While not the most cutting edge game, even when it came out, the game that really got me interested in computer games was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by EA Games.
Back when I was ten, I got the game after reading all of the Harry Potter books. If your a Harry Potter fan, you’ll probably like the game, while others may not.
Lego Racers is one of the few good racing games. I know what you’re thinking. “What?!”, right? I’m serious. Unlike most racing games, it’s not a simulation. It’s Lego, which means cartoon-y, basically.
Instead of just driving, there are shortcuts, a wide array of power-ups, and other features that set it apart from the rest.
Lego Racers has the best power-up system I’ve ever seen. There are four classes of power-ups, each a different colored Lego Brick. You have the red Attacks, the green Boosts, the yellow Hazards, and the blue Shields. Then there are the white Modifier bricks, that change what the base brick does. For example, you pick up a green brick, which is normally a five-second (about) speed boost (a jet engine appears at the back of your car). If you collect two white bricks before releasing the power-up, you get two jet engines, wings, and like 15 seconds of ultra fast boost time. If you collect the maximum of three white bricks, you go into hyperdrive, teleporting way ahead.
Stop laughing! I’m serious; Lego Star Wars the Videogame and the sequel, Lego Star Wars the Videogame 2: The Original Trilogy, are great games.
If you’re a Star Wars fan, or a Lego fan, you’ll like these games.
Here’s the general idea: The Star Wars movies with a Lego twist. Think Star Wars, but a lot funnier. When players/enemies are killed, they collapse into a pile of Lego bricks. You can use the force to build things out of Legos, you can fly Lego spaceships, you can fight with ligtsabers/blasters, and more.
I’m sure you’ve heard of RuneScape by now. RuneScape users play it at libraries, they rant about it on forums, and they talk about it nonstop. Some people bash it nonstop instead. On forums it’s all too easy to find people arguing about whether RuneScape is A: a great game or B: total garbage. Having recently hit the “one million users mark,” it can’t be as bad as some people say it is.
I’ve been playing RuneScape for the last few years, though I haven’t been playing four hours a week like I used to. Currently I log in now and then, every couple weeks or so.
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 [...]
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.
What’s more fun than watching Pirates of the Caribbean? How about playing it? Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online, which will be launched in May, fills the Pirate MMORPG niche finally. Originally scheduled to be released at the same time as the Dead Man’s Chest, POTC Online was moved forward a year. It is supposed to be released around the same time as Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End. Excited? Being a beta tester for the game, I can fill you in a bit.
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.
The trailer for the 5th Harry Potter game is now available. You can watch it here. The game will be available for XBox, PC, Playstation, Wii, GBA, PSP(?), and Aspyr will probably port it to Mac eventually. On the Wii version you use the Wiimote as a wand, doing various motions to cast different spells. There will be 13 spells which will be used for dueling and interacting with your environment (you can levitate and blast nearly anything). For screenshots of the game, you may want to look at the Site of Requirement Gallery.
