The following games are available from Game Du Jour this week. The games are all offered a significant price cut, which is represented by the percentage after the game name.

Monday February 23 Cy-Clone 60%

In an intergalactic dimension, aliens are on the offense moving in to annihilate mankind. The human race faces a threat beyond any they’ve ever known. One hope remains. You alone must clone their superior technology and use it against them. Can you navigate new biospheres in a morphing 3D universe? Avoid the glowing-eyed skull, and prevail in Cy-Clone, a thrilling sci-fi shooter game.

Tuesday February 24 Cannon Blast! 50%

Set sail for an action-puzzle adventure that’s full of cannon-blasting fun. Grab and shoot all the explosive cannonballs in your path before Sharksword and his pirates sink your ship. Collect all the dazzling treasures of the oceans, and meet a zany cast of characters on this colorful swashbuckler’s quest. Featuring crazy power-ups, amazing 3D environments, and 100 levels of puzzling challenges, Cannon Blast! is an explosive adventure for the entire family.

Wednesday February 25  MinuteMatch 50%

In MinuteMatch you will compete to score as fast as possible by catching the good items and avoiding bad ones. But remember to keep one step ahead of the competition. Shellfish, sheep, tadpole, bird, spider, whoever you are, be the first!

Thursday February 26 Fab Fashion 50%

A fabulous frenzy of fashion fun! The big show is approaching and up-and-coming fashion designer Kate Masters has only a few minutes to measure, cut, and sew her unique looks before the models hit the runway. Help Kate work her way from small-town seamstress to superstar by keeping her designs fresh, her models smiling, and her audience applauding. Featuring 48 challenging levels in eight exciting cities, hundreds of unique garments to create, and a scrapbook full of your accomplishments, Fab Fashion is sure to bring out the fashionista in everyone!

Friday February 27 Spuds 50%

An offbeat game that is part strategy and part puzzle-solving. You will build a stable of Spuds (Synthetic Pattern-matching Universal Defenders) that will fight for you, die for you, race for you, and solve puzzles for you in an effort to overcome an alien invasion. You define your spuds’ behaviors using built-in easy-to-use visual tools, and then can lead them through a single-player campaign or command them in a variety of online multiplayer scenarios.

Saturday February 28 Arctic Rush 40%

The Arctic is one of the most inaccessible and mysterious places on Earth. And where there are mysteries the tireless Dr. Scott appears. During the night Dr. Scott’s Arctic expedition is thrown into extreme danger. The ice shelf, where Dr. Scott lay sleeping in his tent, breaks away from the continent and drifts out into the high seas

Sunday February 29 Spider Wizard 50%

An exciting solitaire game based on the classic game Spider, a challenging 2 deck game that requires skill and a little bit of luck. If you have played the Spider game that comes with Windows ME/XP, then you know how fun and challenging Spider can be. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a little more? Spider Wizard contains not only Spider, but 15 other similar games. Variations include Spider One Suit and Spider Two Suits, which have card moving rules that make the game easier to win.

If you see a game you like, head over to Game du Jour on the right day and pick up the game dirt cheap.

Silverlight Tower Defense, as the name implies, is a tower defense game written in Silverlight. This tower defense game is a bit different from other tower defense games. The goal is to defend your area from the onslaught of 100 different waves of enemies. The difference is the path is a simple fastest straight line path from the beginning to the exit.

The exit and entrance is marked by gaps in the borders of the game board. The “monsters” come in and head straight for the exit, but they are extremely strong. I played multiple times and I have yet to be able to kill the first wave of monsters. Usually, the first few waves are the “give me” waves that allow players to test out their strategies. Not with Silverlight Tower Defense. Strangely, the enemies do get a little easier as the waves continue and I was able to kill some and gain money to add new towers and upgrade my current towers.

I was slightly annoyed by not being able to see where I can place my towers and where I can’t. Other tower defense games I have played show some way, like a green box or red box, that let you know where you can place your towers and where you can’t. Silverlight Tower Defense does not include a feature like this. The player knows they can’t put a tower down when they click and nothing happens.

Silverlight Tower Defense is a challenging tower defense and definitely tests players strategies. The challenge is tough in the beginning and then gets less intense in a few following waves, but players only get twenty lives before the game ends. If you are looking for a good, challenging tower defense game, chcek out Silverlight Tower Defense.

Midnight Synergy has put together a list of the top ten free games of 2008, in their opinion of course. The best thing about the list is all the games on the list are free to play. The list contains a wide array of games and there is probably a game or two on there that you may not have heard of before.

The list is based on the popularity of the games as well as the reception of the game by the general public. They fully admit that a little bit of bias shows up in the list as well. The list has spot the difference games to physics based games. There is even a game in there for the action and arcade fan. The list seems to have a least one game from the popular game genres.

Head over to midnight synergy’s website and see the list for yourself.

BitCaper has announced the release of Block Knights for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The goal of the game is to create rows and columns of blocks to try to amass the most amount of points possible. Players want to be able to get their names up on the leader boards and show all their friends how great at block building they are.

Players can use the tilt function of the iPhone/iPod Touch to move the blocks to where they would like to place the blocks. Players can rotate pieces and lock them together by tapping the piece. Block Knights offers four different game modes that range from fast paced action to slower speed play. Any type of player will be able to find a mode for themselves.

If Block Knights sounds like a fun game, head over to the Apple App Store and do a search for Block Knights.

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Tropical Towers or Tiki Towers, as it is known in North America, took home the Best Casual Game award a thet 5th Annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA). The game is a game of building and destroying towers and contains monkeys. Can’t go wrong with a game that contains monkeys.

Tropical Towers has been number one on the Apple App Store in Germany and France and has been in the top ten in other countries. The game requires players to get the monkeys back to their homes by solving puzzles. The puzzles involving real-time construction physics. Players have to keep the monkeys save from hazardous obstacles spread throughout the levels as well.

Tropical Towers was developed by Mr. Goodliving, Real’s mobile games development studio and has been released on multiple mobile phone platforms.

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