Remember Bloons Tower Defense? Version 4 is out

Bloons Tower Defense 4 is out. Go waste time. 9 comments

Osmos: Serenity in a petri dish

Games take the player to many different places: distant planets, historic battles, post-apocalyptic futures and through inter-dimensional portals. Games also have you fill some pretty strange shoes, from aliens, to spacemarines, to oppressed freedom-fighting theoretical physicists. So why not letting you become a droplet of water? What possible motivations could a droplet of water have? What plot? [...] 5 comments

Popcap to infect legions of DSi owners with colorful madness

Today PopCap announced that two of their popular casual titles, Bookworm and Bejeweled Twist, will soon be available for the DSiWare service. In addition, cartridge versions for the DS will launch shortly thereafter. Late September brings Bookworm via DSiWare Mid October for Bejeweled Twist via DSiWare December 1 for Bookworm DS Q1 2010 for Bejeweled Twist DS This marks PopCap’s [...] 2 comments

Zuma gets his Revenge

Let’s go back to the year 2001 for a moment. If you were a gamer back then, you may remember being shocked, irked, surprised, angry, thrilled, or mystified when you heard the techno music, the “clicks” and “tings”, and discovered your mom, your aunt, your kid brother, or the receptionist at your office playing video [...] 46 comments

Play gemcraft. Lose productivity

Icrontic Gaming here with another way to blow idle hours away. Gemcraft is another high quality casual Flash game from Candystand. It’s another entry in the addictive tower defense genre, with a lot of cool features. You build custom gems that you place in towers. You can combine gems to get increased stats, and buy [...] 4 comments

Casual of the day: Chopper Challenge

emember this? Back in the day, Icrontians used to get extremely competitive about this simple game. There is only one control mechanism—you click to go up, and… don’t click to go down. Try to get as far as possible. There was a time…. there was a time when competition with this game got straight-up fierce, with [...] 13 comments

Casual of the day – “holy crap this is beautiful” edition

This game has entranced me today. The colors, the music, the simplicity. It’s almost a form of meditation. I urge you to ask no questions – just go and play Auditorium.  Auditorium is a thing of beauty. As they say in their documentation, it is about finding whatever solution best suits you; it is about discovery and [...] 14 comments