Last year, Web Watch told you about GEMCRAFT CHAPTER 0, one of the better, more involved games in the Tower Defense genre of computer games.
The folks at GAME IN A BOTTLE have been pretty busy recently, and have released a sequel entitled GEMCRAFT LABYRINTH. And as sequels go, it’s a fine addition to the line. If you’re a tower defense fan, you’ll definitely want to check this one out.
Prisoner of Trebekistan – A Decade of Jeopardy!
Many years ago, Web Watch had an opportunity to take the JEOPARDY! contestant test.
It wasn’t easy – 50 rapid-fire questions that were asked so quickly so as to not give you the opportunity to go back and correct answers that you thought you’d be able to answer later lest you lose track of the current questions being asked.
Needless to say, we’re sometimes not the best test takers under pressure. We missed the cut to move to the next round by 2 wrong answers.
It happens. Maybe next time.
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TSA Security Checkpoint Playset
What is expected to be the hottest selling toy this holiday season?
Considering it’s currently sold out at many retailers, the TSA AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKPOINT PLAYSET from Playmobil is right at the top of the list.
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Have you caught the ANGRY BIRD craze for your iPhone, Android, or other mobile device?
Would it help to know that ANGRY BIRDS is coming to WII and XBOX LIVE, and PS3 soon?
How about that some math geeks have determined that the RED ANGRY BIRD is 70cm TALL?
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If you, like Web Watch, love playing boardgames and videogames, then you need to pop over to your local libary on NOVEMBER 13th to celebrate NATIONAL GAMING DAY.
As part of the celebration, over 1800 participating libraries are going to try to set a world record for the LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENT.
See? Who says that libraries need to be all quiet and stuffy?
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The AMAZON KINDLE is great: whenever a new book release comes out, you can pretty much instantly download that book to your Kindle and begin reading immediately.
The hard part is knowing what books — or movies, or DVD’s, or video games — are being released each week so that you can be prepared ahead of time. Sometimes things get released and you just haven’t been paying attention.
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Web Watch would like to take a moment to salute the marketing geniuses at McDonald’s for continuing the McDONALD’s MONOPOLY PROMOTION. It combines two great things into a singular quest to find the special missing sticker that will complete your game board. Boo-ya!
Let’s cut straight to the chase: there is absolutely nothing for you to do that will affect your ability to win this contest… other than doing everything you can to obtain as many game pieces as possible in the hopes that one of them is a rare chaser piece.
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Ken Jennings Trivia Almanac, featuring 8,888 trivia questions
Ken Jennings is a trivia master.
He’s the 2nd greatest earnings champion in JEOPARDY! history, but has won more overall game show earnings than any other contestant. He has a few books, of course – he even has his own CAN YOU BEAT KEN board game. He even won GRAND SLAM, the trivia contest that pitted all the top game show contestants against each other to see who truly was the best.
In interviews, Ken has said that nobody can really know it all, and there were a number of Jeopardy! questions that he simply guessed the answers to. Granted, they were highly educated guesses – but they were guesses nonetheless.
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Today, Web Watch would like to play a little game with you. We’re going to provide you a list of celebrities along with a list of sexually-transmitted diseases, and challenge you to GUESS WHICH CELEBRITY (allegedly) HAS WHICH STD?
First, here are our contestants!
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On the season 2 opener of ABC’s Cougar Town, the cast sat around drinking wine (as they are apt to do on this show) while they played their new MOVIE TITLE MASHUP DRINKING GAME.
Let’s let Ian Gomez explain it to us:
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Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook
Web Watch went to school with a bunch of nerds.
Granted, today’s economy is run by nerds – and considering how many people are sucked into wasting their time on Facebook and Twitter, it looks like the nerds did get their revenge.
Except back then, nerds weren’t just computer-oriented folk. Sometimes, those same kids would wander out of the computer lab and into broad daylight – proudly holding their DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PLAYERS GUIDE, MONSTERS MANUAL, or 20-SIDED DICE as they shuffled off to their next D&D encounter.
Continue reading "Use the Adventure Generator to not make Leeroy Jenkins wait any longer than he has to"
While we know that Web Watch proclaimed that THIS IS THE ONLY LEVEL TOO was a sequel to the hit Flash platformer ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - we admit that we weren’t really being extremely honest with you, the Web Watch reader.
Oh, it was a worthy game in the Achievement Unlocked pantheon, but it wasn’t a sequel in the true sense of the word.
So Web Watch is here with an apology, and a make-good link for you:
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When it comes to sports – and more importantly, how athletes present themselves both on and off the field – times have changed a lot over the past few years.
With Soccer Parents getting into fights with coaches over why their kids aren’t getting enough field time, fighting-enducing trash-talking during a game, athletes climbing into the stands to punch out hecklers, or even some sports where the scoreboard is being taken away entirely “because kids don’t want the pressure to have to win” — the reason for sports to exist in the first place are slowly falling down by the wayside as the “spirit of competition” gives way to “winning at all costs”.
Continue reading "Why an Athletes’ Creed? Because 81% of athletes surveyed said it’s better to win than play fair"
Monopoly Casino Slot Machine Game
If you have ever been to Las Vegas, then you should be familiar with one of the most popular slot machine game themes ever made: Monopoly. (Yes, the ubiquitious Wheel! of! Fortune! games are a more popular theme, but that’s a different article for a different day).
And when it comes to playing Monopoly – playing the Monopoly-themed slot machine is certainly one way to say that you have played the World’s Fastest Game of Monopoly.
But you would be incorrect, as the slot machine is not the board game, and when it comes to talking smack about Monopoly, it’s all about the board game.
So, Web Watch readers, we ask you this question: assuming you play exactly by the listed rules in a standard set of Monopoly, WHAT IS THE SHORTEST AMOUNT OF TIME THAT A MONOPOLY GAME CAN BE PLAYED?
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Some last minute tips for your 2011 NCAA basketball tournament bracket
Wilson NCAA Men’s Basketball 2011 Final Four Bracket Basketball
For college basketball fans, it’s the week that matters. When office workers everywhere stop pretending to do work when filling out their brackets and start pretending to do work while sneaking in a mini-TV to hide under their desks so they don’t miss a minute of CBS’s coverage.
This is one benefit of the switch to digital TV, that you won’t find as many portable TV sets hiding at the office as you used to — but there’s always the Internet, so as long as your network administrator hasn’t blocked access to the streaming video websites, you should be good.
So a few weeks ago, Web Watch shared some TIPS FOR FILLING OUT YOUR 2011 BASKETBALL BRACKET. Since then, some additional information has come out that we thought we’d share with you.
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