Wallpaper of the Day: Antennae Galaxy
This is an amazing picture from National Geographic: Antennae Galaxy
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Archive for: space
Alien Decapitator Double
Double the game for your money this April Fool’s Day, two games based on roughly the same premise; aliens come to visit. They take over our minds and bodies, and for some reason embark on a massive bloody killing spree. Presumably this is some kind of inter-stellar tourist package holiday; five nights in the Sol system, all the blood you can spill, and an economy class ride home on next week’s Vogon freighter back to Sirius. I feel an epic space-exile backstory coming on…
Gamma Bros. – Old School Arcade Action
I am secure. I am content, happy, and even smug. Here is a flash game of such startling excellence that no-one will be able to deny it. If you can’t finish it now, you will come back, if you can’t come back you will weep hot, salty tears at the thought that you have missed out on the glorious satisfaction of shooting the last, laser toting, brain-in-a-jar-in-a-spaceship boss out into the unforgiving vacuum.
Pick either the ginger one or the black one of the presumably adopted Gamma Brothers, let the little worm guys launch your personalised flying saucer from the mothership (why they can’t use the mothership to fight the horde I don’t know), and battle with a swarm of tricky, varied, rewarding enemies. This game has seriously got it all, powerups, boss fights, a great soundtrack, acid-vivid 16 bit colours, and a happy ending: you can even bring your mates back from the dead.
The Space Game – superbly polished flash game from the Casual Collective
This is one of the best and smoothest RTS games that I’ve seen in a while – reminiscent of Homeworld, if you stripped it down to a tower defence game. You have no mobile units, but build a resource collection and base defence network, all hooked in to your power generation and storage grid. There’s nothing crazily innovative about this game, but it’s such a well executed iteration of this type that it really deserves playing. There are bonus modes available if you register over at the Casual Collective website, and they have some other quite slick looking projects up there. Missile turrets are a good bet until the little yellow ring ships turn up, when you’ll need big lasers… Enjoy!
Bottle Rocket
Description: Try and launch your bottle as high as you can. Can you get it to break the earths atmosphere.
Instructions: Press the Launch button to enter launch mode. The bottle rocket will fill with water. Click the Mouse to stop the bottle filling. Now a count down will appear above the bike pump. You have until the clock runs out to fill your bottle with as much air as possible. To fill simply click and drag the Pump Handle up and down, just like a real Pump. The more air and water you put in the higher your bottle will go. Once the Rocket is in the air guide it through the air by moving the mouse left or right(the mouse must be higher than the bottle). Avoid hitting clouds, and pick up the bonus to go even higher. Goods Luck!