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Amazon Software Download Store to include video games soon

Amazon Software Download Store
A job posting on Gamasutra suggests Amazon will soon start a PC game download store to compliment Unbox, its video-on-demand service, and the site's MP3 download store. The job posting asks programmer/engineers to apply to become a part of the Software and Video Games Digital Technology Team at Amazon, which is "responsible for digital distribution of software and video game products from the Amazon website, including the newly launched Amazon Software Download store."

The job posting itself is unsurprising as Amazon recently launched the software branch of its download services, but the job post includes the bit about the distribution of "video game products," which is currently not happening at the Amazon Software Download Store. The only software presently available from the very new service is unfortunately tax software.

But fear not! We're sure a few competent souls will apply, molding the new service into a very happy reality for those of us that hate visiting and supporting major retail stores like Best Buy and Circuit City.

[via Joystiq]

Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Time-Wasters

Meal or no meal? - Today's time waster


"No mindless trivia. No tricky stunts. Just $1,000,000 worth of food, and it's all for one question...Meal or no Meal?"

In Meal or No Meal? You start by selecting a tray to keep to the side from 26 available dinner trays. You then eliminate dinner trays in small groups with each tray containing a food item worth somewhere between $.01 and $1,000,000. After each group of trays the dinner bell rings and the chef makes you a food offer forcing you to decide: Meal or No Meal?

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Time-Wasters

Cursor Run - Today's Time-Waster


Today's time-waster Cursor Run is a mouse race like no other. In the game your only job is to put your mouse cursor inside the circle before your computer opponent does. As the game progresses the circle appears much faster and your opponent gets much more difficult to beat. The game is extremely simple in concept but also extremely difficult in practice and highly addictive. Give it a try.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Time-Wasters

Dots - Today's Time-Waster

When I was in high school I used to play Dots with friends during lectures, on the bus, during lunch... anytime there was a lot of sitting involved and I didn't want to pay attention, which was the bulk of high school. When I found this flash version of the game I was addicted to it once again..

Playing Dots is simple. You have several rows of dots on a piece of paper. You and a friend (or in this case the computer) take turns connecting two of the dots together. The object is to create more squares in the end of the game than your opponent. Since you can only connect two dots at a time the beginning of the game is all about finding a place to connect two dots where your opponent can not come behind you and complete a square. If you complete a square, it continues to be your turn until you make a move that does not complete a square. In the end the player with the most squares wins.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, News, Windows, Linux, Time-Wasters

OpenArena: free and fraggin-tacular - Today's Time Waster

OpenArena
Question...what is only 72MB, downloadable, free, fun, and fraggalicious? Why OpenArena, of course. This little game (with excellent graphics I might add) is built on the FOSS Quake 3 engine. There is a single player, as well as multiplayer mode you can play with. The latest version is 0.6.0, and is really a lot of gameplay packed into a small download (for what it is). If you are a gaming fan, especially of Quake, Unreal, and other fraggin games like that, and maybe a little old-skool, you'll like this game. I mean it doesn't get much better for free, does it? Heck, I like a free flash game, and this is just a tiny bit more involved. Try it out, it is actually quite addictive. Almost as much as the downloading of the game itself. Fresh bits and pixels man (in geek-speak, it means "sweet-lovin"). Enjoy and frag away!

Filed under: Games, Windows Mobile

Updated Playstation emulator for Windows Mobile

FPSCEAnother holiday has come and gone, and you've discovered nobody loves you enough to buy you an $800 video game console. But if you've got a Playstation Portable or a Windows Mobile devices (particularly a Dell Axim X50v or X51v), there's good news on the video game front.

Engadget's reporting that hackers have figured out a way to make the Playstation emulator for PSPs more useful. Now you can play pretty much any Playstation ISO on a PSP, and not just the titles you can download from Sony's online store.

In other news, FPSCE, a Playstation emulator for Windows Mobile devices has been updated to include support for Windows Mobile 5.0. The latest version is also optimized to take advantage of the Intel 2700g graphics accelerator in Dell Axim X50v and X51v models.

Filed under: Windows

Knuckles RPG to help you learn Japanese

Knuckles in China LandI'm not sure why this game is called Knuckles in China Land, but it's a learning game for practicing your Japanese characters--Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji--or your Japanese, Indonesian, or German vocabulary. The game stars Knuckles from the Sonic the Hedgehog games (unlicensed, I'm sure) and takes the form of a traditional RPG, except that instead of fighting battles with monsters, you must master characters and vocabulary words. It comes with libraries which include thousands of characters and words, but if you want more it also has a Vocabulary Editor to add your own.

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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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