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Why an Athletes’ Creed? Because 81% of athletes surveyed said it’s better to win than play fair

By web gangsta | Published: July 19, 2010



Good Sport
Good Sport

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”.

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Flash Fun: Castlewars and Castlewars 2

By web gangsta | Published: June 11, 2010



Princess Castle
Princess Castle

If you’re looking for a quick Flash game to play to kill time during your lunch hour, you can’t go wrong with a quick game of CASTLEWARS (or, spelled with a space as CASTLE WARS).

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Flash Fun: “Cursed Treasure – Don’t Touch My Gems” tower defense

By web gangsta | Published: May 21, 2010


Tower Defense

If there’s one type of video game that Web Watch can’t get enough of, it’s games in the TOWER DEFENSE genre.  We’ve already talked about the GUY WHO INVENTED THE ORIGINAL TOWER DEFENSE GAME, along with a REALLY DEEP AND VARIED VERSION in GEMCRAFT CHAPTER 0.

Here is another variation on the Tower Defense theme entitled CURSED TREASURE – DON’T TOUCH MY GEMS.

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Flash Fun: This Is The Only Level Too – sequel to Achievement Unlocked

By web gangsta | Published: May 11, 2010



Video Game Achievements
Video Game Achievements

Remember a few months ago when WEB WATCH told you about ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED, the game where you had to manuever an elephant around a screen full of deadly spikes in order to complete a series of tasks, ultimately fulfilling all of your achievement goals outlined by the game’s creator?

Well, the game author is back with a new creation to drive you batty:  THIS IS THE ONLY LEVEL TOO, a platform game where the premise is basically the same:  you have to move your elephant character around the deadly screen in order to complete the game.

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The top reason to play guitar? “Enlightenment”. The top reason not to play guitar? ‘Cause you’re a girl

By web gangsta | Published: April 29, 2010



Guitar for Dummies
Guitar for Dummies

A few years ago, Web Watch learned how to play the guitar.  It was just a beat-up six-string that we picked up from a second-hand store.  We weren’t very good, but we struggled through.  Never really started rockin’, but at least we were trying.

What kept us going was the TEN REASONS TO PLAY GUITAR:

  1. Mating – because every chick loves themselves a guitar god
  2. Piss off Your Parents – especially when the amp stays cranked up to 11
  3. An Alternative to the Sporting Life – face it, for every football team, there has to be a marching band.  And how many guitar players do you know in the marching band?
  4. Improve Your Vocabulary – songwriting and musical arts. Finding words that rhyme.  You know, English class stuff
  5. Be the Life of the Party – because the party don’t start til you show up
  6. Form a Band and Join the Circus – sometimes they’re one and the same
  7. Head start on a Psychology or Management Degree – ditto
  8. Versatility – “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball” applies to guitar players, too
  9. Slay Your Idols – just prove you’re better than they are
  10. Enlightenment – music is your life.  Learn it, live it, love it.

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How Many Classic Arcade Games Can You Name? (It’s the arcade version of Where’s Waldo?)

By web gangsta | Published: March 22, 2010


Arcade Fever - The Golden Age of Video GamesArcade Fever – The Golden Age of Video Games

Web Watch is a big fan of the classic video games that populated arcades back in the 80′s and early 90′s.

Not like today’s gaming arenas, filled with craptastic ticket-dispensing machines that teach kids different variations of gambling in order to “earn” enough tickets to buy a lousy stuffed animal that would have cost half as much if purchased directly from the local Toys R Us.

No, we’re talking the classic quarter-munching games like Galaga, Ms Pac Man, Defender, i-Robot, Dig Dug, Robotron, and others from the best game years.

Laugh all you want, Nintendo-boy.  We liked our games simple, with a single joystick and maybe two buttons.  Cheesy audio and bad graphics were state-of-the-art at the time… and you still felt as if you got your quarter’s worth every time you played.

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Betcha can’t name the Most Played Video Game of All Time

By web gangsta | Published: January 26, 2010


Mobile Gaming Smartphones

Can you name the MOST PLAYED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME?

It’s not MS PAC MAN.

It’s not TETRIS.

It’s not even Microsoft Windows’ SOLITAIRE card game (although that one should qualify as the most played video game in the office environment).

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Flash Fun: Minions on Ice (from the creators of the *new* Desktop Tower Defense)

By web gangsta | Published: January 14, 2010


Desktop Tower Defense

Sometimes, all you want to do is climb into a heavy-duty tank and blow up someone else up in a massive game of capture-the-flag.

That’s just what you do in MINIONS ON ICE, one of the many games from David Scott and the CREATIVE COLLECTIVE, the creators of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE.  

Yeah, that’s right.  David Scott is one of the masterminds behind Creative Collective, and he’s the guy who practically invented the Tower Defense genre that has killed so much of our free time with games such as Flash Element TD or variations from other developers like GEMCRAFT Chapter Zero.  

What we’re trying to say here is that this is the gaming site behind one of the forces behind the casual gaming movement.  Web Watch wouldn’t steer you wrong on this.  Trust us – this stuff is good.

(Which reminds Web Watch – there’s a new version of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE available for Facebook users, with weekly updated maps.  Thought you’d want to know.)

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Need a retro videogame fix? The Atari arcade is now online!

By web gangsta | Published: November 30, 2009


Atari joystickGrowing up in the 80′s, having a Atari home video game console was as much of a status symbol as having a PS3 with the full Rock Band setup was a year ago (now, not as much since everyone seems to have it by now).

But as we’ve gotten older, we’ve lost the power cords and couldn’t find the replacement Atari 2600 joysticks that we had set aside in case of emergencies such as this.

This is why Web Watch is thrilled that Atari has taken it upon themselves to open their free online ATARI ARCADE website, featuring the best of their original games just for you.

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Want to star in a Hollywood Movie? Try YOOSTAR

By web gangsta | Published: November 11, 2009


Yoostar video game movie systemRemember that Drew Carey show with Drew and all his funny friends from WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY doing all their improv stuff in front of a green screen?

Wouldn’t it be fun to do that at home, but instead of having to improvise comedy, all you have to do is insert yourself into a real movie and act out the scene yourself?

Now’s your chance to YOOSTAR!

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