Plant Pong
- • Yan Loong Legend 2
- • vel.shock()
- • Puristic Rotation
- • Balloon Headed Boy
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An iPod full of diverse games on this week's Mobile Monday. My personal favorite happens to be TonePad. Mostly because I like messing around with sound without, you know, actually accomplishing anything or learning real musical skills.- • Diorama
- • Kaloki Adventure
- • TonePad
- • Trains
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This week, we'll take a look at the finalists in the 2BeeGames Indie Game Competition. Out of the six, we have previously featured two: Auditorium and Bumps, and the other is technically not a download Buccaneer Battle. Here is a quick rundown of the remaining three amazingly deserving titles. You like to vote, right? After playing these games, go vote for your favorite!- • Storm
- • Save the Planet
- • Heresy War
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Catapults, coins, carts, and a bus game that doesn't have anything that begins with the letter c! You might say these things have nothing in common. I say, there's no time for your sass! Link Dump Friday is happening right now!- • Panda's BIG Adventure
- • Symphonic Bus Tour
- • Quest for Power
- • Oran
- • Hover Kart
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While I'm a big fan of retro games, developers have yet to convince me that a touch screen is an adequate replacement for a physical controller. With a touch screen you get no tactile feedback, and I feel that ruins many iPhone games. This week we have several titles whose controls are better without d-pads and buttons. And believe me, that's a tough fact for me to admit!- • Diabolika
- • Go Go Rescue Squad
- • Stackus
- • Moonlights
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All three games featured this week seem to be a bit on the chilling creepy eerie ominous side of things. Nothing like hordes of zombies leaping from behind locked doors, more like quiet, haunting environments that are suspiciously empty but filled with cautious intrigue...- • The Mirror Lied
- • Takishawa is Dead
- • Somnia
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This week on Link Dump Friday, we're going to flex the awesomest muscle of them all. The BRAIN. All the cool kids are doing it!- • Turnz
- • The Factory
- • Cat Gets 100 Stars
- • Cat Cat Watermelon
- • Vector Effect
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Big game developers continue to flock to the iTunes App Store to offer portable versions of some of their best-known games. Electronic Arts is no stranger to any gaming platform, and some very recognizable titles can now have a home on your system. The prices aren't always as friendly as they could be, but sometimes it's worth a little extra cash to get the glitz and glamor a large studio can provide.- • The Sims 3
- • Trivial Pursuit
- • EA Sudoku
- • Cannon Challenge
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This edition of Weekend Download makes me hungry. Hungry for TOAST! It also, by extension, makes me want to ride on the back of a sheep, but that's a completely different thing, innit?- • Type Fighter
- • De Toren
- • Toast Boy
- • Sheep!
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This week's Link Dump Friday appeals to your warm, fuzzy, nurturing side. Also the side of you that really just likes explosions and claps like a seal whenever something goes BOOM. You'd be surprised how similar they are!- • Choose Your 2012
- • Ultimate Tactics
- • Slimey's Lunch Time
- • Warzone Tower Defense
- • Wild'n'Free EX
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Musical games dominate this edition of Mobile Monday, with two of our four features emphasizing rhythm and reflexes over any other gameplay mechanic. Also weighing in is the hefty game Zenonia, an RPG that claims a full 40 hours of 16-bit-style role playing!- • Zenonia
- • World of Tunes
- • lilt line
- • Platypus
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Something for just about every type of gamer in this edition of Weekend Download, including a few titles heavy on exploration (one with a grappling hook! :-O ), a psychedelic shooter, and an experimental art game complete with vomit!- • Ivory Springs
- • Kaivo
- • Storm Assault
- • The Gutter
- • Squid Yes, Not So Octopus: Squid Harder
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A witch, cheese fiends, some goop, a bounty hunter, and the raddest hair you have ever seen walk, ooze, and fly into a bar . . . No, wait, that's not right! It's Link Dump Friday!- • NooBoo Mary: The Witch Queen
- • Oozing Forever
- • Galactic Stampede
- • Run, Bobby, Run
- • Invention Suspension
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Ooh, now here's something special! Six independent iPhone developers have joined together to offer seven word games for just 99¢ each! From speed-based spelling games to quirky word/picture combinations, there's no shortage of iPhone wordery to be had. The sale lasts through May 31, so get grabbin' while the grabbin's cheap.- • Imangi
- • Moxie
- • Stitch'em Words
- • Word Squares
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TIGSource has long been a focal point where independent game developers congregate, and its recent TIGSource Cockpit Competition inspired several dozen programmers to craft over 40 fine games for our playing pleasure. The following are the four winners as chosen by votes on the TIGSource forums. Aah, independent games, how we love your rampant sense of freedom and unchecked creativity.- • Enviro-Bear 2000
- • Okkuplektor
- • Star Cannon
- • Vector Locust
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It's Career Day here at JIG, which means we've assembled some of the best jobs the internet has to offer in your browser! Yes, we know you've dreamed of being under the sea, barbering, and freshly baked goods. Don't be shy. Your future awaits! Or at least some really neat flash games. Hey, dynasties have been built on less, and usually require more work.- • Fathom
- • Funky Samurai Kengo-Chan
- • Mr Mullet
- • Cookie Tycoon
- • Cosmic Cannon
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A few old games made new populate this edition of Mobile Monday. Namco is releasing a choice few of its classic arcade games on the iTunes App Store, one of which is Galaga! EA is also jumping on the retro bandwagon with Lemonade Tycoon, a mobile port of the original Shockwave game that made mixing lemonade the cool thing to do.- • Peggle
- • Fnurgletoe
- • Galaga REMIX
- • Lemonade Tycoon
- • Bebot: Robot Synth
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With the review of Tom Sennet's "When The Bomb Goes Off," last week, a grave realization came to hand: our site is tragically void of Cool Moose games! This travesty is now rectified. Thank you and have a lovely day.- • RunMan's Monster Fracas
- • Crush!
- • Acwabatiacs
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This Link Dump Friday features something for everyone. If by "everyone" we mean "people with varied, discerning tastes and really great hair". Say, that's you! Especially if you like fast-paced platforming, sequels, physics, and dungeons. And really, who doesn't?- • Survival Lab
- • Necropolis
- • Savior Tower Defense
- • Red Moon
- • Perfect Balance: Playground
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Monkeys with balloons, kids with slingshots fighting off zombies, an ultra-powerful hero who runs around blasting giant bugs and making dents in the earth, and, erm, a number-linking puzzle. This, ladies and gentlemen, is your typical Mobile Monday.- • PathPix
- • Kids vs. Zombies
- • Caster
- • Bloons
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This edition of Weekend Download is brought to you by: Platformers. Platformers, making you run, jump, stomp, dodge and run (some more) to the exit for almost 30 years!- • Crazy over Goo
- • Dad Would Be Proud
- • Portals thru Dreams
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It's meta puzzle time! Several words in this edition of Link Dump Friday have an extra letter floating around. Find them, gather them, and arrange everything in the correct order to spell something very important!- • Meeblings 2
- • Nevermore 3
- • Epic Battle Fantasy
- • A Crow in Hell 2
- • Ragdoll Goalkeeper
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It's a huge dose of nostalgia this week on Mobile Monday. Developers have been porting classic games to the iPhone/iPod Touch for some months now, and two of the latest to hit — Myst and Wolfenstein 3D — practically gave birth to their respective genres. I remember when running either of these games required a top-of-the-line computer. Now my music player can run them!- • G
- • iso
- • Myst
- • Wolfenstein 3D Classic
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The introduction to this weekend download has been stolen by a ninja and replaced with a depressed bubble. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you happen to see a ninja, please attempt to stop him and ask for this paragraph back. That would be very much appreciated.- • Ninjah
- • Plobb!
- • Ten Ton Ninja
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Naming your pet can be a difficult decision. Do you go with something cute like Fuzzy, Furface, or Mittens? Or maybe something average and unassuming like Cat or Dog? Just yesterday I met someone with a pet rabbit called Tundra, which I immediately declared to be the most awesome rabbit name ever.- • Shaper
- • Apple Kabopple
- • PicPie Puzzler
- • Drift
- • Powergolf
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Wanna know what I did this past week? I grew flowers. I slithered around tiny planetoids. And I hurt my head messing with number puzzles. Oh, and I made a pie, but that has nothing to do with the games below.- • Seek 'n Spell
- • Flower Garden
- • Snake Galaxy
- • Numbrosia
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This edition of Weekend Download is dedicated to cells. No, not the kind you find in prison, the kind you find right here, inside your body. The squishy little things surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. How about a hand for cells? All 100 trillion of them!- • The Mushroom Engine
- • Madhouse
- • Gate 88
- • Pandaland
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How much thought do you put into laundry detergent? I mean, really, is this one of your great concerns in life? Do you wake up in the morning and worry if you made the right decision on aisle ten in the grocery store yesterday? Should you really have gone with that off-brand stuff? Was saving a little cash really worth putting your clothes at risk? Well... was it?- • Visible
- • Germz
- • Guesstimation
- • The Line Game: Orange Edition
- • Spinning Bubbles
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If you're a fan of strategy games, we've got a real treat for you this Monday. Both KDice Trainer and UniWar tackle the genre from different angles, the former adopting a casual-friendly stance while the latter isn't afraid to get serious with unit management and tactics.- • KDice Trainer
- • UniWar
- • Totomi
- • Cosmic Nitro
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This week, three of the four games featured come from the development group Free Lunch Design. Why? Because one of their games turned this writer onto the world of free games and further to that, in all its history JIG has featured just one of their games. What better way to say, thanks for all the lost time spent playing, then to shine a bit of light on their highlights.- • Icy Tower
- • Frog Hunt
- • Zombiepox
- • Gate
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The following text was taken directly from the pages of my super-secret diary. Less of a diary, more of a journal. Not so much a journal, now that I think about it, sort of a captain's log. Complete with stardates!- • Robo Riot
- • Best Friends Forever
- • Volcano
- • Mighty Red Orb of Eternal Power (with three little white balls gravitating around it)
- • Jump 'n' Rolla
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Several major casual gaming franchises are still making their way to the iTunes App Store, including the fan-favorite Virtual Villagers series! I'm pleased to report the miniaturization has gone surprisingly well, so if you had a hard time tearing yourself away from Virtual Villagers before, good luck resisting the temptation to pull your iPhone out of your pocket... - • Flight Control
- • Virtual Villagers 2: The Lost Children
- • WordJong
- • Flood-It!
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This week, word skills and paint skills will go head to head in a dazzling array of visual and wordy deliciousness. In the left corner we have the book smarts, with knowledge of words and quick thinking. In the other corner, painting, featuring brushes, stamps and a burning desire to see a creative vision realized. It's the author vs. the auteur in this weeks... Weekend Download.- • Cuba Letra
- • Tux Paint
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Sort of a shooterey, retroish, trance music-like Link Dump Friday theme this week. Or is it an old school-style trancey shooter musical theme? Either way, most of these games kinda sorta lean against one or more of those concepts. I guess. Right? Well... hmm. Aah forget it, I'm going back to making music with Tone Matrix.- • Hero's Arms
- • Tone Matrix
- • Pwong
- • Retroshoot
- • The Par Box
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We're back with more iTunes App Store gamery! Two of today's titles are iPhone ports of their bigger casual cousins, one a full-fledged downloadable game, and the other a browser-based adventure. Each one adapts extraordinarily well to the small screen and touch-only interface, and it's surprisingly handy to have them in portable form. - • Submachine
- • Ancient Frog
- • geoDefense
- • Azkend
Games Featured:
You like old games, right? Games that were made before everyone had a computer in their home. Or games that were made last week and just look like they came out of the decade that brought us Prince, Trapper Keepers, and rolled-down socks. Simplicity knows no age, of course, and that's just what these games strive for in one way or another.- • Annie Android
- • You Probably Won't Make It
- • Assassin Blue
- • Ping Pong!
- • House Globe
Games Featured:
Fact: the flu virus can live on ordinary objects for days. Solution? Never touch anything. Ever. In fact, your eyes may be absorbing the flu virus by reading this page. You don't know whose nasty, diseased vision has already seen what you now see. It's gross. Ew. I'm going to the decon chamber now...- • UNCF
- • Fish Tank
- • Kinetikz 3
- • Hive
- • Turbo Tanks
Games Featured:
The 11th annual Independent Games Festival awards were announced just a few days ago, and you'll be happy to know the Mobile category was filled with excellent iPhone games. Even better, we've already featured most of them on previous Mobile Monday articles! Check out the iTunes IGF Mobile page to see where the spotlight is currently shining.- • Kyper
- • Fieldrunners
- • Drop7
- • Radio Flare
Games Featured:
What, no theme this week? Actually, there is. The theme is... uh, eclectic. Meaning a collection of things which just happen to go together because I say so. Enjoy this weeks partially themed Weekend Download!- • Pac-Man Physics
- • King
- • 30 Second Hero
- • Zombie Holiday Prologue




