99 Bricks Teaches Abject Lesson In Physics

Just when you thought you'd seen every possible iteration of Tetris comes this funky bouncy Flash-based online game. This one (of course) has a little twist, instead of trying to make lines of tetriminos you've got to make the tallest tower possible out of 99 bricks (hence the title).

Sounds easy? Fat chance! These things are squishy cushion-like bricks that obey the laws of physics like gravity. Just when you think you've lined up the perfect drop with an L-shaped tetrimino it'll tumble off the edge taking a whole bunch of bricks with it.

Loads of fun and a nice clean interace to boot!

Check it out here.

Get That Last Guy

Man, I love the way the Japanese come up with whacky and wonderful new ways to play games. Take this online version of the upcoming PS3 game The Last Guy. The idea is to save everyone on screen by running around and letting them join your group. When you have enough followers take them to the Escape Zone but don't go too close to the bad guys or the little people will scatter or worse, you'll die.

What makes this fun is that you can choose pretty much any website to use as the play field. The whitespace acts as areas you can travel through with images and dark areas blocking your way. To get a feel for the game I recommend running around on Google or even my blog here.

There's a table of the most played sites on the front page of the Japanese site. Some of them are pretty hard.