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GameGum: Earn cash for your Flash video games

Gamegum LogoGamegum is an online community based on flash video games. Registration is free, and once you sign up you can submit games you've created as well as play "comment and vote-on" games that others have created.

Yesterday Gamegum made revenue sharing live on their site. Users who create Flash games and post them on the site can also put up adsense ads and earn revenue for their games. The percentage of time your ads will be displayed on your game depends on your "Gumpoints" are points users can earn for posting games, voting on games, posting in the forum and other activities on the site.

Unless you spend tons of time on this site, or submit tons of games you're never going to get to the top revenue sharing percentage (50%). Submitting a game will earn you only 40 points of the 10,000 you'll need to get to a 50% revenue share. With 0 points however you can earn 25% so even new users will earn something.

For those of us who don't make our own Flash games this is a great site for finding some fun games to play. I found this site earlier and have spent 3 hours today playing games off the site while I was trying to write this post.

Games are divided up by genre such as puzzle, sport, strategy, casino, and arcade, so there is something for everyone.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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