It has come to my attention that people want to play free online games! What a surprise! These days everything on the web is free or at least has the impression of being free.
At games.com our goal offer the very best games on the web. We have over 200 free online games and occasionally people have a hard time finding them all. In our continuing search for the best of the web we offer games the require a download and offer HOUR of free play. It is not perfect but in order to have the best games, we have to have downloadable games and online games.
I was poking around the web trying to find better ways to get people to see all of our online games. We have so many good ones that it is frustrating to know that some of you can't find the games.
Here is one way that you can keep online games from and center. The link below will make Games.com Free Online games your home page!
Unfortunately, this only works for Internet Explorer. If you want to book mark a page in Firefox, all you have to do is click Control and D (CTRL + D)
You're welcome folks! We just want you to get to the games as fast as you can. For more information on customizing your AOL you can check out my post: How to Get to Games Faster If you have any questions on this post or on anything going on at games.com please let me know.
The usual suspects appear on the list. I have to think if this least is interesting enough for most folks? Please let me know if their is any list you would like to see? Would a list of the best games with dogs in it be interesting? How about cats? Let me know and I'll scrounge through the archives to bring you the best of!
Sally's Spa in the top spot bumping Burger Shop! Good work. I was watching Lifetime (for research of course!) and saw a Sally's Spa ad for the game! I was pretty happy about that! Casual gaming is coming a long way when their are television ads for the games. Also, look at all the 'XXXX Dash'? Playfirst is really on to something with those games. Folks just love em! Here are the top games sold this week.
For the past several years Games.com has sent winners of our online tournaments to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It is always a highlight of our year and we extremely proud of our players.
Last year a Troy O'Brien, a fireman from New Jersey, got to live his dream and won over $50,000 with his free seat to the World Series of Poker. I thought that was a pretty big deal and we so happy to highlight Troy O'Brien's fine poker play.
This year, our team was a bit smaller. Six of our online tournament winners were going to go to the World Series of Poker. I thought it would mean the end for our big blow out coverage. I thought our coverage would consist of our free online tournaments; we'd send our team of six and that would be it. For instance last year we created video interviews of every player and this year we just ran pictures of the team. You can forgive me if I underestimated our team? Boy was I wrong.
A Poker Phenom in Our Midst
This year with our of small team of six players not only did we have a big winner. We had HALF the team make it past day one! That is a feat in and of itself. Of the nearly 7,000 entries to the main event more than half of those players are sent home within the first day. Team Games.com beat the odds! After day one, Dawn Baleno of New York, Bill Seberof Texas and Alfredo Fernandezcarried the Games.com banner forward.
After day one it started to get tough for the team. Dawn was the first to go as she got beat while holding a pair of Kings. You can't win them all and sometimes an opponent catches break. After Dawn returned home she was able to share her experience with us. You can read about it here: Dawn Baleno's 2008 World Series of Poker
Next up was our tough Texan Bill Seber. A grand dad and a veteran he stuck around and was about to do some damage of his own. In any other year Bill would be our big winner. Bill played wonderfully and finished a respectable 233rd. We're really proud of Bill's work and he kept us in the loop as he was moving though the event. Bill is home counting his sweet $35,383!
Free online arcade classic comes to Games.com - Aliens Go Boom!
Play our arcade classic in the safety of your own home. Be free of the bullying that went on at the arcade and save your quarters. The games.com team has worked hard to recreate the classic arcade feeling without you having to part with your hard earned shiny quarters! In what we hope to be the first of many games we bring out in the arcade style - Games.com presents- Aliens Go Boom! The game follows the travels of our space hero, T.J. Zirlax, through 35 levels of asteroid clearance and alien battles. It's a great game and we'd love to hear you thoughts about it!
Not much change here and I don't think we will see a lot of change. We have a lot of games in the pipeline that are going to make this list but I am not about to give out company secrets!
Tradewinds Caravans - (downloadable, arcade) http://www.games.com/game/tradewinds-caravans/ Adventure awaits you in Tradewinds Caravans, the latest installment in the acclaimed Tradewinds Series.
Bit of a delay this week due to the holiday but if we're going to celebrate the the USA, then people are going to have to wait for the most played listing. The usual suspects appear on our list. Poker games leading the way with Gin Rummy cracking inot the top ten. It's great to see our exclusive games be the most popular! People recognize our hard work with their time spent! Thanks everyone!
Burger Shop holding steady at number one. I actually went though some of our site reports and found that Burger Shop has one our triple crown! It's the most played*, most downloaded and most purchased! I'll say it again, it's an awesome game!
Starscape - (downloadable, arcade) http://www.games.com/game/starscape/ Fight your way through an alien dimension. Rescue your missing crewmates and defeat the alien queen.
Free Games Here! Free Games There- Free Games are Everywhere!
There are free online games everywhere on the web these days. There are new games sites and new games cropping up all the time. You can play games on myspace, on facebook or anywhere. If you want you can bring games with you on your mobile phone.
Why don't you just TAKE EVERYTHING!
With all those games its easy for some of the great games slip through the cracks. At games.com we try to have the best free online games but sometimes that just doesn't happen. There are too many reasons to list why we don't have everything but let me tell you it is not for the lack of me trying! If it were up to me, we'd have every game on the web on our site! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on where you stand on such matters) I do not control which games we take or don't take. Without getting into a huge debate; here are the three greatest games not currently on games.com
Like the name says Bloons is game involving balloons. You are in control of a little monkey with a set of darts and your job is to pop the balloons on the screen. This simply little puzzle game is wonderful and playable for hours. The game lives on because they've allowed people to create their own little bloon boards. Check out and tell me what you think. If your voice is loud enough I am sure I can get Bloons on games.com
If you have some competitive blood in you and like to try tricks this game is for you. You take the role of a little dolphin and you are tasked with scoring as many points as you can with little tricks. It's a wonderful game that you can spend hours trying get to the high scores or even better trying to propel you little dolphin to the starts. If you don't enjoy this game there actually might be something wrong with you!
Desktop Tower Defense is a game that is sweeping the web and destroying productivity by the work day. The basic premise is that you have to protect you desk from creepy critters. The simply game play mechanics are wonderful and allow you to be creative in how you play. Check it out and lose, I don't know, a week of your life.
Have you play these games? What are your favorites that aren't on games.com? I'd love to know!
I was finally able to sort out all of online data and get the collective data for all our games. I think the long lists of 25 games aren't helping anyone and I feel like if I focus on each game and their description that would be more helpful.
WSOP Poker includes all seven of our poker suite of games. All these games can be found at our Poker Hub. Tons of people play this game on a daily basis and at games.com we firmly stand behind this game as the best free online poker game available. There are no gimmicks or tricks involved. The game is there for everyone to enjoy and is played on the level. By far our most popular game is WSOP Poker Texas Hold Em (no limit) It's such a great game and we use it to send our members to the actual WSOP in Las Vegas for the last three years! If you haven't played it you should.
Solitaire Classic Challenge is a derivative of the classic Solitaire game Klondike. In Challenge we ask our players to score their best five hands. This month we pushed the game fairly hard to see if our players would take to it. Thankfully, the game did well and people are playing it more than ever. I feel like this game really goes to point if you want people to do something ask them to do it! So play this game!
The backbone of our games suite is the Slot Lounge. Good lucking game that people enjoy and a great community has formed around the game. If you go into any room on any night of the week you'll find people chatting and spinning the reels.
Video Poker is now a couple of months old and there are a great number of people who are cranking away at it. It's a great game and hope that it soon will be linked within the Slots Lounge so that people can move between the two types of games.
While a continuation of the series Collapse! This iteration of the game is by far it's best. What makes it so great and so classic is that it is easy and graphics are crisp, clear and vibrant. If you haven't played Super Collapse you should try it today. It's not on the top monthly top played month after month for nothing!
Our WSOP Poker games are the best on the web. Now, they aren't advertised on televsion or have some celebrity poker player hawking them but they are just as outstanding as anything out there. Our game is free, fun, fast and did I mention free to play? We're not trying to up-sell to people, we're not trying to get you to buy anything we're all about you playing. Are there ads in there? Sure, but only once every 15 minutes and we never interrupt a hand. Anyway, here are the rest of the top 25 played online games by members logged in.
Our top game has returned to it's lofty perch after a several week hiatus. Burger Shop, a click-management game, where you run an out of control burger shop continues to sell well and do well. It's just a wonderful game. I cannot sing it's praises enough. Anyway, without further ado, the top 25
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It has come to my attention that people want to play free online games! What a surprise! These days everything on the web is free or at least has the impression of being free.
For the past several years 
Bloons
Dolphin Olympics 2
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