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In LAX Attax: Lacrosse the aim is to score as many goals as possible.

• Your team-mate feeds you the ball.
• Move to the target to catch the ball.
• Drag and place the crosshair to aim at he goals, then press and hold the left mouse button and draw back.
• Fling the mouse straight upward while releasing the mouse button. The speed and accuracy of the shot towards the target.
• Fling the mouse left and up, or right and up to curve the shot away from the target. This can fool the goalie.
• Repeat the process until time expires. There are four periods.
• To submit your score to the scoreboard, press the Quit/Submit button in the game.

Genre: Sports
Time to Play: 10 minutes
Difficulty: medium
Available from: ESPN
Play LAX Attax: Lacrosse here.

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Posted By: Ian - Category: Sport

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Big League Bash

June 27th 2007 10:56

Big League Bash is a new popular baseball game where you try and hit as many home runs as you can, then submit your score to the leader board to try and be the best.

The game is quite simple to play, the controls are as follows:

• Press and hold the mouse button down to get ready for a pitch.

• Fling the mouse upward while simultaneously releasing the button.

• The speed of your fling determines the distance of your hit.

• The timing of your fling determines the direction of your hit.

• To submit your score to the scoreboard, press the Quit/Submit button in the game.

Genre: Baseball
Time to Play: 10 minutes
Difficulty: medium
Available from: ESPN
Play Big League Bash here.

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Fowl Words

June 25th 2007 10:38

Fowl words is an incredibly addictive word game that will have you scrambling to form words from the supplied letters.

Unscramble letters and find as many words as you can in this egg-citing word game. Predict how many words you can find in a group of seven letters, and then match that number and move on to the next level, or keep going for more and more points! Featuring a Timed mode for those who like a little pressure, and an Untimed mode for those who want a more relaxing word game.

Genre: Word Games
Time to Play: 10 minutes
Difficulty: medium
Available from: arcadebang
Play Fowl Words here.

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PlanetSide

June 22nd 2007 09:51

PlanetSide is a Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter computer game published by Sony Online Entertainment and released on May 19, 2003.

In PlanetSide three Empires fight for control of about 10 vast planets. Each soldier in each Empire is a human player. At a particular moment in time there may be hundreds of players online. A player may choose to be a generic soldier or to specialize in a certain role such as tank driver, sniper, commander or more. To be successful in PlanetSide, a player needs skills in cooperation, situational awareness and fast reflexes.

At any one time, each of the three PlanetSide servers host hundreds of players fighting a persistent war on foot, in ground vehicles or in the air across desert wastes, icy mountains, lush forests or dank swamps. The goal is simple: each faction must attempt to capture as many facilities as possible on the surface of the planet whilst denying them to their enemies. There are many strategies and opportunities for tacticians to divert the flow of battle and learning the intricacies and depth of the game can take many months. The player controls his chosen character from a first-person perspective and can travel about the vast environments on foot or in one of the many available vehicles. Combat is fast-paced and does not suffer from the 'hands-off' feel of many other Massively Multiplayer Online Games.

Before entering combat, it is important for a tactician to identify:

The empire affiliation of the enemy. Each empire has a particular theme for their weapons and vehicles, and a leader should equip his troops to counter such.
What vehicles they may encounter. There are several types of bases, but only a few types can create heavy vehicles (tanks, bombers, etc.) and a leader needs to make sure, usually through a flyover by a scout aircraft, what vehicles he needs to worry about.

To get started with PlanetSide visit the official site here. It includes game information, gallery, downloads, free online game trial and news. Also offers player leader boards and statistics.

A Terran Republic Command Rank 5 healing in the Caverns.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article PlanetSide.
**This image is used here under fair use and came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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Darkfall

June 20th 2007 09:35

Darkfall is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in development by Aventurine SA that combines real-time action and strategy in a fantasy setting. Expected to feature unrestricted pvp, complete looting, and a player skill dependant combat system, Darkfall is highly anticipated by the player versus player (PvP) community. Developers claim that the game is currently in private beta testing, and Aventurine has an internal goal to begin the open beta in Summer 2007.

There are six playable races in Darkfall. Unlike other MMOG's, racial choice does not heavily influence your characters choices or progression options: 95% of the skills may be learned regardless of your race, the remainder are Prestige/Racial abilities. Each race begins play in their own homeland, and have their own unique storylines, histories, and racial alliances/enemies. The races are as follows:

Darkfall is expected to have several features that set it apart from the majority of MMORPGs:
• Unrestricted PvP, with no safe zones. Game mechanics will punish killing of racial allies. (see alignment section below).
• Complete looting. All items will be dropped on death, and can be looted by anyone who opens the corpse. Armor and weapons will be somewhat easy to replace.
• Inter-character and projectile-character collision detection. Projectiles (spells, arrows, cannonballs etc.) can be dodged. Players can be pushed or blocked by other players or by explosions.
• Manual aiming & blocking.
• Naval warfare, with the ability to sink player controlled ships.
• Dynamic, physical weather.
• No radar or floating names (Player made clan banners worn for identification.)
• Ranged combat will be viewed from first person perspective. Melee combat will be viewed from third person perspective.
• Friendly fire. If you miss with spells or arrows you may hit someone other than the character you were targeting. Area of effect offensive spells and healing spells can affect your friends and your enemies.
• Cities can be built by players.
• Player built cities can be destroyed. Each player built city will contain a guildstone, which protects the buildings and defensive structures in the vicinity from attack. The guildstone is invulnerable, except when it has been weakened by a Gloomer. Gloomers can be built by players after they have built a siege fort next to the target city. The siege fort can be attacked and destroyed at any time, during or after construction. If a city is destroyed, a new clanstone constructed on the site is temporarily vulnerable to attack.
• There will be a limit on the number of players and NPC's that can bind to a clanstone.

To find out more, visit the official Darkfall site here.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Darkfall.
**This image is used here under fair use. It came from the same Wikipedia page as above.

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World War II Online: Battleground Europe

June 18th 2007 09:17

World War II Online: Battleground Europe, commonly referred to as WWIIOL:BE, WW2OL or BE is a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter computer game (MMOFPS) set in 1940-42 World War II Europe. It is a combined arms war simulation otherwise known as a virtual battlefield. A player can command or crew a variety of accurately modelled aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft artillery, and naval vessels, or fight as a foot-soldier with a variety of infantry weapons. The game is played in real time along-side or against other players as German, British (UK) and French forces in a 24/7 persistent world. Command structures and missions provide strategic and tactical layers while ranks provide a RPG layer by demonstrating leadership roles. WWIIOL online uses of a ½ scale map of Western Europe with 30,000 km² of accurate terrain (800 m resolution satellite data). It is commonly recognized as the first MMOFPS.

World War II Online: Battleground Europe Map

The position of the front lines on the map is updated every 5 minutes on World War II Online's home page.

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Mankind

June 15th 2007 12:27

Mankind is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) computer game published in December 1998 by the French computer game developer Vibes.

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Darkness and Light

June 13th 2007 11:30

Darkness and Light or more commonly known as D.A.L is a free Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Game (MMORTS). In the game, you can choose a character and turn them into a battlefield hero by repelling your enemies with strong weapons and magic skills. Like Shattered Galaxy, the game's aims are to conquer the base camp of your opponent.

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Shattered Galaxy

June 11th 2007 11:07

Shattered Galaxy, the world's first published massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS), combines the excitement of real-time strategy with the character development of role-playing in a persistent online world.
When you play Shattered Galaxy, you enter a community of thousands of gamers like yourself. Fight with hundreds in an ever-evolving universe!
Discover new friends, new strategies and new technologies

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Spades

June 8th 2007 12:34

Spades is a trick-taking card game somewhat akin to Hearts and Bid Whist but more closely related to bridge.

Basic Game Play:
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Tank Mania

June 6th 2007 11:28

Tank Mania was originally an experimental project created by Tomas Eriksson. But since releasing the game on the internet, the game has proved to be hugely popular among players from all over the world. Therefore, Tomas has improved the gameplay and is currently working on a new version which hopes to involve 4-way team play. The new version has been under development for some time however, and its release date is hoped to be September 2007.

Tank Mania has two main game modes

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War Rock

June 4th 2007 11:23

War Rock is a multiplayer online first-person shooter available free for download, as well as a commercially-sold retail package. The retail version comes with added features in comparison to the free version. War Rock has low system requirements compared to other games of the same genre.

The game is set in the midst of a civil war between the government of Derberan and the rebel organization NIU. Players select between the two teams and engage in battles using 20th and 21st century military equipment, including a large assortment of infantry weapons and vehicles

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Soldier Front

June 1st 2007 12:10

Soldier Front, commonly abbreviated as SF, is a tactical first-person shooter hosted by ijji.

Soldier Front is a online team based FPS that resembles War Rock or Counterstrike. There are 3 different game modes: Single Battle, Team Battle, and Clan Battle. Players join either the red team or the blue team and battle the opposing team to accomplish predetermined objectives (except in Single Battle). At the start of a round, the opposing teams spawn simultaneously at predetermined start points on the map and proceed with the mission. When one team completes their objective/eliminates the opposing team, they score a "win", and the map resets. The team that achieves the predetermined amount of "wins" first wins the match. Guns, grenades, and armour must be purchased in a shop beforehand; once purchased, the gun/grenade remains in your inventory permanently unless you sell it. Armour is "rented", meaning that after a certain period of time they are unequipped and taken out of your inventory and must be "rented" again in order to continue usage. Guns, grenades, and armour are bought with SP, the currency of SF

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