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Cubicle Freakout - Time Waster

Cubicle FreakoutIn terms of online flash games, Cubicle Freakout's gameplay isn't particularly compelling. But gameplay isn't really Cubicle Freakout's claim to fame. This game is really about wreaking as much havoc in your cubicle as you can as quickly as possible. The fun of it comes more from the way it's easy to sympathize with the freaky little dude in the game. The sound and visuals are also quite good when compared to other typical flash games.

You're not going to spend more than about 3 minutes with this one, but as time wasters go, sometimes a short-term commitment is all you really want anyway.

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Effective, explosive stress relief on your mobile phone


In the annals of video game history, there is no finer an opportunity for endless explosive glee than the vertical shooter. Most vertical shooter games involve a little two-dimensional spaceship that flies only in one direction (up) and shoot lots of interesting projectiles at an abundant cache of enemies. These seemingly endless enemy spaceships apparently have figured out how to fly in many directions--including right at you, which is bad--unless your trigger finger is fast enough.

Naturally, if you've just had a stressful day at work and you're wedged between two New Yorkers on the subway as you drive home, you might have the urge to blow something up. This is when the vertical shooter is at its most valuable. Pop open your mobile phone, fire up the latest Robotech offering, a vertical shooter in every respect, and blow away thousands of virtual enemies until your stress is gone, you reach your subway stop, or your cell-phone's softkeys (the game's trigger buttons) wear out.

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

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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