As the whole world knows by now, we love our cannon games. And that’s why we love Contrast Cannon. Even if it does make our brains hurt a bit. Here’s how Contrast Cannon works: you’ve got two cannons - one white on black and the other black on white - in two halves of the screen. Each half of ...

Veel bibliotheken weten nog steeds niet goed wat ze aanmoeten met videogames en/of gratis internet. Sla de archieven van ZB Digitaal en andere biblioblogs er maar op na. Voor collega's die worstelen met gamedilemma's is het wellicht aardig om te weten dat de American Library Association deze week ee...

Now this might just be unique to us, but we’ll warn you nonetheless - Space Blocks might just make you want to smash in your computer with a hammer. That’s partly because of Space Block’s soundtrack - which sounds like it’s from a 1993 ITV detective show about ecstasy dealing - but it could ...

The Xbox Live banning of a lesbian gamer who self-identified her sexuality created a huge furor on Thursday, prompting Microsoft to characterize its own banning policies as "inelegant." After identifying herself as a homosexual in her Xbox Live profile, the......

Truly today is a good day. It’s only been about 20 minutes since we decided that Castle Clout was one of our favourite games of all time, and now there’s a flipping sequel. Castle Clout: Return of The King is basically just more of what made Castle Clout so good - you fire balls at castles and k...

As you may well know, we’re global authorities when it comes to online games about shooting stuff out of cannons. And in this capacity, we feel we should point out that Roly Poly Cannon is one of the best cannon games we’ve ever played. Roly Poly Cannon couldn’t be simpler - you fire a load of...

It might just be us, but none of the Slackerjacks we’ve featured this week have really made much sense. We’ve has death dice, impenetrable alchemy games and now - in Time4Cat -  time-bending felines. What the hell’s going on? Actually, Time4Cat is actually quite hypnotic once you start playin...

Snappy title, huh? Who wouldn’t want to spent their lunchtime playing something that sounds as white-knuckle exciting as The Codex of Alchemical Engineering? Well, we have some bad news for you: The Codex of Alchemical Engineering isn’t particularly thrilling. But it is a brainteaser of galactic...

Edit: I don’t actually play EVE, just watch from afar. I’ve corrected some errors below that players of EVE mentioned to me. A few days ago, everyone wanted me to write about the massive destruction of the Band of Brothers alliance in EVE Online, and how Goonsquad GoonSwarm finally trium...

Well we don’t know about you, but one of the things that ticks us off most of all is string. String string bloody string. Tell you what, string is chaos! Actually it’s not. String is the opposite of chaos. Anyone who tells you that string - essentially just a length of twisted fibres - is chaos ...