The Blue Flamingo

Nuuvem is offering The Blue Flamingo at 100% off right now. It's an arcade shooter from Might and Delight. What sets this one apart is that the graphics are almost entirely made from handcrafted miniatures, the setting was actually filmed on a 32-foot-long model track, and the explosions were filmed fireworks and the like. There's also an interesting system allowing you to spend some of your score on upgrades, or earn interest for not spending it, forcing you to find the proper balance between upgrades and skill.

Jade Empire: Special Edition

Origin regularly gives away older titles "on the house". This time the offering is BioWare's Jade Empire: Special Edition, an action RPG played out among the myths of China.

PC Mag giving away Steam keys for four games

PC Magazine is giving away four free games this week. You can sign up on their site here. The games included are:

8 Bit Boy


Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! (this is a two pack)



Bionic Dues


Hat tip to Free Stuff Times.

StormWinds 1.5

Defend against derigibles, flying cannons and more in StormWinds 1.5, a Tower Defense game on Kongregate. No mazes and complex winding paths in this one though, your tower slots (only four!) are on the left and the enemies come at you from the right (mostly). Upgrading is automatic, but repairs and buffs are costly. See if you can make it through a campaign or two!

Frontline Tower Defense

Frontline Tower Defense is one of the more difficult TD games I've played. And that's on the easy setting! It looks pretty standard... Open playing field, creeps moving through it. But the creeps are deceptively difficult, and the towers are a bit on the pricey side. Think you have what it takes? Go find out!

Areas

Areas is a simple, yet addictive game consisting of a lot of black, white and grey circles, no text at all, and no need for ever clicking your mouse (even though the entire game is played by mouse rather than keyboard)! Wondering what on earth I'm on about? Well, the best way to find out would be to go try it for yourself!

Flash Element TD 2

Some of you may remember me posting Flash Element TD a few weeks ago. Today, I'm featuring it's sequel, Flash Element TD 2. If you thought the last one was funny with the speakers on, you'll love this one. As each wave enters the playing field, they'll yell some sort of battle cry. Then when they die, they'll cry out in defeat. In this one, you're not defending a stronghold or anything, rather you're protecting a set of colored orbs. If the creeps manage to get all of the orbs back to their home base, it's game over!

Tarnation

Use your army of seeds to defend your garden against attacking bugs in Tarnation. Send out seeds to become flowers and repel the bugs, but don't send too many or your waste meter will take a hit. Don't let the bugs reach the water or you might find your garden in jeopardy.

Featured Game: Temple Guardian

Time for another tower defense game, and this one's a bit trickier than most. In Temple Guardian, you're defending an ancient temple against waves of invaders. You start out with the usual fare, cannons and arrows, but there are also eagle's nests and sacred dragons. Manage your money and your miracles, and don't forget to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade!

Featured Game: Paper Pug

Take one pug on a string, a slew of soldier guys with shoulder-mounted guns, and throw in a sword-wielding ninja, and what do you have? Paper Pug! See how long you can dodge bullets and swords and keep your pug alive.

Featured Game: Sushi Go Round

Sushi Go Round is a fun little service-type game. You'll need to master various Sushi reccipes, with new ones added each level, in order to serve your customers quickly. But that's not all there is to this game! You also have to manage your supply of ingredients. You can only order ingredients in quantities of ten (or less!) at a time, but most of the recipes require at least two of a single ingredient, so it's easy to run out if you don't keep on top of things! Of course, if your customers are getting cranky from having to wait, you can always smooth things over with some complimentary sake.

Featured Game: Flash Element TD

Time for another Tower Defense game!!! For this one, you absolutely must turn on your speakers because each wave of invaders has their own battlecry and some are quite funny. Other than that, Flash Element TD is pretty standard of the genre: build towers, upgrade them, repel attackers, etc. Worth a play or two though, especially if you're a TD fan like I am!

Featured Game: Vector TD

Vector TD may not have flashy graphics like some of the Tower Defense games out there, but it more than makes up for it with it's playability. Start out by picking your map, then build towers and defend against the oncoming attackers. Spend cash to build and upgrade towers, but you'll also get bonus points that can be used to build modifiers.

Ball Physics

Ok, the name kinda sucks. I'll be the first to admit that. But Ball Physics is actually a pretty good little game. There are two types of balls on the board. The camouflage ones are your troops. Soldiers, tanks, hunters, sirens and ice cream trucks. (That last one is a decoy, but it's pretty effective!) The black ones are bombs. You have to destroy the bombs before they explode, all the while working around a series of traps and obstacles, in order to save the world from the dreaded Dr. Destructo and his diabolical plans.

Featured Game: Cirplosion

At first, Cirplosion looks like another boomshine take off, but it isn't. There is no option for chain reactions for one thing. Click your mouse once and hold the button down until your circle is as big as you can get it without touching either the floating dots or the edges of the board. Then release the button and move your circle on top of as many of the dots as you can. Click again to remove any dots you're covering from the board. In some levels you may get only one shot to remove them all. In others, you can use multiple cirplosions. The clock is always ticking though, and there's never as much time on it as you'd like.

Featured Games:

Somehow, I seem to have missed posting yesterday. See what happens when I give myself the weekends off? So, since there was no game for Wednesday, there will be two for Thursday.

The first is Excit. It's a game that I'm sure you've played before, just not quite like this. The object is to move your cursor to the exit. Use the arrow keys to move in any direction, but you won't stop unless you hit something. Work your way from block to block until that big green sign is in view, and then go for it. Oh, and the entire thing is played on a spreadsheet...

Game #2 is a classic. Gold Miner was popular enough that it spawned a sequal (or two). Press the down arrow key to send your claw searching for loot. Be careful what you pick up though, heavy objects take longer to reel in than light ones and rocks really aren't worth much. Each level has a goal, and your money earned carries over to the next level. Once you complete a level, you are sent to the bonus shop where you can purchase supplies to help you on your way, but if you spend too much there, you may find yourself in trouble in the next level.

featured game: infect.evolve.repeat.

In infect.evolve.repeat, all you have to do is infect a certain number of blood cells each level. Do this by dragging your virus onto healthy red cells, but avoid the white blood cells and don't let yourself be swept off the screen. After each level, you'll be given the chance to upgrade various aspects of your virus, making it a more powerful germ over time.

Featured Game: Warbears

The first in a series, Warbears is a fun little action puzzler. You've been called in to stop a bank robbery in progress. Lead your team of four warbears, each with their own specializations and talents, to rescue the hostages and thwart the bad guys. But be careful. Each action can either help or harm your mission, depending on the order in which they're performed.

Featured Game: Flash Circle TD

On the surface, Flash Circle TD looks like any other tower defense game. Build towers, upgrade them, defend against incoming creeps, same old same old, right? Of course, this one has a bit of a twist to it. Rather than entering the screen and traveling toward a specific point where it will attack you, taking one of your lives, these creeps just hang around. That is, move around, but never leave. So rather than having a set number of lives to lose, you have a set maximum number (100) of creeps that can be on the playing field at any time. While that may seem like a small difference, it does change the strategy of the game, just a bit. Enjoy!

Featured Game: Turkey To Go

Since it's Thanksgiving and all, I figured I'd go with a holiday-themed game today. Turkey To Go is a simple but amusing game. Guide your turkey across the table cloth in an attempt to regain all of his feathers. Collect bonus corn, but avoid the forks and watch out because the clock is ticking. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!