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Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • SteamBirds
  • • Smurf's Village
  • • Word Micester
  • • Sir Lovalot
There are three things in this universe you cannot ignore: a zombie apocalypse where the zombies are part ninja, part robot, and on fire, free bacon, and a game release with not one but multiple all-star developers working behind the scenes. And SteamBirds is the latter, so practice your non-ignoring skills today!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Octodad
  • • Snakes of Avalon
  • • Maze of Space
Confession: every writer behind the scenes at JIG is secretly some kind of mollusc. We hide it quite well, wearing suits and blazers and little thingies in our hair. But when you watch us walk, you start to wonder if something's a bit off. When you see us dance, you're sure of it.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • 60 Second Life
  • • Giraffe Got Game
  • • Bird Pax 2
  • • Pig Detective
  • • Monkey and Secret Army
This week on Link Dump Friday; crime-solving pigs, laser-shooting giraffe, giant crabs, card-playing birds, and the strangest animal of all... humans! It's a lineup featuring everything from point-and-click puzzles to fast-paced arcade action with a little addictive multiplayer card playing in. You're bound to find something to start your weekend off right!


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • Combat Heaven
  • • Pod Panic
  • • PixelHugger in the Field of Typography
They say that games are like cheese - they get better (and smellier) with age. I've got some excellent vintage games in my little corner of The Vault, and you're free to enjoy them...once you get past my nefarious gauntlet of traps! I've got pits, hungry tigers, mimes...my depravity knows no bounds.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Flee
  • • Alchemy Classic
  • • My Personal Memory Trainer
  • • Gravity Lander;
A little alchemy to go with your high-speed car drive out of town? Maybe you're more the brainy type. You know, the kind that goes to space with other cosmonauts, vacuums the shuttle while some all-powerful being guides you to the surface of alien planets. Either way, we've got you covered. Provided "covering" you means providing you with Android games. Which, well, that's how we meant it, so... there!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Light Arrow
  • • A House in California
  • • Great Migrations
Time for stuff! With the notable exception of Great Migrations, the games in this edition of Weekend Download seem to be dominated by white on black landscapes. Old school throwback or conscious atmospheric design choice? To that question I answer: yes!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Tree Fender
  • • Supermax
  • • Tetravalanche
  • • Snow White: Dark Curse
  • • Underworld Army - Episode 1
I got sunshine on a cloudy day... when it's cold outside... I got the month of May... Well I guess you'll say, what can make me feel this way?... Friday, Friday! Talkin' 'bout... Friday! Link Dump Friday, that is! This week we bring you giant purple monsters, angry golems, twisted fairy tales, and maximum security prisons. Awww... almost enough to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, isn't it?


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • Gold Miner
  • • Fishy!
  • • Geosense
This week's Vault contains some real oldies-but-goodies. Browse through an assortment of classic addictive gameplay as you mine for gold, eat some fish, and top it off with a sprinkle of geography. It's all there for your recommended daily gaming consumption!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • WackyLands Boss
  • • Linkoidz
  • • No, Human
  • • ChuChu Rocket
There's sort of a general spacey, puzzley, anti-human thing going on in this edition of Mobile Monday. It certainly wasn't planned, of course, there just happened to be several games released at about the same time that included, you know, things that hate humans and let you play as them. Honest!

Happy Halloween 2010!From all of us here at JIG and Casual Gameplay, we wish you a very happy and safe (and scary!) Halloween 2010!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Sp.A.I.
  • • Dear Agent
  • • Eternal Dusk
  • • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Hey, you, weekend gamer. You want I should share games with you? You want they should be uh, fun? Good. Because I have games that are fun. RPG fun. Puzzle fun. Lasers fun. Lantern fun. What? You think lanterns are no fun? You think "flashlight.app" is more fun? Hmm. You need to play with lanterns more often, I think...

Link Dump Friday: <br />Halloween Edition!
Games Featured:
  • • Undead Highway
  • • Vorago
  • • Graveyard Maniacs
  • • Pumpkin Remover 2
  • • Werewolf
It's a special themed edition of Link Dump Friday, bringing you all the treats and none of the tricks for this Halloween season! Featuring a medley of seasonal games that range from scary to simply cute, you're bound to find something to get you in the mood for the upcoming holiday. (No, we're not trying to butter you up to bring us candy... why would you think that?... but is it working?)


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • The Telephone
  • • The House
  • • Safeplaces
"Will you step into my vault?" said the joye to the JayIsGames readers. And there she stopped, because the idea of attempting to parody the entire poem was the scariest thing she'd heard of this Halloween season. Nothing else could compare. Certainly not these three games. Nope. No disturbing underbelly to any of THESE games. Just pure, innocent Tuesday goodness.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • The Manhole
  • • UFO on Tape
  • • Go Native!
  • • Tibia ME
More games, more diversity! This week's edition of Mobile Monday has you chasing UFOs, competing in popularity contests, and listening to bad poetry from pigs wearing armor. We dare you to claim you're bored!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Magnesian
  • • Super Crate Box
  • • Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch
  • • Dustforce!
What's the most entertaining household object you can think of? Did you say "wooden crate"? Or, perhaps, "magnet"? "Broom"? You probably did, and since you did, you are rewarded with games that use said entertaining objects to provide even more entertainment in a digital, computerized form.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Squawk
  • • Temple Glider
  • • w00t Fish
  • • Stray Cat
  • • Yura&Myu Escape 1
This week on Link Dump Friday we take a look at some of our friends from the animal kingdom. From mummified birds to pirate parrots to fish whose only desire is to submerge themselves in gooey pink fluid, we've got a fresh batch of video games that showcase animals doing what animals do best; being complete weirdos.

You Are Games: Babylon Sticks Caption ContestWe're offering up a caption contest in which you get to fill in the caption for one James Francis' Babylon Sticks comics, made especially for us here at JIG. So roll up your sleeves, put your funny tinfoil thinking caps on and jump start the braincells. It's caption contest time!


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • Wake-up Calls
  • • The Museum
  • • iSketch
  • • Levers
This week from the Vault we revisit a few games that excel in the area of artistic expression. Flash and other browser-based games have truly emerged as an art-form unto themselves, and it's a pleasure to be able to share some of our favorites that embody the creativity, heart and soul of developers who create browser-based casual gameplay.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Game Dev Story
  • • Cut the Rope
  • • Stoneship: The Curse of a Thousand Islands
  • • Shibuya
One day, I will release an iPhone game. It will be a game about writing articles about iPhone games. You'll have to play a ton of games, try to manage your rage when yet another burp/bikini/fart app appears, and cry tears of joy when something original appears. After selecting your games, you'll sit down and compose an article complete with gorgeous screenshots and flowery prose as an introduction paragraph. When you're finished, you can make a game about writing iPhone game articles in the game and start the process anew. It will be the greatest, most infinite iPhone game ever!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Inside Job
  • • Sanctum
  • • Remaddening
Fooling around with the titles of this week's selection of games, I discovered something unusual. If you rearrange the letters, you can create the phrase "a decarbonised djinn met musing". Now, that may seem a bit random on the surface, but if you think about it (especially if you're a djinn who has had his carbon removed), you'll either go mad or realize it's kind of a funny thing. But, whatever... GAMES!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Professor Spelunkington
  • • The Search for WondLa
  • • The Roomz: Eclipse
  • • Battle Shift
  • • Get Home
This week on Link Dump Friday, delve deep into caves for money and love, solve a series of ridiculously difficult puzzles, take on an ever-changing boss, and more! It's one of the most varied installments in your favourite Friday JiG feature to date, with platforming, point-and-clicks, puzzles, action, and even art.


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • Kao Fu-Sen
  • • Peasant's Quest
  • • Tork
This week from The Vault, we bring you a selection of games bearing the most important quality you can hope for; weirdness. From a girl whose head decides to float away, to a peasant who doesn't smell like he should, and more, we've got all the strangeness (and all the fun) to make your week right, and all straight from The Vault!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Cubes
  • • Buka
  • • Amtalee
  • • Glow Puzzle
Simple action and puzzle games have long been the staple of gamers, especially in the early days of computing. The Android platform is obviously getting stocked by coders who grew up in this era, as the marketplace is packed with simple, engaging games that strip excess content away in favor of pure, unfettered gaming.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Space Funeral
  • • Cell.Protect
  • • Streemerz 2
Video games have existed for so long, game parodies have begun to take hold. Those parodies have been around for so long, they're morphing into full, respectable games. Those full, respectable games are aging quite nicely, producing subtle bits of gaming candy like Space Funeral below!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Summit
  • • PC.DEfense
  • • Ragdoll Spree
  • • Halo 2600
  • • Haiku Hero
This week on Link Dump Friday; zen poetry, life-or-death dwarven platforming, an Amiga in distress, and more ragdolls than you can shake your whatever at. It's a veritable smorgasboard of internet delight, and it's all for you!

Interactive Fiction Competition 2010The 2010 Interactive Fiction Competition is here! Yes, the competition that brought us such interactive fiction classics as Violet, Lost Pig, Floatpoint, and Slouching Towards Bedlam is back with 26 new games, 23 of which can be played in the comfort of your browser. Voting will end November 15, 2010, so get your votes in now if you want to help choose the next winner!

The 'Build Your Own Bundle' Contest Winners!It's the winners of our 'Build Your Own Bundle' contest!


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • Mystery of Time and Space
  • • Replicator
  • • Motherload
It's Tuesday, so it's time for another installment of The Vault, your guide to some of the brightest gems we've showcased in the past. This week, we feature games from three different popular genres with a spacey-type theme that fans shouldn't miss; arcade, escape, and puzzle.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Time Crisis 2nd Strike
  • • Bit.Trip Beat
  • • Leap Sheep
Oh happy day! It's tough to resist a classic arcade game making its way to a mobile phone. So, no resisting took place and Time Crisis was immediately obtained. Another excellent game makes the transition from non-mobile to mobile this week, and it's another one you should allow temptation to get the better of resistance and obtain!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Gobber Assault
  • • Zymo
  • • Pheon
We've got three very special games for you this weekend! Special because they're all retro in style, but also special because they're really good and can be played over and over and over again and still provide loads of fun.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Gearlock Episode 1
  • • Evolution
  • • Romeo and Juliet
  • • Whale of Noise
  • • Escape the Ladies Room
This week on Link Dump Friday; artsy whales, pandas and cavemen, historical romance, and a survival guide for public facilities. We've got you covered in every emergency! You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to pilot an airship, but the next time you're bombarded by pirates, you'll be ready for them!


Tags: blog, browser, thevault

The Vault
Games Featured:
  • • The Asylum
  • • The Dark Room
  • • Nanaca Crash
It's the inaugural edition of The Vault, a brand new weekly feature designed to highlight some of the best games we've come across in the history of JayisGames. This week we bring you one of the best (and craziest) launch titles the internet has ever known, a surprisingly emotional point-and-click puzzle about an asylum full of toys, and one of the most beautiful puzzles you'll ever come across.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Pocket Frogs
  • • Red Card Rampage
  • • Beyond Ynth
  • • Knightfall: Death and Taxes
PENALTY! You have been caught pocketing frogs with the intention of carrying them beyond the borders of Ynth. Go straight to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. You lose all AP for this round. Bad player, BAD!

The 'Build Your Own Bundle' Contest!It's contest time! Want a free Indie Love Bundle? 'Course you do! Come up with your own creative kind of "bundle" and leave it in our comments. We'll choose ten winners to receive a load of free indie games!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • The Hive
  • • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • • TimeStill 2
  • • Cenfinity
More games to help your weekend be more weekend-ey than ever! The first item on the list will keep you occupied for several hours, a somewhat rare thing with games of its quality. The rest are great for short spurts or long marathons, whatever helps you get the best score!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • iZZi
  • • Stonepunk
  • • Neco Touch
  • • Dreamgate Escape
  • • Jabberwocky, The Shepherd of Slimes
This week on Link Dump Friday, we submit to you a variety of cute titles for you to coo over, and one absolutely, ridiculously cheesy-scary horror escape game designed to make you spill coffee all over yourself. We do this because we love you. You'll thank us one day.

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #9!We are pleased to announce the next Casual Gameplay Design Competition! For CGDC #9 we are teaming up with our friends at Electronic Arts' EA2D studio and asking that you design a game around this theme: FRIENDS. You may use any browser-based technology platform you are comfortable with (Flash, Unity, Javascript/HTML5, etc.)! Please read the official competition announcement for all the rules and details.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Trap!
  • • Missing
  • • The Elements
  • • Fruit Ninja
How about some more Android games? Several great time wasters in this edition of Mobile Monday, including a release anyone who has ever played a Flash game will recognize: The Elements. Gotta love playing with lava on your phone!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Fail-Deadly
  • • Unarmed and Dangerous
  • • The Lair of Fungal Wonder
  • • Isolation
Another Ludum Dare, another bunch of cool experimental games to play! This competition's theme was "enemies as weapons", and each entry did something slightly different with the concept.

The Indie Love BundlesThe Indie Love Bundle has returned bearing a total of twelve great indie games for a great price! You've only got a week to choose which of the three bundles you want!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Naked King
  • • Hanger
  • • Guy of My Dreams
  • • Seer
  • • Rescuebot
What do you need this week? We've got you covered, whatever it is!... as long as it's a naked king, bodily trauma, devils, rubber duckies, or robots. We figured that covered all possible bases.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Dead Runner
  • • Monster Dash
  • • Cave Run
It's a bunch of running games! It seems that after Canabalt came along, speed-based dashing games became a staple genre. There are tons of Canabalt clones around, but these titles do something a bit different than just let you hop over rooftops.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Jables's Adventures
  • • L'Abbaye des Morts
  • • PlasmaPig
We've been fortunate enough to receive a number of big indie releases these last weeks, but the "even more indie" small devs aren't sitting on their hands, as evidenced by the games below. Behold, free awesomeness!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Yet One Word
  • • The Deeplight Expedition
  • • Porch Escape 2
  • • You MIGHT Get Nervous
  • • Elude
This week on Link Dump Friday, we take you into a journey of your deepest, darkest subconscious!... or maybe an evil labyrinth. Or perhaps into the sky!... Or maybe just your front porch. Platforming, puzzling, twitch-gaming and ornithology abounds!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Minim
  • • So Long, Oregon!
  • • Dark Nebula 2
  • • Mishap: An Accidental Haunting
You know that feeling you get when you play one game for a really long time and it's kinda weird playing another game for a change? I did that with Dark Nebula 2. Couldn't help it, it's a trap of addictiveness. Careful!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • MADRIS
  • • Infinity Bit
  • • Tales of Unspoken World
  • • Under the Garden
A Game By Its Cover competition has ended, all the votes are in, and the games are ready to play! The competition asked artists to craft cover art for imaginary games, then the programmers stepped in and made games based on the art. We've already featured a few of the contenders in the competition (Cat Poke, 8:Capsule, Dot Order Tie, and Love Letter), so below we'll highlight a few other favorites from the competition.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Dream Tower
  • • Stitchland Conflict
  • • AliBaba 40 Thieves
  • • Onslaught
  • • Fish
This week on Link Dump Friday; airstrikes, Santa Claus, little blue critter thingies, dragons, and... fish! Well, we wanted to make sure you got your brainfood somehow. We worry, you know!

CGDC8 Press CoverageI just want to take a moment out of our regular review schedule to thank a few sites who were gracious enough to review game entries from our Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8. It would be really nice to see this list expanded upon for future competitions.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • My Paper Plane 2 (3D)
  • • Galcon
  • • Choice of Romance
  • • Andoku Sudoku
  • • Laser Reflections
So many new Android games, so little time to play them all! Here's a protip for you: instead of social interaction, try an Android game! Cell phones are already wonderful tools for spurning your pals, so why not ditch the implied SMS communication and have some fun?!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Sugar Cube
  • • Mr. Blocko: Super Tournament Edition
  • • Alex Adventure
CUUUUTE games this week. So unabashedly cute. Sugar cubes and tiny block guys. Squeaking mushrooms and elevators that play elevator music. Ohhhh, I'm gonna burst with sugary sweetness.


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Tags: blog, browser, linkdump

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Treadmillasaurus Rex
  • • Love Trampoline
  • • The Birdinator
  • • Up Down Ready
  • • Sugar Rush
This week on Link Dump Friday; games of reflexes, puzzles, and arcade action! We all live on a love trampoline... in space... with the tooth fairy... and MC Hammer... and a cyborg bird... and a t-rex on a treadmill. I don't know about you, but that was actually my aspiration when I was five years old.

And the winner is...Our 8th competition today comes to a close and we are here to honor all of the games that were entered, as well as award a few prizes, too. The "sandbox" theme provided a formidable challenge, while one entry captivated and moved the casual games community with its multiple rooms filled with puzzles and, of course, sand.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Meow Meow Happy Fight
  • • Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box
  • • Arachnophilia
  • • The Screetch
Words cannot describe the unusual pairings of games in this week's Mobile Monday. Time-traveling cats? Happy hungry spiders? Vampires? Sentient balls of goop? What was wrong with us when we assembled these games?!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Momodora
  • • Nudo
  • • Cat Poke
  • • 8:capsule
Pop quiz! The fact that there is now a game about poking cats is: A) Awesome or B) AWEsome. Your answer will greatly influence your future. Think carefully.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Pussycat Frenzy
  • • Victorian BMX
  • • Journey of Bugzy
  • • The Climb: Light
  • • Interlude
Wakey-wakey, true believers. The weekend is almost here, and we have just what you need to make your Friday a little more tolerable. This week on your Link Dump Friday; kitty-cats, bmx'ing in Victorian England, repeated bugicide, and two scoops of art-house awesome.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Solipskier
  • • The Incident
  • • Osmos
  • • Gravity Hook HD
What's even more exciting than skiing on ever-generating platforms with a rainbow at your back? Climbing on top of random piles of pixel art junk that falls from the sky! Seriously, try it. In real life. Go ahead.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Typomagia!
  • • Chawp!
  • • Liquisity 2
  • • Warlock Bentspine
The exclamation mark. It is thought to have originated from the Latin word for joy, lo, and made an appearance in printed English literature in the 1400s. Now, developers can append it to the end of their game titles to denote happiness, excitement or, indeed, to encourage you to exclaim the name outloud.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Ray Quest
  • • Sophiphobia
  • • Ozee
  • • Wasabi
  • • flowEST
This week on Link Dump Friday; a vertical shooter, a point-and-click escape, and some sort of... squidy... guy... sailing through the air... um. Yeah. Sackboys, sushi, cockroaches, spaceships, and sky-sailing! Five great flavours that go great together. Trust us on this one.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Everlands
  • • Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
  • • Puzzle Attack
Human beings love puzzles. This was proven eons ago when man first drew grids in the sand and placed various arrangements of four stones together as he gradually moved them downwards and removed them from the dirt when they formed a horizontal line. What, did you think Tetris was a modern invention? This week's Mobile Monday is stacked with three puzzle games for the Android platform. Download 'em, play 'em, and love 'em for a very long time, as each one's got a ton of content to sap your brain for all it's worth.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • D.O.T.: Dot Order Tie
  • • The Moonkeeper
  • • Mind Jolt
  • • Tricky Truck
A lot of indie games have rolled off the presses in the past week, including several as entries in the TIGSource "A Game By Its Cover" competition (which ends today). We've featured one of these games below, but look for more in the weeks to come!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • The Legend of the Cheetocorn
  • • Dino Strike
  • • Deep Diver
  • • Cloud Powered Jetpack!
  • • Escape From the Haunted House
Dinosaurs, cheetocorns, treasure chests, clouds, cats, and awkward massages? Sounds like a party to me! This week's Link Dump Friday offers everything from point-and-click escapes to retro platforming with a tasty twist. Also, there is a puppy in a birthday hat. I am totally not making that up.

CGDC8 Entries are now online!Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8 games are now ready to play!! All entries are available to play immediately on the competition page. There is a place to enter comments for each game, so please use each respective thread to leave your kind feedback and constructive criticisms for the game authors. The competition period will span 3 weeks, and we will announce the winners of the competition at that time.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Just Half
  • • Earth Defender
  • • Denki Blocks
This just in! Three iPhone games have been spotted by top scientists approaching the Earth from space! Estimated time of arrival is: now! Be on alert!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Sheriff Sam
  • • PostMan
  • • Epic Coaster
  • • Holiday Sim
  • • Mt.
On this fine Link Dump Friday, JayisGames gave to thee... one broken pony, one coaster leaping, one painful sunburn, one crazy mailbox, and endless impossible mountains to climb!... hmmm, doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?

CGDC8 updateJust a quick reminder that there is just 1 week left to polish up your design for a browser game that incorporates the theme "SANDBOX". See the official competition announcement for details. We are expecting entries to be on the light side this time, so your chances of taking top prize is better than ever. So finish up and get those entries in!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • ReBounce
  • • Helsing's Fire
  • • Pure Hidden
A proper Victorian gentleman never swears or loses his temper. He should never fail to raise his hat to an acquaintance, and if he should bump into someone or step upon a lady's dress, a sincere "Beg your pardon" should be uttered. Also, fist bumps are appropriate only when in the company of other similarly-bodacious gentlemen.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Sulkeis
  • • Nation of Reincars
  • • EverEternal WinterWorld 2
One of the games featured on this Weekend Download is a product of the GameJolt Indie Game Demake Contest, a recently-completed competition that tasked game creators to strip their favorite indie game of anything more complex than a few elements and scale it down to a retro size. The results were excellent, and you can find dozens more to play on the contest page, including some browser games!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Darkness 2
  • • Toe Nail Wheel
  • • Shadow Snake
  • • Inside a Dead Skyscraper
  • • Speed Escape 4
It's Friday, and what better start could you ask for your weekend then snakes, toes, paint, and locked rooms? The only thing that might possibly make this week's Link Dump Friday assembly better is strawberry pancakes. So we sent you some! Keep an eye out for the soggy envelope; you can thank us later.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Moxie 2
  • • Jump o' Clock
  • • Land Former
  • • Piyo Blocks 2
Some things in life you take for granted. Some things are always there and you never even stop to realize how important they are to you. These things fill a gap that only exists when they aren't there, leaving you free to live your life without disturbance. That is, until the day your keyboard goes on the fritz and you have to use a funky backup from the closet. Oh, ergonomic bliss, how your comfortable shape has molded my soul! Also: games are below.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Robotz DX
  • • Man Enough
  • • Illuminator
  • • Mirage
It's not often you find songs with lyrics in a video game. It's even less common that those lyrics explain how to play the game. Man Enough does both of those and somehow manages to squeeze in an image of a manly moustache between each round. Be impressed with catchy expositions!!!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • PixEvo - The Fountain
  • • Moovlin PC
  • • Noggins
  • • Rat Ranger
  • • Beat Bot
It's Friday, and where are you, dear reader? If your answer is anything other than "Kicking back in my fuzzy slippers with my beverage of choice and reading Link Dump Friday to get me primed for the weekend", well, then I am very disappointed in you! (Other acceptable answers include "Rescuing kittens from trees", "Writing a letter in support of fair-trade products", and "Rocking out with Tenacious D".) THIS WEEK: pixels, robots, Minoto, and coloured self-aware squares with haunting gazes forever locked in a featureless black void and unable to cry out for help before they blip out of their cold, lonely existence. Exciting!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Dot 2
  • • LogicPic
  • • Totemo
  • • Space Physics
Ohhhh that's right, more fun times with your neat-o Android devices! This batch of games will help fill your sweet Android phone with some much-needed entertainment.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Uchuusen
  • • Ultra Mission
  • • Shoot First
Weekend Download contains 80% of your recommended weekly allowance of awesome. It is recommended you supplement your intake of downloadable games with a balanced diet selected from other sources, including Flash games, mobile games, and that game you play with a paddle where you hit the ball on the rubber band.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • SunnyBoom
  • • Morplee
  • • Max Damage 2
  • • ZOM-TV!
  • • Madara-Kinoko
This week on Link Dump Friday; aliens! Cannons! Zombies! THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF THE SUN, THUS BRINGING AN END TO ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT!... sort of... only not really... oh, okay, it's another physics puzzle! We know what you like.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Doodle God
  • • Aqueduct
  • • Trainyard
Puzzle time! Three puzzle games that are guaranteed to keep you busy for a very long time, mostly because they're fiendishly difficult and have hundreds of puzzles to complete.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Cut It
  • • Tower Bombarde
  • • Rise: Sea of Static
Wait, so you mean, these games were just sitting there? Waiting for someone to grab them? Nobody was watching, no one at all? What about cameras or electric shock thingies? Nothing? Hmm. So I guess it's ok you downloaded them, isn't it? K whatever, let's play.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • 60s to Save the Queen
  • • 8x8 Adventure
  • • The Spline
  • • Shaun's Big Lunch
  • • The Harry Stick Journey
This is Friday, and as is our custom, we partake on this day of games from around the internets. This week! Save a queen while going on a tiny adventure and feeding some sheep before you rescue your girlfriend and then roll away on a glimmering trail of stars!... sort of.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • GodFinger
  • • Colorfall
  • • Dungeon Solitaire
Time for more portable gaming! This week we've got a mixed selection of apps ranging from simulation to puzzle to card games. As usual, each game does something particularly well, whether it's a gameplay feature, an interface, or an innovative concept on its own.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Attack of the 50ft Robot
  • • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Orbs
  • • Techno-Drone Alliance
What goes into a Weekend Download feature? The recipe is a secret, but it involves lots of game playing, internet searching, and cinnamon. Especially that last one.

Dream Chronicles: The Book of Air WalkthroughWe've just finished a complete walkthrough (with images) for Dream Chronicles 4: The Book of Air! Be warned: contains major spoilers, so proceed only as a last resort. Be sure to read our review of Dream Chronicles 4.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • One Hour Back
  • • Ninja Run
  • • Nightmare Maze
  • • Amateur Surgeon 2
  • • The Gun Game 2
Some days we try to make your Fridays themed. Some days we throw a ninja, a time-travelling mushroom, and a rusty pizza cutter at you and tell you to have at 'er. This is one of those days.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Super Quickhook
  • • Pro Zombie Zoccer
  • • Pix'n Love Rush
Two words for you at the start of this glorious new week: quickhook, and super. But, not in that order. You're smart, you can figure it out, no matter what day of the week it is.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Surphasm
  • • Rein
  • • Dubloon
Nothing like a tall, cool glass of game to wash the week out of your system and get you ready for the weekend. Dubloon could easily keep you busy until Monday morning rolls around, but Surphasm is unique enough to deserve your attention. Rein is a great diversion when you're ready for an adventure that won't take you a week to complete.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Ejector
  • • Tower of Doom
  • • Catnarok - Longcat Rampage
  • • Gem Grab
  • • Dragondot's Sky
If it's Friday, it must be time for Link Dump Friday! This week; puzzles, tanks, dragons, and internet fads that should have died out long ago! It's a fine selection of games that were carefully analysed to make sure they were perfect for you and not at all thrown together in a frantic five minutes before this article was due. I love you too much for that!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Miner Disturbance
  • • The Package
  • • Warehouse 51
  • • Grokion
With power rumored to be as great as the Dreamcast, iPhone games are slowly beginning to stretch their legs and show what the platform can do. Grokion is a great example of this, piling detailed 3D rendered visuals into a 2D game that looks and plays great.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • GunGirl 2
  • • Baggage
  • • Beeps and Blips
  • • Lackadaisium
Piling on the clichés can be fun, and the heaviest-hitting release this weekend, GunGirl 2, does just that. So, ig releases come in small packages. Also, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And there's no time like the present.

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • IheartPanda
  • • Unnatural Selection
  • • I Wish, I Wish - Prologue
  • • Fantastic Contraption 2
  • • Ninja or Nun 2
This week, PANDAS! WORMS! NUNS! And it still makes more sense than most episodes of Lost! Train your eye, your aim, and your evolutionary capabilities in this week's Link Dump Friday, specially baked just for you!

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Carcassonne
  • • Sigma
  • • THINK
We could go on and on about all the games featured below, but let's face it, you'll probably stop listening after you see the word Carcassonne. Yes, Carcassonne is out for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad, so you can play it in-between times that you'd probably be playing it anyway.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Blind
  • • Hydorah
  • • The Life of a Pacifist is often Fraught with Conflict
Multiple endings HURRAH! Different outcomes to the stories you are playing are nothing new, but it isn't often that the games are short and entertaining enough to encourage you to gather them all. It's interesting to play through several times just to see how your actions affect the game world. Two of this week's games feature different endings, and you'll definitely want to experience some of these alternate conclusions!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Hot Ninja Moon Moon
  • • Rescue a Chicken
  • • LARRY: Big Dipper
  • • Mamono Sweeper
  • • The Slob
Ever wanted to play a skull ninja while you rescued a chicken from a field of demons that was also falling down a bottomless mine shaft?... well... you can't. At least not all at once. But this week's Link Dump Friday does feature all of those things and more! Lucky you!

Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8!We're pleased to announce the next Casual Gameplay Design Competition! For CGDC #8, we are asking that you design a game around our theme, SANDBOX, and you may use any browser-based technology platform you are comfortable with (Flash, Unity, Shockwave, Javascript/HTML5, etc.)! Please read the official competition announcement for all the rules and details.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Replica Island
  • • Drop7
  • • Doodle Jump
  • • ZENONIA
  • • Paper Toss
It's taken some time, but the Android Marketplace is finally beginning to attract some great games! Many of them have a dual existence on the iTunes App Store, but a few exclusives are starting to crop up here and there. Either way, gaming on your Android phone is getting better and better, and we're here to cover t


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CGDC #8CGDC8 announcement coming June 1st!

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Punishment: The Punishing
  • • BulletZORZ
  • • ProtoType
One of my favorite things about independent games are not the games themselves. It's the games' names. When you don't have to attract a certain demographic to plop down cash for your game so you can keep your massive studio in California air conditioned, you're free to have fun and call your game Mr. Heart Loves You Very Much, Squid Yes! Not So Octopus!, or Punishment: The Punishing! We love you too, indie game creators!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Thanks Tanks!
  • • Contentric
  • • The Enchanted Cave
  • • Triggerman
  • • Short Film: Every Day the Same Dream
  • • Project Flame Demo;
What awaits you behind this innocuous link? Could it be... Link Dump Friday?!... well, yes. Obviously. Featuring platformers, strategies, and a bonus video made in tribute to a popular indie flash art game, this is one with something for everyone. Unless you're allergic to fun. In which case, here's some spreadsheets.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Kometen
  • • Phoenix Spirit
  • • Pebble Jump
  • • Transylvania Adventure
Sometimes the iTunes App Store is nothing but disappointing. Sometimes it's filled with a tolerable amount of playable games. Other times there are so many great things to choose from you kinda flip out and cry a little bit. This is one of the good weeks, so prepare to bawl.

Weekend Download
Games Featured:
  • • Visit
  • • Aztec God
  • • You Found the Grappling Hook
Certain conventions in video games will never change. Platformers always involve hopping on enemies' heads. Zombies want to eat your brains. Role playing games will always start with the main character being woken up from sleep. And swinging from walls and ceilings is fun. Let's keep it that way for a very long time, shall we?

Bonus Link Dump Friday: Super Spooky Edition
Games Featured:
  • • Absentia Episode 1
  • • Time to Wake Up
  • • The Insanity
  • • Desolation: The Stages of Anxiety
  • • Darkbase 2: The Hive
Boils and ghouls, assemble! This special bonus edition of your very own Link Dump Friday features spooks and scares for the hardier among you. Play an exterminator who takes on more than he bargained for, a man who wakes up to a strange package that changes his life, and more. Remember, it doesn't have to be October for us to make you want to hide under your blankets!

Link Dump Friday
Games Featured:
  • • Da Vinci Cannon
  • • Heaven or Hell
  • • Orton and the Princess
  • • Feed Mee!
  • • I Am The Night
Pick your poison; this week's Link Dump Friday brings you puzzles and platformers, restaurants and angels. It's the perfect potpourri of gaming to start your weekend off right.

Mobile Monday
Games Featured:
  • • Doodle Find
  • • 180
  • • Pinch
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