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free online games stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - Readers who find Newser too challenging can rest their brains with online games that play out major news events. Often linked via social networking sites, millions of Web surfers are killing pig-like viruses, tossing shoes at President Bush, or landing a plane in the Hudson River in popular Flash games.... More »

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Internet • online news • flash games • free online games

Forbidden City Opens Its Doors—to Virtual Eunuchs

Second Life-style game allows tourists to enter Chinese palace complex

Oct 12, 08 4:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's now possible to visit one of Beijing's premier tourist sights without having to worry about bad air quality or hard-to-get visas, Reuters reports. A new computer game allows users to experience the Qing emperor's Forbidden City complex as member of his court, embodying any character from soldier to eunuch—... More »

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China • Forbidden City • virtual worlds • free online games • avatar

War Game
Takes Colleges
by Storm

CoCrossCampus blends online play with real life interaction

Mar 21, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Somewhere, Harvard is plotting an assault on Yale, while Cornell forges an alliance with Princeton. Such mass maneuvers are routine in GoCrossCampus, a Risk-like online war game in which teams of hundreds of players move armies across virtual versions of real campus locations. But it’s the real-world interaction, as... More »

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social networking • Internet • free online games • online gaming • Yale

TV Nets Hope Games Will Hook Viewers

CBS multimedia contest offered clues online and off

Dec 7, 07 2:51 PM CST
(Newser) - TV networks are using scavenger hunt-style games to attract viewers to their shows. Hundreds of players searched for clues online and offline, including on billboards in San Francisco and Minnesota, to crack a game linked to the CBS show "Numb3rs" last month. The network plans to promote more shows... More »

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television • advertising • free online games • computer games • CBS television stations • Numb3rs

MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray

Oct 23, 07 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are tens of thousands of people in your extended network, and they might be playing Gem Quest come January. MySpace plans to host hundreds of easy-to-learn online games to, as one company VP put it, “enhance the fun factor”—and grab a slice of the game industry’... More »

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Yahoo • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • flash games • free online games • Oberon Media • News Corp • video games

5 Flash Games to Ease You Into the Workweek

Free online offerings get better at helping you waste time

Oct 8, 07 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Flash games aren’t just Tetris rip-offs anymore. Online freebies are more innovative and ambitious than ever, GigaOM says, and they include these five must-play distractions:
  • Grow Cube: A quirky, imaginative puzzler that forces you to think ahead and rewards you with nice animations.
  • Warbears: Lead a crack
... More »

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games • flash • flash games • free online games • Dai Pai Dong • Tanks • Grow Cube • Warbears

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