Stalking Venus

If you’re old enough to remember DOS games, then you’ll probably have played The Incredible Machine.
Well, this is very similar, only it’s a simplified online version called Fantastic Contraption. The idea is to get the little red thing into the other little red thing. This isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds.

The reason it’s not [...]

The always excellent Utter Insanity blog has a link to this rather funky website ranking web application. Apparently StalkingVenus is worth $2971! God knows how they come up with the results, but it’s a bit of fun anyway.
Do you own a website? Go get yourself ranked!

I ran across this yesterday and decided I’d give it a try. Several hours later, I forced myself to save and exit, or I would have ended up getting carpal tunnel syndrome in my eyes! GemCraft is one of those really simple games, but with totally addictive gameplay.

The idea is pretty simple. Beasties come out [...]

Well folks, that was fun. StalkingVenus started out in 1st place and then slowly dropped back to around 1000th place or so. Thanks to all who boosted our balloon!! Thanks to Orange for creating a fun game that showed us loads of new sites.
Race results here soon.

In just a few hours, hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of balloons will begin floating across the internet. Don’t forget to go and give the Stalking Venus raccoon balloon an extra little push by clicking the orange balloon floating at the bottom right of the screen. Each time you push him, he gets to [...]

Stalking Venus has joined the world’s first Internet balloon race! See the balloon raccoon bobbing about at the bottom right-hand side of the screen? Well, he’s going to be the Stalking Venus balloon racing champion.
All you have to do is wait until the balloon race starts in a few days time (see our sidebar on [...]

If you’ve ever hacked-and-slashed your way through the mind-numbing tedium of an online roleplaying game, even one as good as World of Warcraft, you’ll like this. Greg Costikyan, has designed and developed a parody of WoW that fondly takes the piss out of the entire genre.
He’s created a flash-based side-scrolling game with his tongue placed [...]

I’m new to the Playstation, having recently made the switch from PC gaming to console gaming, so I have to admit that I didn’t really know what all the fuss was about with this game.
Everybody - including people who don’t play games at all - was going on about it long before it was even [...]

This is currently my favourite work diversion. It’s a free web based game that allows you to start and expand a civilization. The cool thing about it is that you can login, set something in motion (e.g. upgrade the town hall) and then log off again.
The game keeps going while you’re away, so that [...]