- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Battle screen saver 1.6. Let Them Die!!! — One of the coolest features about the old science fiction movies was space battle. Those naive but grandiose battlefields, thousands of different spaceships, huge asteroid-like battle-cruisers and small nimble fighters, explosion flashes and laser traces… Yes, those battles sometimes do return in the modern movies (for ex., the «new» Star Wars trilogy is quite a good one), but still they were born in 1980’s, with Star Trek and the…
- Road Rush 1.7.0. Rushes the Roads — This world is cruel. At the same time, it is generous. It is cruel because it is full of rules, laws, and morals — you can’t «just do» some things you’d want to do. Yet it is generous because there are many opportunities to feel all you want through artificial alternative realities like books or TV. Or computer games. You can choose your world (game) virtually…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- Blue Dragon, Homerun Battle — If you have passion for flying plane, if you hunger for an action, if you want to squeeze the use out of every spare minute, the Blue Dragon air fight game is something you ought to check out. Its simple scenario and common controls take you captive, and for hours you keep acting as a WWII pilot codenamed ’Blue Dragon’. Your mission in the game is to return home from a successful raid and cross the enemy…
- IronHero – command a tank platoon on the screen of your computer — If you always wanted to take a ride in a mighty Abrams across a hot desert, but your life went the other way and you are driving a Volvo, computer games may be a good chance to make your dream come true. If you are not familiar with any serious tank simulators and would like to start playing right away, try IronHero — a simple, yet amazingly exciting title that will place you into a humming gut of a combat…
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