Tower defense games are nothing new. Neither, for that matter, is steampunk. But how about putting two great tastes that taste great together together? Steampunk Tower has you fighting off waves of steam-powered tanks and floating dirigibles. Hurry up and build those defenses (including a Tesla-inspired lightning gun). Steampunk Tower's unique system allows you to take your weapons offline for repair and reloading. Just be sure you've got a few big guns in reserve as your tower gets bigger and bigger. Those artfully rusty enemies aren't going to give you any slack!

 

Adult Swim’s awesomely destructive, Atari 2600-style game Mountain Maniac gets a holiday makeover in Mountain Maniac Xmas. You're Santa (or a poor approximation thereof) and are tasked with smashing huge boulders off a mountaintop. Control their descent to cause maximum carnage. And watch out for rampaging reindeer!

 

It’s Friday night. It’s lovely outside. I’ve been trying to write something informative and newsy ... but I can’t concentrate long enough to finish a coherent serious sentence. I’m restless and in the mood for some people-watching.

If you’re similarly stuck inside in front of your computer on this balmy evening, itchily unable to satisfy your voyeuristic urges, I offer this clever timelapse creation by Jeff Deasom as a meager solution.

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Holiday-themed Flash games are uniformly awful. And Thanksgiving-themed games are the worst of the lot. So Armor Games did us a favor when they took their already-entertaining Chuck the Sheep and dressed ol’ Chuck up in a turkey suit for Thanksgiving. You play Chuck, a sheep (or a turkey, I guess), who’s trying to escape the farm in some sort of homemade catapult/rocket. Launch yourself out of the barnyard and try to get as far as possible. Get a move on! You’re about to be sheared. Or served up for Thanksgiving dinner. One or the other. Or both. I'm kinda confused.

 

Remember when you were a kid and you made little buildings out of blocks just so you could knock them down? Rubble Trouble Tokyo has much the same feel. In this addictive puzzler, you’re in charge of a demolition company whose job it is to destroy buildings. Only your workers don't want to do it the old fashioned way. They want to use rockets and sumo wrestlers and giant robots and huge pachinko balls to take down the local architecture. Who are you to argue? Just get the job done!

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Don’t forget your parasol

“I hate the stuffy theater in the summer! More outdoor performances!” you shout. “Gimme free stuff to do with my kids because they’re out of school and they’re totally driving me bonkers being around all day!”

 

Dinosaur Zookeeper has now leaped to the top of my list of dream jobs. Alas, the actual career doesn’t exist. But, thanks to Adult Swim’s game Dinosaur Zookeeper, we can all get some early, on-the-job training until science catches up with us. The game is your basic business sim. Place dinosaurs, build fences, keep the carivores away from the herbivores. Also, try and keep casualties of park visitors at a minimum. That just seems like good business practice for any field.

 

Blake’s Lotaburger opened their first location on July 9, 1952. Now, 58 years later, you can enjoy a free Lotaburger Combo. Sounds like a good reason to take the day off work.

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