So recently I finagled my way into an invite to the private beta of JamLegend and gave it a try. If you don’t know what it is think Guitar Hero, free, online, and no guitar. I don’t really think this free web service is anything to go crazy about but it has potential. Read on to find out more (including Luofei’s thoughts).

You have heard of Heli Attack.  Now imagine that in ASCII art with your favorite IM lingo. And imagine you are the helicopter ROFLcopter, not the people on the ground.  Welcome to ROFL Attack.  This joke of a game is surprisingly well done.  It doesn’t hurt that the background song is “Highway to the Danger Zone”.  So as I said, you pilot a ROFLcopter and are being attacked by LOLLERskaters and LMAOplanes.  To fight back you can drop a WTFbomb, fire an OMGmissile, or shoot your ROFLing gun.  Also to …

In honor of the real Olympics in Beijing, I thought it would be a good idea to make Dolphin Olympics 2 the Free Game of the Semi-Week.  Just like the original Dolphin Olympics, the point of the game is to make the dolphin jump out of the water and do crazy tricks or go for height and airtime in the jumps.  If you can get some good reentries into the water, you will gain powerups that will allow to do some super high jumps, even into outer space.  Dolphin Olympics …

This is my first personal pick for Free Game of the Semi-Week.  While Evan enjoys games with lots of flashy tricks and crazy power-ups, I tend to prefer simpler games.  That is why I present to you: The World’s Hardest Game.  This game seems so simple; guide your square from start to finish, while avoiding blue dots and collecting yellow dots.  However, the game is very addicting and can be very difficult.  A quick search on YouTube reveals many video tutorials in how to get through the 30 levels.  Give …

Heli Attack 2, who doesn’t love shooting down helicopters while being able to slow time and jump ridiculously high? I know I do. If you want to waste a few hours of your day, give it a try. Yes I know there is a Heli Attack 3, but Heli Attack 2 is more fun, and I’ve never played Heli Attack 1. So go now, have some fun. Comment if you get an absurdly high score, and remember the golden rule: pics or it didn’t happen.

Any game that  uses time travel is bound to be awesome. In Chronotron you solve puzzles by repeatedly going back in time and helping yourself out. Obviously the more difficult puzzles take a lot of planning and only make the game more addictive. You have to work together with your past self in order to accomplish tasks. Some of you may notice that the time machine is similar to the TARDIS in Doctor Who, that only makes the game more awesome. Go play it.

Micro Olympics is pretty simple and pretty addictive. If you have important things to do today do not start playing this game because you won’t be able to stop. You launch a plane out of a cannon and need to beat a certain distance, it gets tricky pretty quickly because you can upgrade your plane.