Milwaukee Beer presents Lust For Bust. This not so clever attempt to advertise Milwaukee’s Beer through online flash game has gone a long way. There are three characters in the game: you, your buddy, and your buddy’s hot sister. The goal of the game is to stare at the girl’s chest long enough to get the ogle-meter filled up. This game is safe for work but you may want to make sure your girl friend doesn’t catch you playing it!

When you stare too long, the girl notices and you are “Busted!” A giant can of Milwaukee Beer falls on your head and you have to start the game all over. You have one minute to get the ogle-meter filled up before time runs out.

There are different levels of staring, approximately six. If you stare as close as possible, the meter gets filled the fastest but you will also get caught the fastest. The farthest away, doesn’t fill the meter and does not get you caught. The remaining are between the two extremes.

Milwaukee Beer did a great job with this game and probably got more advertising out of it than it expected. Milwaukee’s also made other online game namely “Can You Crash It?” and “How’s Your Poker Face?” but it has never been as successful. You can play these games and their website.

I would rate the game a 7/10. The game is very simple and addictive. It is just the right difficulty to not be impossible but make you want to keep playing until you beat it. There is no second level nor are there difficulties but with a game like this, you shouldn’t expect it.

By: Michael Melen

So what does it take to find a safe haven for a gamer like me? A place where I can go to play games without an immense amount of competition, no need to invest any money – and hopefully no risk of addiction? Honestly, I don’t know if there is such a place. It seems that most of the gaming websites out now are getting more competitive and are requiring more from its visitors than ever. Nowadays you have to register for most of them – and what’s next, a social security number?

I understand the need to keep records of who comes and goes for their own sake, but what about us? What about the old school gamers who just want to play a quick game without signing on the dotted line and making a commitment? And after years of being sucked into website after website and losing money due to temptation, I want to just go somewhere, get settled and play some non-committing games like I used to with my Atari (am I dating myself by saying that?).

Feeling defeated by the new “retro” gaming world, I tried a few sites that have some very exciting games to see if I could fit into the new mold. For example, I gave a few weeks to Boxerjam.com. It’s a great site with plenty of games (especially my favorite: 8-ball pool). But as you can imagine, shooting pool online is very different than shooting it in real life; there’s a lot you have to get used to, like holding a stick with a mouse and hitting the cue ball accurately when you’re viewing the table from above. Since it took time to get used to it, I found myself losing regularly and placing low among my peers. This hurt my self esteem and prompted me to cancel my membership, only to go back to the smoky lounges in my neighborhood for pool entertainment.

Next, I learned about a site called King.com, which also has a boatload of great games, including one of my favorites, Deal or No Deal. The game is so fun and addicting that I found myself entering new tournaments every few hours – not good if you have a family, a job, or any life at all offline. Instead of getting my work done, I was literally finding new tournaments to enter that resulted in virtual prizes – not a trophy being sent to my house, not money – just a virtual prize. After realizing what I was doing I had to put a block up to stop myself from going to the site until I thought I’d kicked my addiction.

So what’s the moral of the story?

It seems that if you are a 70s baby and grew up playing more simplistic games, all of the newer options can actually be a bit overwhelming. There’s so much competition, so many prizes to obtain, and so many forms to fill out that you get lost in the gaming world and forget about how fun playing games used to be – incentive-less. I hope to one day find a gaming paradise just for a person like me. But until that day, I guess I’ll have to pull out my Nintendo and play Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt with pride.

By: Jeffrey Meier

Online brain training games or computer games in general have a tendency to make you lazy and make your brain function impaired, etc. Yes, this could be true to some extent, as evidenced by the decline in physical and mental capabilities of our future generation. But contradictory to this fact, the latest buzz news is to improve your mental power there are free brain games available online!

Especially there are some memory games which have been specifically designed to improve your brain power and will surely make you to use all the four areas of the brain whereas a normal person uses hardly less 25% of it.

We may have grown in strides in terms of technological advancement and computers but still we are mostly dependent on calculator even for doing small calculations and this no one can deny for sure. Hence with these free brain games, you not only improve your brain function but concurrently you improve your cognition, attention, and memory as well as processing speed. There have been proven improvement in even eliminating depression in people.

There are games like Birdwatching which improves your attention, Speed Match and Word Bubbles which actually improves your processing speed. Games like Monster Garden and Lost in Migration improves memory and cognitive control.

With these online brain training games you are actually giving exercise to your brain and thus you are improving the power of the brain and reflex action which has gone missing due to our lethargic lifestyle. It is extremely important that we play these sort of brain games regularly to keep our brain as well as our mind healthy, which is important as in order to keep our brain fresh we need to give our brain such workouts.

By: Craig Robin