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SLACKERJACK! Falling Sand Game

by Mof Gimmers

Most online games are incredibly easy to work out as they’re based on things you’ve already played. There’s beat ‘em ups, shoot ‘em ups, sports games, puzzle games… and the list goes on and on. However, sometimes, you’ll find an online game that’s absolutely mystifying. A type of game that just doesn’t exist anywhere else [...]

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SLACKERJACK! Gibbets 2

by Mof Gimmers

It must be quite tricky coming up with ideas for new games. There’s so many of them knocking around that there can’t be much in the way of new ideas. So when originality isn’t an option, go for something weird. And Gibbets 2, while being the archetypal Aim And Shoot game of angles, there’s something [...]

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SLACKERJACK! – Turbo Turbo Turbo

by Mof Gimmers

There’s a lot of retro-games out there which look to recreate the experience of old arcade machines and 8bit consoles. However, what most of these modern takes fail to remember is that many of the old games were utterly baffling and filled with badly translated English. Sometimes, you could persist in playing an old game [...]

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Stan Lee To The Rescue!

by Kris Silver

Stan Lee is a God to millions of geeks everywhere and a seemingly harmless, eccentric old man to the rest of us. Lee is the former president and CEO of Marvel comics, the publisher that brought us such legends as Spiderman, the X Men and Squirrel Girl (seriously). Why is a washed up old geek [...]

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Why Both Fifa and Pro Evo Fail To Be Realistic In 2010

by Kris Silver

Fifa vs Pro Evo. It’s a battle that has caused many a forum argument and playground bullying campaign as people try to decide which provides the better footballing experience. A battle that has had fresh life breathed into it with the release of the demo versions of Fifa 11 and Pro Evo 11 on both [...]

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SLACKERJACK! Wine Pong

by Mof Gimmers

Puzzle and logistics games are usually very dry affairs. Think of Columns and Tetris. They were functional and hugely addictive. Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move meanwhile, livened things up with little dragons that puked up into your slingshot. Continuing in this fashion – sorta – is Wine Pong, which takes a very simple game and tarts it up [...]

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SLACKERJACK! Bloxorz

by Mof Gimmers

Skiving in the office is not to be underestimated. There’s a million ways of doing it. Offering to make the entire office cups of tea every 10 minutes is a good way of doing no work. Prolonged toilet breaks, with the addition of clutching your stomach when you leave the traps, to imply that it [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Depict1

by Stuart Heritage

Now this is a psychological nightmare. Depict1 is possibly one of the most menacing online game we’ve ever had to play. And the worst thing is that we can’t tell you why. The secret of Depict1 is, well, a secret. The only way to get to the bottom of it is to play it. Or, [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Riskful Thinking

by Stuart Heritage

Like gambling? Don’t like having plates thrown at your head when you’ve finished gambling because your wife’s upset about you blowing all your savings on a cockfight? Then boy oh boy, are you going to love Riskful Thinking. It’s all the fun of gambling, with none of the catastrophic financial ruin. Here’s how it works [...]

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Halo Developers Bungie Are No Slackers When It Comes To Piracy

by Kris Silver

Bungie, the developers behind games such as Halo, Halo 2 and… erm, Halo 3 have made an announcement to all the people playing the leaked version of their latest game, Halo 4… I mean Halo: Reach. Halo: Reach for the Stars is a first person shooter set somewhere in outer space and requires the player [...]

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