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Earlier today, the makers of mobile gaming blockbuster Tiny Tower published the kind of open letter loved by video gaming's instantly and constantly angry fuck-the-man constituency, not least because it can be disseminated by imgur. It alleged that Zynga, the popularly despised maker of Facebook McGames, stole Tiny Tower's idea and was reaping a dishonest profit from it. More »
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Culmination is a smooth side-scrolling action game with an ambiance that is both eerie and calming. The controls feel solid (with only minor hiccups during combat) and I find myself zoning out while I play. Maybe I'm not a Flash game aficionado, but I am loving how polished this game feels. More »
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A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game. More »
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Super Meat Boy is no joke. That's a hard game, and that's part of its appeal. Put it in the hands of the maker of another, harder game, and it collapses into a singularity of motherfucker-what-do-you want-me-to-do difficulty. More »
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Remember that free Thor game that was pretty great? Well, there's one for Captain America. It's also got old-school 2D platforming and some totally cute sprite art. More »
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Last week, the outright theft of a Flash game, republished for sale on the iTunes App Store with Apple's approval, jarred the Flash development community. Though the app later was removed, anecdotal reports of similar ripoffs came trickling back. More »
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The Masters Tournament, which graces Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (duh), begins with its opening round tomorrow at Augusta National. Hecklers and disturbances are either unanticipated or flat impossible thanks to the golf club's otherworldly security - in this flash game's case, a sniper ready to take out any troublemakers. More »
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You'd have K.O.L.M., a Flash-based, Metroid-style adventure about piecing together a sad little platforming robot. And while K.O.L.M. may feel heavily inspired by some great games, its audio-visual style helps to set this game apart. More »
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While Adult Swim's flash games aren't known for classy content, two have been singled out by animal rights group PETA for being especially animal friendly. Humans killing polar bears is bad, but polar bears killing humans wins awards. More »
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Leaky World attempts to turn Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange's essay on conspiracy into a computer game. More »
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Why didn't anyone think of this sooner? Mega Man Christmas Carol replaces the robot masters with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, plus that poor old bastard Marley. More »
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QWOP's staggering, shambling sprinters have entertained and infuriated us in a flash game for two years. How can we make this game even more frustratingly difficult? Why, let's use the iPhone's multitouch and accelerometer controls in concert! More »
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This nifty timewaster's been around since early October; someone just brought it to my attention, so now I'll bring it to yours. By bookmarking this link, you can play Asteroids on any page. Watch me shoot up Crecente's bio! More »
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Well, that's one way to get rid of the Hammer Brothers. If blasting away at everyone with Lance's spread-fire wasn't enough overwhelming firepower, SOPHIA the 3rd from Blaster Master will arrive in late November. More »
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Remember paper football? I never learned how to properly fold up the notebook paper into a triangle. My older brother did. We played it on a coffee table given to my great-grandfather by an admiral in the Korean navy. More »
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PETA2 teaches children about the plight of circus-bound elephants with a pair of new flash games, giving the world's largest land mammals a chance to strike back against the clowns, trainers, and circus CEOs that are keeping them down. More »
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A right-wing Austrian political party's published a flash game in which the countryside is overrun with minarets and mosques and players must stop their construction. Because nationalism and xenophobia's so much more fun when it's in the German language! More »
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Oh, you thought we were done with vuvuzelas? Hell no, now you can play the bitches in the inevitable "Vuvu Hero" flash game spoof. More »
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Sort of a cross between Adventure and Berzerk is "Halo 2600" by Ed Fries, a clever little timewaster that riffs on the tropes of Atari 2600 game design, especially the snicker-inducing bleep-bloop Halo Theme in the intro. More »
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What the hell is Transformice and why can't I stop playing it? Well, it's a multiplayer Flash-based game, in which you control a mouse and try to get cheese faster than any other mouse. And it's total, hilarious chaos. More »
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If you enjoy Peggle, felines, and raw fish rolled in rice, the you'll love Sushi Cat, a game about getting a cat fat enough to activate an automatic door. More »
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The gentleman who created this Flash adaptation of last week's civilian divebomb attack on an IRS building says he enjoys "making stupid games in 24 hours or less." Mission accomplished. More »
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This week is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention week, it's also the kick off for the third annual Life. Love. Game Design Challenge. More »
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How many times can the classic paddle game Pong be reinvented? The answer is now "one more" with the release of gnop, in which you control the ball, not the paddles, each screen a unique, sometimes difficult challenge. [gnop] More »
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Stylish indie platformer Canabalt, which we loved as a Flash game and as an iPhone app, is now lovable in another form—a mini-soundtrack. More »
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Mrs. Claus has been abducted, and Santa's out to deck the walls with gingerbread men and nutcracker guts. It's a Christmas mashup of Kung Fu for the NES and it's (wait for it) ho-ho-holarious. More »
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Dutch game designer Kenney Vleugels realizes how prosaic life can be sometimes. Not that a flash game about watching a DVD turns that into an epic happening. But it is more interactive than reading someone tweet about it. More »
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The great thing about working weekends is I can blast gas with impunity in the Kotaku Tower elevator, and then on Monday when the car smells like Donkey Kong's taint, Fahey gets blamed for it once Crecente comes in. More »
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Been a while since we've done these. Here's GrowBox, courtesy of King.com. The object is to pick up all of the gold orbs, but consuming them makes your box grow, so the board must be navigated in a specific order. More »
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Just like the Army, the U.S. Air Force uses games to help potential recruits connect with their organization. Just not quite as well. More »
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Is it possible to educate about teen dating violence through a violence-free video game? More »
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Some wit cooked up a HD-version of Tetris - I can't even begin to count the grid here - which makes dying or clearing lines an agonizingly long process. More »
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There's just no quit in the zombie genre. Here's a flash game whose object is to corral a horde of infected, lest one wander off the screen and kill a human. More »
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Unlockables give this jump-physics Flash game some pretty strong replay value. I spent at least 30 minutes tricking out my cart and practicing midair handstands. More »
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Danc of Lost Garden is back with another prototyping challenge; game designer I am not, but I love these things — especially seeing what people come up with. On the plate this cycle? A fishing game that Danc describes as "Frogger using a polar coordinate system, a frog that insists on drifting to the left and only the ability to move forward": More »
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Edmund McMillen (of Aether, Gish, and the game that shall not be named) is back with Meat Boy, a challenging little game that involves the titular blob of meat trying to rescue Bandaid Girl in a variety of levels. It took me a while to actually look at the game, since the designer woke me up a few nights in a row via IM asking me to take a look at it — I hold a grudge when it comes to my sleep being interrupted — but I've spent some time with it and it's worth a looksee if you're in the mood for a challenge on a Sunday afternoon. Controls are simple, the game is difficult, but you can skip two levels per group — so if you really get stuck, don't despair. More »
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Here's Karoshi Suicide Salaryman, a frighteningly addictive puzzler in which the object is to kill yourself. Of course, only that part of the game's concept is backward, the actual means to kill yourself are obscured or protected from you, as you are a danger to yourself and others (and you have access to firearms). I made it to level 7 (it counts down from 49) in about 20 minutes. For a flash game, that's a pretty good gameplay experience. The game remembers your progress if you want to come back to it later, so don't delete your cookies. I really dig the soundtrack, but there's no explanation of why you're so desperate to end your own life. My guess is the global financial meltdown armageddon panic has something to do with it. Karoshi Suicide Salaryman [Armor Games] More »
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Insidious Tuna sent this along. I swear I've seen it somewhere before, but apparently not on Kotaku. This game has a very simple premise and a very difficult opponent - your own patience. My only advice to you is that, after you click to start the level, any movement of your mouse, click, or key strike fires the gun. This game should be used at business leadership conferences, because it would definitely show who was the hypercompetitive, win-everything-at-all-costs guy in the crowd. I got to level 7 before I just had to fool with it and kill the puppy. But I'm thinking I could beat this game if I had a good book to read in the meantime. Sorry about the lame screengrab. I couldn't get actual gameplay, for reasons that will become obvious. Don't Shoot the Puppy [rrrrthats5rs.com] More »
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Reader Alex B. sent in this — Fantastic Contraption — a physics flash game where you string together wheels and joints in order to carry an object toward a goal on the screen. It's nice nonviolent trial-and-error fun, indulging both the competitive urge to be as efficient as possible, and the creative impulse to be as outlandish as you can get away with. More »
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This wonderfully adorable (and kind of weird) game is pretty straight forward — guide the marshmallow around a variety of objects just waiting to take a bite out of your head and send you hurtling towards the ground so you can land with a 'splat.' It's cute. It's not terribly taxing. The soundtrack is ... well, something (soothing? Weird? Vaguely Katamari-esque? All of the above?), but the game is really cute and a nice way to waste a couple of minutes or more .... More »
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