Tag: ONLINEGAMES

Grateful Dead fans have sought haven online since the Web's inception. Deadheads populate message boards, fan sites and tape-trading forums in inordinate numbers, but a new interactive experience could provide unprecedented access to the band's voluminous history. According to ABC News, The Dead has signed on with game developer Curious Sense to build "an online world based on the music and ...

While political observers in the U.S. discuss and criticize metaphorical "hit lists" and cross-hairs, Russian authorities are currently investigating a far more graphic, and interactive, assassination innuendo. A pop-up game, which appears as a banner on the Alyans-Telekom website, invites participants to blast a floating caricature of President Dmitry Medvedev. Once executed, the virtual Medvedev ...

We already knew that hardcore Internet use could make us all feel lonely, depressed and pathetic. According to a new study out of China, though, teenage Web-addicts may be particularly susceptible to a nasty case of the blues. The study, which was authored by researchers Lawrence Lam and Zi-wen Peng, involved 1,041 teenagers who were identified as being free of depression at the beginning of ...

You might remember that a few months ago we wrote about a phenomenal little time waster called 'Canabalt' that sported the most basic controls we'd seen in a game since 'Dragon's Lair.' The title has you running across roof tops and smashing through windows to escape what appears to be an alien invasion. Your only control? Jump. You can't control your movement forward. You can't slow down. You ...

You have to wonder. Is there any heroic act taking place in the world that won't soon be turned into a tasteless, online, Flash-based game? We saw it most recently with the Hudson River landing, the real-life pilot's challenge-of-a-lifetime turned into a game so simple a monkey could play. Now, it's the story of Captain Phillips, the US hero who stood up to Somalian pirates recently, that's ...

It's easy to listen to the news and feel like we've heard the same things over and over again. Yeah, the economy's bad, the bank bailouts are ridiculous, the unemployment rate is through the roof -- we know it and it sucks, but it's easy to feel desensitized because we've heard it all so much. Enter LAYOFF, a Flash-based online game that not only gives you a visual representation of the ...

Everybody knows that digital distribution is the future -- and with its book and music services, nobody knows it more than the folks at Amazon.com. Now, the company has launched Amazon Game Downloads to scratch that ever-present "shooting and punching" itch in our lives. The service dropped last week in beta, offering 500 casual titles for under 10 bucks a pop. Oh, and here's a bonus for those ...

A few months back, Google unveiled the ability to embed links and notes within videos on YouTube. While the usefulness of the new tool wasn't lost on anyone, the level of interactivity it allows may have been overlooked at first. But a YouTube user known as copyrighthater has built a complex, video-based, photo-hunt game using these often overlooked tools. The game is divided into 30 "levels" ...