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As Sharkey mentioned earlier, he’s taking a much needed vacation over in Europe for a couple weeks. While he’s gone I’ve been asked to help keep you mofo’s entertained as he’s busy drinking and picking up many hot European women. To buy myself some time, since I am not entirely sure what I am going to do to keep you kids happy, I will simply distract you with videogames.

Bontago is best described as a 3D real-time strategy game with physics-based gameplay. The goal of the game is to encompass all of the flags on the game field with your area of influence. To do so you must expand your area of influence by placing differently shaped blocks ( which appear at your cursor every few seconds ) in your control area. As your stack of blocks grows taller your area of influence expands. Different specialty blocks can also be obtained which contain powerups such as a rocket that can be thrown at an opponent’s blocks or an earthquake which will tilt the entire game world. Bontago can be played both single or multiplayer ( both over the internet and LAN ) and is a very unique and fun game.

Counter-Strike 2D is a great top-down 2D version of the very popular multiplayer game Counter-Strike. It is playable both online or offline ( with bots ) and contains a large selection of maps. There is even a built-in map editor, giving the game even more replay value.

Crimsonland is a top-down, action-packed survival shooter featuring old school gameplay. You must battle off swarms of enemies with a variety of different weapons and powerups at your disposal.

Gate 88 is a multiplayer space combat game with many elements taken from the real-time strategy genre. You control a small spaceship, which you use to both attack the enemy and build up your base. You can create several building types and perform research to unlock more buildings or upgrade stats. Even though the goal is similar to most RTS games, where you must protect your command center while trying to destroy all of your enemies, Gate 88 is not your typical RTS game.

N is a 2D platformer created in Flash that is similar to the game old game ‘Lode Runner’. You are a ninja that is trying to escape from a world full of very dangerous, homicidal robots. As you avoid all deadly enemies you must collect gold to give yourself enough time to reach the exit of the level. The game features ragdoll physics and over 300 levels. It also includes a built-in level editor allowing you to easily create more. Despite it’s rather simple graphics it is very fun and can be insanely challenging.

Stunt Hamsters is a very small game that was created during the Indie Game Jam 2 ( which is an event that is designed to encourage game designers to experiment by having them create as many innovative games over a 4 day period as possible ). This game has you firing hamsters out of a cannon in an effort to have a certain amount of them reach the goal. The game basically treats the hamsters like a fluid. Once you pack a lot of hamsters into an area you can set them on fire, creating a rather violent explosion. This explosion will then push and move different physics-based objects in the level, allowing for some very interesting gameplay.

Warning Forever is a unique game that adapts to how you play it. It is a vertical shooting game, but instead of fighting through hundreds of enemies to reach the final boss, the game consists of only you and a boss. Depending on how you destroyed the boss in the previous level, the boss in the next level will have upgraded defenses to protect itself from a similar attack. As you progress in the game the boss will become increasingly difficult and force you to change your playing style to defeat him.

Many of you have probably already heard of and played most of these games, but if you haven’t I highly suggest you try them out. And while you’re busy doing that I will try and find something worthwhile to post to keep everyone amused ( although it’s very difficult as I keep getting distracted by all great slices that have been posted recently ).