Marco Polo

Occasionally, someone will ask a game related question, and I don't have a clue what the answer is. If you know the answers to any of the following, let me know!

1- Where did the name of the game 'Marco Polo' come from.  I've gotten frustrated questions from several folks who have actually done college-level research trying to find the answer, but all have failed...

I have posted some of the answers to these and other questions that I have gotten so far.  It's an interesting mix...

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Run Bolt Run

Run Bolt Run your the dog Bolt and need to rescue the girl Penny. Really great bolt game, have fun!


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The Old Wild West

The Old Wild West shoot'em up. You are the sherrif, Make a fast draw and shoot the bad guy!

Instructions: Wait for the slightest move from your apponent, and press the "SPACEBAR" to shoot.

If you shoot too early you loose your badge.

If you win you go up against the next bad guy!

U.S. higher-education system

Does this article apply to you?

If you are at least somewhat smart and ambitious and if you are pursuing a career in which a Master's degree is at all useful (most fields) and you intend to get one, and if the cost of  tuition is an issue, then this article applies to you. The main reason that this article may not apply (other than being filthy rich): a Bachelor's degree is your terminal degree, and you don't have the capacity or motivation to excel above other students at a state-run 4-year institution. If your SATs are above 1200, then your only excuse is laziness. In most careers, a Master's degree is required. Only your terminal school matters; I discuss here how to exploit this.
The Optimal Path

First off, because it's relevant here, my credentials: I'm a PhD student at Stanford. I've seen many people, some very close to me, go through the University system. I've seen what works and what doesn't.
Here's the typical failure story: Pay $40k/year to go to a "prestigious" private school (say, "Brown", a very good school), graduate $100k in debt, and do a Masters at a nameless school that offers a financial aid package, e.g., San Jose State, because more debt would be unbearable. Here's the thing: the Brown education just became worthless.

Employers care almost exclusively about your last degree: you are now a San Jose State graduate.
Here's what I view to be the optimal path: Go to a cheap (but flagship) state school (e.g., Penn State), enroll in the Honors program (due to great high school grades), pay virtually nothing, and then (marginally) get into an incredible Master's program at a school like Princeton; although admissions are unexpectedly lax, most people won't be able to pay that price, but because you skimped on undergrad, you're able to pay it. Congrats: you're a Princeton grad. For $60K. You gamed the system: you got the pedigree for just one years' tuition, at a school you probably couldn't have been admission to for undergrad.
How to game the system

Books abound on the subject. I will give the salient points here.
High School

Obviously, get near-straight A's. I know it seems hard now, but you have no idea how important this effort is to your future; an hour spent to get an A now is as important to your future as 100 hours during your PhD. Man up and do it; I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Take AP classes, and do a few extracurriculars. Obviously, if you enjoy one particularly, then do it. Otherwise, if you're just doing it for show, you might as well juice it up: do debate club and a sport (like tennis or golf). It will (probably incorrectly, but that's okay) show that you're both well-rounded and smart, with a minimal time investment.
Here's what virtually nobody knows, but is very important: DO RESEARCH (by this, I mean, do academic research with the hope of publishing in a journal). Virtually none of your peers will do this--they just don't get it. But, second-hand reports from a Stanford admissions officer suggest that doing some (necessarily, mundane) research for a college professor is the most important factor in admissions. Mass-email professors (by that, I mean, send at least 20 profs carefully tailored and personalized emails offering your services for free), even at very low-rate universities. Take the best position you get--this will likely be the key that moves you to the top of the stack of college applicants. Do you notice that this is a hard, awkward step? Only the ambitious do it, and because of that anybody who does it will likely be successful. That's why it matters.  
Your main goal (unless money is no object) should be getting either a) free-ride admission to a great private school, or (more likely, and nearly as good) b) admission to the "honors college", or its equivalent, at the state school at which you receive in-state tuition. I know it's not your dream college--but trust me, you won't regret not being saddled with $120K of debt. And, state schools are particularly known for sending their top students to great grad schools.
College

Take this phase of your career very seriously. The professors may hold an "A+" carrot in front of you--don't go for it. Or, at least, go for in the context of what it means for your future. Remember, your only point in college (besides having fun and developing as a person) is to get into your chosen Masters program: the prestige of your Masters program determines your future salary, job, and status.
Here's the key: LISTEN: PAY ATTENTION. THIS IS IMPORTANT: Your grades are only 1/3 of your admissions profile. Commonly, students treat grades more seriously than they should. Here are three almost equally weighted components of your grad school application:

1)    Grades: The courses in your major matter most.

2)    Recommendations: Can your recommenders cite specific examples of your great research abilities?

3)    Standardized Test Scores: Are they exceptional? You have no excuse to not have exceptional test scores.

Let me address these in order:
Grades: Of course these are important; but, did your efforts to get great grades detract from the other 2/3 of your application? In particular, are the grades you received in your major `excellent'? Don't sacrifice these grades to get good general-education grades; if you're going for Chemistry, nobody cares that you got a B- in English Literature. Focus on the Chemistry.
Recommendations: Who will recommend you? There should be two types of good recommenders: 1) those who advised you on some serious research, and 2) those whose classes you absolutely aced. If you're entering college, you need to carefully evaluate who these professors are, and enthusiastically engage them. Don't make them write rec's without concrete details; admissions officials are tuned to that.
Standardized Test Scores: These are 1/3 of your application. Do them well. I can only speak of the GRE, because it's the only grad-level standardized test that I've taken. Regarding the GRE, here are two tips:

*    Never get a math problem wrong. Never. If you got it wrong (during a practice test), then re-do the entire test until you get everything right. Never rush yourself.  Once you get in the habit of not making mistakes, it will persist during the test.

*    Start practicing the vocab very early. Two years until you take the test? Perfect. Learn, specifically, the `Barrons' book. If you learn each word, you will get a  near-800 on Verbal GRE, Guauranteed, and you will be instantly considered among the top applicants.
Of the math and verbal tests, only one can be gamed easily. It's the verbal. The math requires some knowledge (some tricks can help with time management, but in the end it comes down to real ability), but the verbal is totally and absolutely game-able. I studied the Barron's book, and there was not a single word on the test that I did not see in that guide; it's a simple vocabulary test, and you have no excuse not to ace it. If you memorize every word in the book (it takes a year to condition your mind to remember the definitions, but only minutes to memorize words thereafter)  then you will get an 800, virtually guaranteed.
Consider also that your composite (math + verbal) score is considered, but that it is easier to get a high score on verbal than math. I got an 800 on math and 740 on verbal; yet my percentile on math was ~92nd percentile, while my verbal was ~99th percentile. Gaming this system is a bit complicated: suffice to say, if you memorize the vocab (esp. over the course of a year or more), your composite score will be excellent.
Rationale

Why should you focus on buying a quality grad school degree, instead of a quality undergrad degree? Here are three reasons

1. Grad schools is shorter. Since tuition in grad and undergrad is similar, grad school ends up costing less.
   
   
2. State schools are respected. Grad schools want great grad students: they're the schools' lifeblood; and, grad schools know that  many, many great students need to go to state schools for financial reasons. It's free-market economics. Exploit it.
   
   
3. Grad school is more important. Particularly, whether you're moving up or down: consider (a) undergrad at Penn State, grad at Harvard, vs. (b) undergrad at Harvard, grad at Penn State. Option (a) is universally considered better, and costs much less.
   
   
4. Grad admissions are more lax: It's far easier to get into a great grad school than undergrad school, if you can pay the tuition (which is the whole point of going to the state school).

Geely car sales

A spokesman of China's private carmaker Geely said Thursday the company plans to sell two million cars globally by 2015.

Victor Young, Director of Public Relations of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd, said the company has reorganized its research institutes to help the company design more than 40 car models annually before 2015.

"Geely hopes to roll out more new car models faster and more efficiently," Young told Xinhua at an auto exhibition being held in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin province.

In the first half of 2010, Geely sales reached 195,734 units, up 42.1 percent from the same period last year. The company aims to sell 400,000 vehicles for the full year.

The automaker has put 24 cars on show at the 7th China Changchun International Automobile Fair which opened Thursday. More than 900 car models are displayed at the fair.

Geely earlier said it has won approval from the European Union regulators to buy Sweden's iconic Volvo Cars. The company said it expected to finish the acquisition in the third quarter of this year.

Vuvuzelas banned from rugby game

The noise of the vuvuzelas may not be heard after the World Cup as some other sports have banned them from grounds, with rugby taking the lead.

South Africa have confirmed that they will take on the All Blacks in a Tri-Nations Test at National Stadium, also known as Soccer City, in Soweto on August 21 but officials have maintained that the plastic horns will not be welcomed.

"We'd rather not have vuvuzelas because they will drown out calls by players at line-outs and scrums," Golden Lions President Kevin de Klerk told reporters in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

The 88,791-seat stadium will host the final of the FIFA World Cup on July 11 and creates the possibility of the largest home crowd at a Springbok Test since the touring British & Irish Lions drew an estimated 95,000 to Ellis Park in 1955.

The vuvuzela has already been banned from the tests in New Zealand, with Eden Park chief executive David Kennedy maintaining that "any vuvuzelas brought to the venue will be confiscated."

Meanwhile, the horns have also been banned from the streets of Pamplona for the opening of the San Fermin running of the bulls.

 

NBA charity game

Milwaukee Bucks star Brandon Jennings scored 23 points to give his team, composed of NBA stars, a 101-95 victory over Chinese men's national team here on Saturday.

The 21-year-old Jennings sank 10 out of 17 shots, pocketing a match-high 23 to shine in the charity-oriented game, which witnessed an exchange of players from both sides in the second half.

Toronto Raptors' Amir Johnson added 21 for the NBA star team which also featured All-Star guard Steve Nash from the Suns, Clippers' talisman Baron Davis, as well as Chase Budinger and Aaron Brooks from the Houston Rockets.

Shooting guard Yu Shulong notched a team-high 15 for China and forward Yi Li added 14.

Yao Ming, who launched the Charity tour, sat out Saturday's game as the 2.26-meter center still was recovering from the reconstructive foot surgery in the last season. The Chinese national squad also missed some big names like Yi Jianlian of the Washington Wizards and scoring guard Liu Wei.

The exhibition game is part of the Yao Foundation Charity Tour aiming to raise fund to help improve educational environment for poor children in Western China.

The tour also includes a donation-raising banquet on Friday, with a total of some 9.94 million yuan raised through charity auctions, and another exhibition game in the city of Taipei next Wednesday.

The Yao Foundation was established in 2008 in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.

The Foundation has helped to rebuild six schools in the quake-stricken area. According to the NBA All Star center, three schools have been completed, and the remaining three are to be completed by September.

Besides helping build schools, the Yao Foundation also commits

If Video Games Were Real

What would happen if video games were real?

Dead Island Review

Dead Island, the long awaited open world zombie experience from Techland and Deep Silver is here. The Shibs gives us his reaction from his time with the game.

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Sims - Maker Of The Best PC Games Ever?

 

Sims pc games have become huge all around the world but are they the best pc games ever? Just going to their official site shows you how popular they are when you have the option to choose Sims games in 22 countries and languages. Creative games where you involve yourself and often build your own worlds and communities is fun for young kids, teens and adults.

At their official site you can have free access to thousands of downloads for your games, create a personal Sims page of your own, log on to the community message boards and much more when you sign up. Personally I have never gotten into the Sims games but there are plenty out there who obviously love them.

Touchpad HP

Touchpad HP, has a very ambitious design elements that come with WebOS,
which would make for a very hard pill experience, if it has been better implemented.
As you can see, multitasking is the best in everything, but delays and errors detract
from the experience. They also do not have enough devices that can be used to divide
the sensory function. Add to that the heavier and thicker design and limited software
designed for tablet-sized device WebOS and it is certainly true that not enough IPad from
Apple or Android pills right now. Hopefully, HP can get some updates out quickly, and
possibly lower prices, to give them a better chance of penetrating this tough market.

spec :
>1GB Memory
>16GB Storage Space
>9.7-inxh XGA (1024x768) IPS Multitouch Display
>Adreno 220 Graphics
>802.11a/g/n Wireless, Bluetooth
>1.3 Megapixel Front Camera
>mirco-USB, 3.5mm Audio Jack
>9.5" x 7.5" x .54" @ 1.6 lbs.
>webOS

Play computer games

As a child, parents are advised to not often play computer games or console game. At that time I still play the sega  megadrive. Because it can make people lazy to learn, a result in school value can be ugly. I think it is still happening  today. But this is not necessary to be worried now, because the game isn’t just for fun and spend time. Because the type  of entertainment in it’s development is able to educate the players and enhance the performance. Usually games like  this made in the form of interactive learning, where users can interact with the computer while learning.
Type of the game itself can be a school lesson, such as physics. For the lesson on this one mostly realized in the  simulation experiments. For example simulation of the pulley, the player can move the pulley and add to the burden.  In other words, the reaction produced in the simulation depends on input from users.
World aviation can’t be separated from the game functions. Flight simulations are regarded as a powerful way to  familiarize new pilots in the world of aviation. In this process the young pilots are trained to be able to control the  plane began to take off, when arriving in air and time of landing. The developers of this simulation is not arbitrary in making it. As far as possible the simulation must be in accordance with the conditions in the real world, both in terms of equipment and condition of the aircraft when the plane landed and was in the air.
Seeing the benefits above, it is time the parents do not underestimate the game. Just how they lead their children to learn in a way that is easy and fun. In this way more children can receive a lesson without any coercion, in other words they do it because desire from ourselves.

Graphical computer game

In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.
William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.
In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Ralph Baer was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm. Ralph Baer first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.
In 1971, Nolan Bushnell together with Ted Dabney, created the first arcade game. It was called Computer Space, based on Steve Russell's earlier game of Spacewar!. The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell (with help from Al Alcorn) a year later in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.

PC Games No Torrents Free Download

Is it possible to get free downloadable pc games with no torrents? I don't know but there are plenty out there looking. Some have been successful using torrents and others using Limewire without torrents.

I am not going to guarantee full free downloads of pc games 100% but I've searched some and there are a couple of sites you may want to try. Check out everything-4-free.tk or bengbengpcgames.ucoz.com. These sites claim to give you the full free games with little complaints from the comments. Careful what you do go to though as many of the sites have nasty little viruses attached to them.

Impact of Computer games

Computer games are games played on a personal computer, play station and the like. Computer games are there to promote entertainment. They are created in order to provide people some options to entertain themselves. Those games that have stunts and actions are given a warning sign that it is strictly prohibited. However, there are children that imitate those stunts in real life, and that is the negative impact of such computer games. Indeed, the most negative impact to these is the addiction of people in these games. Somehow, this issue is ignored by many, but this negative impact of addicting games needs a close attention.
Addiction is a problem, no matter what reason it is, whether from drugs or drink or in terms of games, it is still a big problem. When we talk about addicting games, the people who are playing with this spent a lot of their time in front of the computer. Those people are playing the whole day that even their other activities in daily lives are forgotten. Because of these addicting games, people miss their responsibilities like going school, doing homework, study, and even their social lives. They are not minding about their real life when they started playing their favorite game. All of these things are the negative impacts of computer games related to addiction.
The MMORPGs or (massively multiplayer online role playing games), multiplayer games, online gaming, gaming communities/clubs, all of these are addicting games. WarCraft and Runescape have lots of players all over the world, and the addict players spend more than ten hours in playing these games, and they have only less time for their other activities.
The games that having a millions of players gets a higher budget marketing effort, and with the help of the addicted gamers, there are lots of time and money wasted on games every year. In addition, there are also free games available for children meaning you don�t have to pay for this. For this reason, it seems like the addicted gamers will still increased in the next generation.
Come and think about it; who will be blame for this? Is it the addicted gamers, the game developers or the addicting game itself? All of them should be blame; however the addicted gamers are more to blame because they are the ones who empty their pockets and wasting their precious time with this unimportant thing. In order to get rid of this huge problem, they should have a self control and will only play games for entertainment purposes only. They should not let this addicting games control themselves, it should start between them. Instead of wasting their time to these addicting games, they should make plans to enjoy themselves and they should know how to put a limit. The one who is addicted already should fix and restraints their self from this thing and should get involve in real life activities in order to keep their mind off of the games.

Play online puzzle games

 

Have fun and grow up your concentration by playing online puzzle games. You can esteem your intellectual level when you play such puzzle games. Puzzle games require immense concentration to solve it properly. To brush up your mental rationalization skill you can as well play puzzle games. More you play puzzle games more you get chance to improve your intelligence. Playing puzzle games can help your children to increase mental potential. This is a new way that allows your children to learn their mental abilities suggested by education specialists.
Apart from puzzle games there are wide categories of game becoming popular among all ages of people. Bikes games are in demand for long time. People who love speed and thrill bike games give them challenge to chase their instinct. Online bike games have won million hearts of the youth. Bike games are designed efficiently to make the game players feel the real biking experience. When you introduce your child to bike games they come they learn many things related to real life bike experience and also safety bike riding rules and regulations. Bike games provide a better learning process for your child without injuries. How to maintain signals, use helmets and overcome traffic related problem all these things can be learnt by playing bike games. There are many people who have instinct to win, bike games takes out their killer instinct by giving them challenges. While you feel bored play bike games to kill your boredom and learn to win. A great way to keep yourself entertained and thrills your mind.
Unlimited doze of entertainment comes free with online games which don�t cut a single penny. Many advantages can be taken by playing online games. Releasing your stress can be costly nowadays but free online games are a nice resource to stay relaxed. Stress buster games give you loads of options to boost up you concentration, confidence and to figure out your mental abilities. All these come totally free. Get loaded with ultimate fun and unlimited entertainment. Aim to win will reward you. Grab the advantages now.

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(4) AN ADDICTING GAMES SITE

Are you an online games freak in search of a website that offers you a variety of games to choose from? Then, addicting-games.org.uk should be a permanent bookmark on your browser.

This unique website unfolds before you a collection of fascinating games to satisfy players of all ages and with different likes and abilities. A simple registration makes you a member and then starts the fun. Each game has a brief description to guide newcomers through the game and of course, trial lessons can give you the feel of it before you plunge into the actual game itself. Once you’ve challenged yourself many times and mastered the game you can try your skills out against an opponent from the ever-growing list of members registered on the site.

The games are sifted into genres according to the fare they offer. Under Action/Adventure, you can choose from a variety of games. There is the Ninja Hunter where you can wield your samurai against the toughest of enemies. Never learnt Karate or Kung Fu? No problems. You can try it out here at IK, and that too without the risk of breaking your back!!! The sky is the limit they say. In the real world, that’s a tough one you will agree. But in Reach the Sky, all you need is a few deft clicks of the mouse and some well-timed keyboard moves! Feel like being Harry Potter? Well, get ready to use your charms and spells to escape from Knock-Turn Alley.

Feel like playing some real sports? Then, click on Sports link and enter the virtually real world of sports! Realize your unfinished childhood dream of being the star of the sprinting track here as you take the 100m Dash challenge. You could be living in the hot tropics but you can still have a go at Ice Hockey from your keyboard! Feel like doing a Ronaldinho stunt? Then, Kicker it is.

On those days when you are in the mood to tickle your intellectual skills, hit the Puzzles link at addicting-games.org.uk for a variety of brain tickling challenges. You can play Robert Langdon and crack the encrypted codes to get the Da Vinci Code feeling. Or try worming out of tough Labyrinths. Or piece together intricate jigsaws.

All this and a lot more under the Shooting, Racing and Miscellaneous sections awaits you. The website also offers you a profile page where you can post details about yourself which you would like to tell others. You too can browse through hundreds of other profiles to find friends with similar interests.

Shouldn’t be long before you to get addicted to this wonderful gaming site which is perfect mix of pleasure and entertainment!

(5) CALLING ALL ONLINE GAMING ADDICTS

Does the very mention of Games pump up your adrenaline and make you want to pick up the sports gear and dash off to the nearest club or gym? What do you do if there is no gym or club around? Well, you don’t have to get depressed because this is the cyber age where everything and anything is always a possibility. Including games and sports! It is a virtual explosion of play out there in cyber space where virtually all sports fields, courts and boards are created and becoming a champ is only a matter of dexterous clicks of the mouse!

The world of internet is experiencing a new high in the arena of online gaming especially after the induction of Flash and Java into browsers. While online gaming started with subscription rates for members, today it has become so popular that many sites have offers for free, though a paid member has access to more and better services.

This has given rise to many gaming links and websites wooing surfers to try out their skills. Many sites have well planned gaming choices that are attractive and also safe to use. For instance, addicting-games.org.uk is a site where a plethora of games that cater to a variety of age groups and ability levels are available. What is more, it offers a wonderful chance to mingle with other members as well through chat windows and discuss game strategies besides striking up a lasting friendship.

Though online games have been frowned upon for its addictive side effects, it is touted as one of the best ways of improving your game skills coupled with social skills. An online gamer often starts with a challenge against a programmed computer. This not only enables the gamer to sharpen his own skills but also to learn new tactics in the game. Later, when the gamer is pitched against another gamer, there is further opportunity to try out these skills, learn more and compare oneself to others, and all this from the comfort of your home. It is an arena where every player has no nationality or boundary or age limit or physical ability. All that is required is deftness with the mouse and keyboard and a zest to play!

Online gaming has become so popular that it is an essential part of many social networking sites where meeting people and making friends over a board of chess or a game of football has become a favourite pastime. Playing against an experienced, champion in the game can be a valuable lesson in picking up expert advice to improve strategies of the game. Playing against another person from another part of the world can initiate a sort of “mouse-pal ship” with meaningful exchanges of cultural information as well!!!

Online gaming is a global phenomenon and is here to stay. It is perhaps, the key to bringing about a universal union of human beings and wean people away from differences of caste, creed or religion, uniting them into peaceful earthlings.

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(1) ONLINE GAMING
Play is an important contributor to human development, maturation and learning. That is why games are an essential ingredient in the curriculum of every school and college and also a popular pastime for adults. However, today’s busy lifestyle and living in matchboxes leave neither time nor room for outdoor games. This is when the internet comes in as a saviour to all those sports freaks who lack the opportunity.

Yes, online gaming is here to stay! Though computer games have been around for as long as there have been personal computers, online gaming is an increasing pastime and is popular due to the convergence of virtual worlds, games and social networking spiced up with Rich Internet Applications. Thousands of players from all over the world come together in one massive web that knows no team, nationality or boundaries. It is just a one to one challenge in a click’s notice!

Online gaming is a multi-million dollar industry today and thousands of websites have mushroomed in cyber-space that vie for the clicks of eager online gamers. Some have their link on another website but many are a separate entity. One such site is

addicting-games.org.uk which is solely dedicated to passionate gaming. Want to set the racing track on fire? Or be the sharp detective and break a coded message? Feel like helping Mario rescue the helpless girl? Then head for addicting-games.org.uk. From racing games to puzzles to board games to Harry Potter, this fantastic site offers a plethora of options to pacify gamers of all ages, likes and abilities.

As the name suggests one might get addicted to the site and never want to pull out of it! Besides giving the gamer the opportunity to learn new games and the pleasure of sharpening existing skills, online gaming also promotes social interaction. A player could have an opponent from the other side of the world who could be many years younger and from a completely different educational background. But all that matters here is skill. Interspersed with play is a chance to interact socially too. Best of all, online gaming follows a 24 x 7 calendar which is convenient for everyone living in any time zone on earth.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab the mouse! Surf the cyber space to enter the mesmerizing world of addicting-games.org.uk and addict yourself…..forever!

(2)  BEST GAMES WEBSITE

It’s the weekend and you are bored stiff with too much TV. You are wondering what to do! Chances are you will hit the internet and logon to some social networking site to join an ever increasing web of online gamers!

The online gaming community is growing. At a fast and furious pace! And why not? There is no need of joining expensive clubs to play some golf or football. You can hit those fantastic fours and sixes against a Bret Lee delivery with a deft click of your mouse. Or blaze past Raikkonen on the winding tracks at a Grand Prix from your chair! Or, easier still, you can opt for a more intellectual challenge with games that test your skills at solving puzzles, words and other popular games like chess.

The expansion of online games is largely an outcome of easy internet access and ever growing social communities on the net. Endless possibilities have also arisen after the integration of software like Flash and Java to the internet browsers. This has enabled streaming audio and video on websites and also made user interaction easy. Ranging from simple text-based games to those with complex graphics, online games have come a long way from single user to Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

One of the resultant effects of this is the growth of websites with links to playing online games or those that are completely dedicated to the games itself. One such popular site is

addicting-games.org.uk. It is mainly a community driven online gaming website whose main focus is online games but also provides for meeting up with new people and chatting with online buddies. With 578 games categorized under various genres of action/adventure, sports, puzzles, racing, shooting etc, the site boasts of a more than 390 members and still counting! All you have to do is to log on, register and start playing. It is that simple. You can create your own profile and strike up some good online buddies as you play. The best thing is that all of it is for free and anyone can join!


So, look no further, log on to addicting-games.org.uk and discover a whole new world of challenges and fun. All from the comfort of your home!

(3) GAMES AND FRIENDS IN ONE WEB!

Are you an online gaming freak who cant wait to log on to the net to play? Then join the ever increasing web of online game addicts who pursue their gaming interests passionately. The world wide web has indeed shrunk the world by many degrees and one of the most popular gathering places are online gaming communities.

While there are many websites that offer various kinds of games for enthusiasts,

addicting-games.org.uk is one that offers its members a unique cocktail of variety and spice! With a collection of 578 games and more than 390 members, it is slated to grow with popularity. It has a simple system of registering and then, logging on to start playing.

The website addicting-games.org.uk is solely dedicated to games. In a mood for action or adventure? There are 32 different games to choose ranging from Exreme Racing to Lord of the Rings battle! There are a still more under various genres like Puzzles (like Code Breaker and Jigsaw Puzzles) Shooting (like Asteroid Attack and Liner Assault) Retro, Sports (like Billiards, Mini Golf and Football) and Racing( like 3D Motorbike racing and MotoRush). Apart from this is a collection of miscellaneous games to suit the needs of gamers who like to try out different games. For new users, there are trial lessons along with clearly mentioned rules. Some games offer the user the choice of continuing the game the next time he or she logs on. This eliminates the nuisance of starting from the easier levels all over again the next time. Statistics of games played, points won and highest ever score etc make it more interesting and meaningful. You can climb up in the rank charts as you are rated according to your playing ability and in comparison to other players.

While playing, the user can also strike up some buddies online as there is room for social interaction also here. Creating an interesting profile will definitely be an attraction to other members with similar interests and could be the beginning of a long lasting friendship for you. Facilities to chat while playing adds spice to the game because one could be interacting with a person from the other side of the world which provides a good, healthy opportunity to exchange information about the countries, culture etc.

So, enter this virtual world of online games and get hooked forever!