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Grab three free games from Amazon's new Casual Game Store


Good news, casual gamers: Amazon has purchased Reflexive, which means the do-all e-tailer now has a massive collection of downloadable games at their disposal.

Currently, the store has over 600 available for purchase including games like Spandex Force and Yummy Drink Factory. You can probably find a few games that would be better choices than those, though.

Titles retail for $9.99 or less, but for a limited time you can grab three games for free: Build-a-lot, Jewel Quest II, and The Scruffs.

Of course, you can also find tons of great Time Wasters right here if you'd rather not support Amazon. We're ok with that.

[ via Silicon Alley Insider ]

Filed under: Fun, Games, Web

Loops of Zen proves harmony can be frustrating - Time Waster

"Everything is circular, Happy. Feel the flow."

In loops of zen, your task is to restore harmony to an assortment of shapes by assembling them in such a way that "no open end is left over."

Click, click, click. Turn, turn, turn. Click, click, click. Try again.

It's a good thing the process is so simple, because I probably would have gotten hopelessly flustered with anything more complicated once I'd gotten through a few levels of this seemingly simple puzzler.

Soothing, ambient music plays gently in the background. It's clearly an attempt by the game's developer to keep you from launching your fancy new netbook out a window as you search for the right combination of twists and turns to complete each level.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go look for something in the snowbank. Totally unrelated.

Filed under: Games, Internet, Time-Wasters

Casual Collective: Time Wasters from Dekstop Tower Defense makers

Buggle Stars
If you're the sort of person who can spend all day playing casual web games instead of getting any work done, I'd advise you to stop reading this post. Like now. Come back to it this weekend. Seriously.

OK, for the rest of you, the guys behind the insanely addictive Desktop Tower Defense game we told you about last year are back. This time they have a new web site and company called the Casual Collective that's choc full of similarly addictive games.

The games include an updated version of Desktop Tower Defense, which supports multiplayer mode, a run and jump game called Buggle Stars, a real-time strategy game called Minions, and 5 other games. In other words, you could easily spend an hour on each and ruin your entire workday. Or make it better...

[via GigaOm]

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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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