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Some people with way too much time on their hands have assembled a list of video game tropes that is pretty extensive. There's some interesting stuff in there, some funny stuff, some boring stuff.

It's worth a look, as there are hidden treasures to be found.

Prime example: Metal Wolf Chaos, a Japan-only Xbox game where you play as the president ( Read more... )

Feel like you start games, but never finish them? Try You Have to Burn the Rope.

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If you haven't had enough seizures lately, you may want to check out Seven Minutes and ROM CHECK FAIL.

Seven Minutes is another one of those fixed-time, games-as-art dealies and features some old-school platforming. ROM CHECK FAIL is basically Warioware meets every old game you've ever played.

It could have been great.

Instantaction.com has an open beta going on for their web games that are pretty serious looking and run in your browser, no downloads necessary. The killer app is a Tribes clone that should be released shortly.

Also, Shift 2 is out. Go play that too.

A chance to feel good about helping poor people and show off your fancy liberal arts education? Free Rice is definitely something that white people like.

This dude is here to remind you with his physics playground program called "Phun". Windows only for now, those supposedly there's an OSX version in the works for those of you in the cult of Mac.

Imagine a game in which the main characters are a tarantula and a scorpion.

Now stop imagining it and check out the video.