It's pretty crazy the things geeks can come up with when they get an idea. A group of undergraduate students over at Texas A&M have obviously been playing too much Guitar Hero, and decided that they could make a robot to conquer the game for them. After much thought they have named their dubious creation Slashbot.
Here at CyberNet we love playing ourselves a good game of Lemmings. I'm sure most of you already know about the web-based version which includes many of the original levels. If you've finished all of those before then maybe it is time to move onto something bigger and better... Lemmins (download mirror)!
If you're bored and looking for something to do that will keep your brain active, look no further than USAToday.com! We're not talking about keeping your brain active by reading the paper, we're talking about having fun while completing puzzles. Most newspapers include a crossword puzzle and a Sudoku puzzle, however USA Today has a few others that they publish daily.
I really believe that the Xbox 360 is such a strong gaming system because of the community that is built around the Xbox LIVE service. It gives you the opportunity to play games online with or against millions of other people. But understandably people have found ways to circumvent the system to collect an unreasonable number of achievements.
One topic that surprisingly hasn't been mentioned on CyberNet yet is Guitar Hero.
Not that I need any excuse to waste time, but I always keep an eye out for the "Time Wasters" that Download Squad writes about. They're usually pretty fun, and one in particular I recently got hooked on. It's called Tower Bloxx, and the flash-based game is about how well you can stack swinging building blocks. It sounds easy, but it can get tricky pretty fast.
PopCap Games is known for their collection of fun-to-play casual games which can be played in a limited version (for free), or the full version by paying a fee. Some of their most popular games include Peggle, Bejeweled, and Chuzzle which would all normally cost your $19.95 if you wanted the full version.
About a month ago Ryan introduced me to Peggle, a game from PopCap Games. He had been playing it and it looked like fun, so I decided I'd try it too. Little did I know how addicting this game would turn out to be.
One of the games that I've always enjoyed doing on the computer are the image puzzles, where you provide an image and it scrambles it all up for you to reorganize. Often times the puzzle only has one blank spot that you can use for sliding around the different puzzle pieces, kind of like this game.
It was just last month when Meebo opened their platform to third party developers and already, the first big batch of games have launched. There are over twenty different games available like classic Checkers, Reversi, Connect 4, and more.
