This beautiful computer version of the classic strategy game Abalone will quickly become one of your favorite games. Played on a hexagonal board using colored marbles, your goal is to push your opponent's pieces off the board before he does the same to you.
Two hollow red ovals. A solid blue triangle. Now, is there a third tile that completes the series? Think fast--the clock is running. Or should you forget about the red-oval tile and try the one with the orange rectangles? Tick tock tick tock. Where's the solution?
A game that will stretch your ability to find subtle patterns, Triad will have you biting your fingernails in game after game.
Never heard of Mark Steere's Quadrature? That's all right, most people haven't. Mark seems to have disappeared from the net, but he's left an interesting legacy. [Mark, if you find this, write us!]
Cornered is Random Software's version of Quadrature, playable on desktop Windows as well as color palm-size PCs.
Infiltrate your opponent's camp and capture the three colored squares on the field behind him. But be careful: your opponent can take over your pieces just by boxing them in, and suddenly his army is larger than yours.
Oh, did I mention that your pieces can't retreat?
Placed firmly in the boundary between strategy and reflex games, KnXion may very well be the next Tetris. Addictive game play, superb graphics and escalating difficulty make this game a new favorite.
CommCenter lets you play your favorite video games while using your microphone to talk with other people online--CommCenter uses Microsoft DirectSound to mix their speech with your video games' sound effects, so you hear both at the same time.
You can use CommCenter to talk with any number of people at once, while still only sending and receiving a single stream of audio information--so it doesn't eat up all of your modem's bandwidth. CommCenter even lets you add real-time modifiers to your voice: it can lower or raise your speech an octave, add an echo chamber and more.
You can even modify your web site to let people know if you're online and ready for a call--and visitors can start talking with you by just clicking a hyperlink. Download CommCenter today and see why it frags the crud out of the competition.
BreakThrough is an addictive game in the breakout/arcanoid style. While not flashy, BreakThrough does offer hours of taut-nerved entertainment--and a built-in level editor.
Checkers International offers beautiful graphics and rich game play against a fast and deadly computer opponent. Play standard English Draughts, or any of eight other variations--including Alquerque (the oldest known form of checkers) and Polish Draughts (played on a 10x10 board)!
In the game Cubed, things happen fast. Maybe too fast.
You've got a few seconds--well, okay, actually less than second--to study the board before those massive cubes start rolling towards you. And you don't have enough mines (or enough time) to blow up all the cubes one-by-one, so you'll have to figure out the right order in which to destroy them.
But think fast, because while you're thinking the cubes keep rushing towards you. And they're a lo...
