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Oh dear, it seems that PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has gone and protested Cooking Mama, perhaps one of the least controversial games in the world. The organization has launched a flash game titled Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, in which players go through a series of bloody mini games that involve killing and cooking a Thanksgiving turkey.

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If you’re a LocoRoco fan, you don’t have to head to the PlayStation Store to sample a demo of LocoRoco 2‘s gameplay. Instead, you can visit Spil Games’ Games.co.uk site to play a Flash LocoRoco 2 minigame. It isn’t up for very long though. When LocoRoco 2 for the PSP comes out on November 21, 2008 in Europe, the Flash minigame will be removed from Spil Games’ site.

Its fairly simple to play. You use the left and right arrow keys on your computer to control the actions, like the shoulder buttons you use for the original LocoRoco and LocoRoco 2 games. There are six different levels to play, and the goal in each level is to make flowers bloom by rolling over a wilted flower with the proper color LocoRoco…

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Thanksgiving is coming, but it never seems to receive the same build-up as Halloween, Christmas or even Black Friday. It turns out though, that UK based graphic designer Southbank wants to try and get people a little excited for the eating extravaganza with a quick, free-to-play Flash game called Turkey Shoot. The name is fairly telling - you try to shoot turkeys. Its technically labeled by Southbank as a “Christmas” game, but with turkeys being the Thanksgiving “mascot,“ it can go either way.

Its charming though, despite its simplicity. Once you decide to start a game, you are taken to the Sherry Meter. Here, you can set your “difficult” by dictating how many sherrys you have had (the gauge starts at 1 and can go to 10). After that you arrive at a quaint village scene, with strange cartoon turkeys flying at you. You have to shoot as many as you can before three turkeys reach you. The goal is to get the highest score possible…

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Just got word from Kate Pietrelli of TriplePoint that the company is going to announce the public Open Beta launch of their new MMO zOMG! today (November 6, 2008.)

“I just wanted to give you a heads up that Gaia Online is announcing the public Open Beta launch of their MMO game in development, zOMG! ... when the game launches into Open Beta for public access, millions of Gaia community members as well as new members to the community can join in and play this free, browser-based MMO game,“ Pietrelli wrote.

This is great news and…

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Code Collective has just released the first beta of the massive multiplayer online strategic card game, The Far Wilds. Both a 3D, downloadable PC version, and a PC and Mac flash version of The Far Wilds can now be accessed from the official website. Code Collective will also be hosting a The Far Wilds Grand Clash competition in late November, 2008, where players can take part in tournaments (using either the PC or Flash versions) to possibly win a $1000 cash prize or in-game gold…

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Want to be the next great flash game designer? Maybe you’re a budding game designer/artist, but you don’t have the fortune to drop on a design degree? Well, Kongregate Labs has your number. The site is featuring a series of eight tutorial videos (the first three are up now, with the last five to follow in later October and early November), covering the basics of flash and the basic design of a simple shooter. There’s even a little contest for new flash designers - the best new game (from a first-timer) will net the winner $250, while second and third will get $150 each.

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The 2008 presidential election is less than a month away and has successfully infiltrated the videogame world. We’ve seen billboards for Sen. Barack Obama inside Burnout Paradise as well as polls taken over Xbox Live. You can now make your own politically themed games thanks to Fryebug Inc. through the Campaign08Games website.

This site lets you pick the a type of game you want to create such as…

Click through and give our own Oil Whacker game a try!

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The only thing better than watching Quantum of Solace is playing Quantum of Solace and winning a PS3 at the same time.

Entering the contest is a bit easier than training to become a secret agent. All you have to do is register at the Quantum of Solace website to obtain some Activision credentials. Then you’ll be free to access the online strategy game based on Quantom of Solace by entering your information and game code here. Activision will be giving away one PS3 each week beginning…

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WEBMMO’s free-to-play, browser based, online game Lords of Evil has just entered the open beta phase. This Flash based game allows players to interact with others and build up a massive empire. The only downside is that closed beta players’ empires’ data and statistics have been reset, so veterans are on the same level as newcomers. Veteran players do get to keep items earned during the closed beta, so I suppose it isn’t a total wash for them.

I was a bit disappointed with Lords of Evil. I was hoping for more of a standard, mmorpg. Instead, its a city/castle management simulation. You build an empire, try to accomplish tasks, become stronger than others and then take over. I was also disappointed in the character selection. I assumed once you picked a class (human/orc/demon), you’d be able to further customize your character. Instead, you retain the same static image…

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I know it’s been awhile since I played Bumper Stars by Large Animal Games on Facebook (especially after getting my butt handed to me by my fellow game journo, Jenni Lada) but I recently went back to give the game a try. It’s a totally refreshed game from when we previously played.

I contacted Wade Tinney, co-founder of Large Animal Games, to find out more about the changes.

“Hi Lucy, Thanks for reaching out! Here is a rundown of the changes to the game: On the game play side, we completely re-programmed the game and put in a more robust physics engine,“ Tinney wrote. “There were some rare situations in the original version where a Bumper Star could get caught forever between a wall and some bumpers. That should never happen now. You can now…“

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