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Zombie games today have gotten stale. It's all shotgun blasts to the face, hoarding various health packs and ammo, and gratuitous, omnipresent gore. Finally, Ashes 2 Ashes: Zombie Cricket has turned the genre on its ear.

You play as the nameless Cricket Batsman. For some reason, a stadium of fans has assembled to watch you lay waste to your undead opponents not with your bat, as you might think (although you can get one free shot with it if the undead get too close), but with your superior strokes in a definitely defensive mode.

You'll whack Googly after leg break towards directly into the zombie onslaught, which has conveniently aligned single file in a neat row. You can upgrade your batsman for more power, or your bowler for faster run-ups. Do well and you'll also receive new and deadlier balls for your arsenal.

Once you nail the timing (wait for the bounce and hit it at the line), you'll breeze through early levels. This is only to lull you into a sense of false security for the manic rush of undead batsmen and giant zombified Crocodile Dundee impersonators. You may feel a twinge of anxiety as they get ever closer and you wait for the next pitch.

Of course, you still won't learn a thing about how to actually play Cricket.

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Mr. Elephant has been deeply involved in the online gaming industry for some time now. He started with a rave in support of his species. Then the attention he received spiraled out of control, so he tried to turn his back on fame. Eventually, like some digital Marlon Brando, Mr. Elephant embraced his gifts, and decided to win the hearts and minds of the world with a game that literally forces everyone to be a winner no matter what they do. So where can an elephant go after a career like that? Well, you're about to find out. Because in his latest video game, Mr. Elephant has taken taking one step back one step further.

This Is The Only Level. Really, it is. All you have to do is help Mr. Elephant finish one, single, solitary level. You've even got infinite lives, so it won't be too hard, will it? After all, it really IS the only level...

...from a certain point of view.

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Looking for something a bit low-key before this exciting, dare we say Super, weekend? We hear ya. Recoil's just the thing to kill an hour or two.

You're the bouncy white square. You want to go from left to right. Sometimes you might have to hit enter. That's all you need to know! It's not even as hard as being a plumber! And yet, you might find that Recoil very quickly proves to be a challenge.

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Everybody knows how to play Hangman - but there's not much challenge in killing a helpless prisoner, is there? At its heart, Semantic Wars offers similar word-guessing "action". But in this game, you solve the word puzzles so you can build more fighters, archers, and wizards, to defend your castle and take over the other guy's. Set the difficulty to Easy and you'll breeze through, but the Hard level is a real _as_ard.

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As long as there are people alive who have not yet found the genius of Ferry Halim, we will continue to link him from time to time. These simple flash games might be old, but they're still far far beyond what most of the Internet is doing with simple flash games. Today we're chilly, so we're playing Winterbells.

You're a rabbit in the snow, trying to jump on some bells. What? It happens all the time in nature! Work your way as high as you can go while enjoying the peaceful music and lovely graphics, and don't worry, if you miss a bell, the cute little bun bun won't die. He'll just land on the soft snow and look a little miffed that the game is over.

When you're done with the game, we highly recommend looking around the rest of Ferry Halim's list of games. There's really nothing else like them online.

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First of all, we'll warn you. Creeper World isn't a game. It's a simulation, designed to train you Last Starfighter style to fight against a strange alien ooze that is taking over a poor helpless planet. You've got to make a network of relays, collectors and weapons to make a stand long enough to activate the teleporter so that your octagonal city can escape.

Despite your pushy text-based drill sergeant, all you're really going to learn is that the people of Creeper World are big babies. Once you get a blaster next to the ooze portal, you can pretty much shut it down for good. What's wrong, Creepians? Scared of a little elbow grease? A laser and a security guard and your planet is fine!

Even still, Creeper World is pretty darn fun. And when you get the lasers set up correctly, the game can keep the ooze locked down for hours, meaning you can hide the window when your boss walks in the room and come back to finish the battle later. So get playing right now! The poor people of Creeper World need YOU!

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 You've slayed enough dragons. You've rescued enough damsels in distress. You've crept along stealthily in the shadows of feudal Japan long enough.

Just take a minute and breathe. Look at the pretty colors. That's all Angelo Plessas' ZigZagPhilosophy wants you to do: move your mouse around, enjoy the shower of colors cascading from your cursor, and relax.

There are no levels, no powerups, and no easter eggs (that we can find), but for once in your life just sit back and enjoy something for what it is, okay?

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What's good for the goose is good for the gander, so take a gander at the goose-based game. Endless Migration offers you a chance to fly the smoggy skies, re-assembling your lost flock out of the other geese you'll meet while you travel. Just keep in mind that geese aren't the only ones using the sky these days.

Dodge blimps, avoid jets, there's even a helicopter or two getting in the way like they own the place. Like some chaos theory Frogger, Endless Migration is an exciting way to help digital animals survive in a digital human world. Plus you get points if you read the instructions all the way through. That's nice.

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Our universe. Is it in three dimensions? Four dimensions? Ten dimensions? We'll leave that for the physicists to figure out. All we want you to know today is that Snakebox is the traditional snake game moved from a plane to a cube. Well, okay, really the snake is just on the outside of a cube. But do you really want to get into wormholes and string theory on a Thursday?

Snakebox also has a very nice Spanish-guitar-and-synth soundtrack delivered by a computer which was clearly classically trained. It's just so fusion! Head on through and enjoy.

Special thanks to chief mod Gatzby for the recommendation. Remember, if you don't play it right now, he'll ban you for life.

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WARNING: Playing this new flash version of Tetris could lead to dizziness, headache, and possible stomach distress. Take proper precautions before attempting to play this dizzying spin on a video game classic, including motion sickness medication or having a nearby trash.

First Person Tetris

is essentially the same game you've always played with one seemingly simple change. Instead of rotating the block, you rotate the room around the block itself. You wouldn't think this would be so tough, but by the time you've hit level 5 and the extra challenge of keeping your breakfast down hits you, you'll see just how effective this twist is.

Give it a shot, and let's see some high score screen shots in the comments!

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