In Desktop Tower Defense, your objective is to stop the lines of “Creeps” from crossing the desk. They go from one side to the other, though in some difficulty levels, there is more than one line of enemies.

To stop them from crossing the board, you place “towers” with various abilities to zap them before they get to their destination. For every creep that you miss, you lose one of your lives. For every Creep you zap, you get points and gold. Gold is used for buying/upgrading towers.

The tower types are

• The Pellet Tower, which is the cheapest of the towers. It fires reasonably fast, and it’s damage levels are okay. It’s cheap, so start with this one.
• The Squirt Tower fires real fast, but doesn’t damage the creeps much.
• The Dart Tower is the heavy artillery. It’s not exactly cheap, and it fires slowly, but it packs a punch.
• The Swarm Tower fires a group of four tracer missiles to take out flying creeps.
• The Frost Tower slows your opponents so your other towers can do their work.
• The Bash Tower repeatedly emits a shockwave to seriously reduce the health of nearby creeps.

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Why would I pay $30 for a skateboarding game (supposing there are still ones avialble for the PC) when I could play Sewer Run or it’s sequel Sewer Run 2: Night Ops or free?

Sewer Run is a shockwave-based game where you skateboard through something somewhat resembling a big sewer pipe, dodging other pipes, going over jumps, and pulling off tricks while airborne. Meanwhile, there are other competing skaters you can bombard with power-ups.

It’s pretty good for a Miniclip game. I especially like the Battle mode where you have to take out all eight of the other skateboarders before the end of the track.

Seeing as I’m not a huge fan of skateboard games, I’m not about to go out and buy one. This one is both fun and free, so…

Tired of boring old chess? Looking for something better? Take chess, give the pieces different stats and skills, and you’ve got Tactics Arena.

Tactics Arena Online, or Tactics Arena, is a multiplayer online flash game. In TAO, each piece has a certain amount of health, an attack type, and a recovery time. We’ll get back to that in a moment. Let’s start from the beginning. Here’s how to play Tactics Arena from the beginning. By the time you finish reading this guide, you’ll practically know everything about TAO. Be warned: Just because you can play chess, doesn’t mean you can beat everyone at TAO. You have an entirely different set of rules. Also, you don’t need to know how to play chess to play TAO. Let’s get started. (more…)

Bored? Do you have enough time for one or more 5-minute rounds of flash-based fun? Try Stick Arena. I recommend registering so you can save your scores and for other reasons. You don’t have to though. If you don’t have much time, you can have a random temporary name assigned to you (you’ll also go into a random game. NOT recommended!). You should signup, login, and pick/create a game.

In Stick Arena there are swords, sledgehammers, 3 types of guns, and baseball bats. You move around with the Arrow keys and attack by clicking the mouse. You collect the weapon power-ups to change your weapon. The easiest level is called “XGen HQ”. That’s pretty much all you need to know to get started. But if you want to win…. (more…)