Winter Pinball is a pinball game written in flash. The goal of the game is the same as any pinball game, get as many points as you possibly can by keeping the ball going. The ball will go through different contraptions and each time come rolling back down. The player needs to hit the ball back up into the objects to keep the ball going.

Of course it is not that easy to keep the ball going and there are a few different places for the ball to roll down into oblivion. Players get three balls to try and accumulate as many points as possible. Players operate the paddles by using the arrow keys. The left arrow key moves the left paddle and the right arrow key moves the right paddle.

Winter Pinball has a winter theme to it, as you may have guessed. The game play is just like any pinball game be it real or virtual. The game is a great way to pass the time and definitely enjoyable for the pinball fanatic. If you are looking for a way to pass the time and enjoy the challenge of pinball, check out Winter Pinball.

Winter Pinball is just one of many games hosted at matica.com. If you are into flash games, check out the site. There are games of all types and you should be able to find one that you enjoy playing.

NinjaBee has announced the up coming release of The Amazing Brain Train! for the Nintendo Wii. The game is a WiiWare game and can be downloaded through the Nintendo Online store. Players get smarter as they play through the game and take a tour of Professor Fizzwizzle’s cartoon world.

The player plays through fifteen different types of mini games in three different game play modes, quest, test and practice. This brain game claims to be different from other brain games. The Amazing Brain Train allows players to pick games from five different categories, search, planning, spacial, memory or numbers.

“This is no ordinary brain game. The Amazing Brain Train! contains features never before seen in the genre. Its a departure from the minimalist brain games we’ve seen in the past. You can forget about goal-less gameplay: The Amazing Brain Train! is packed with quests, trophies and high scores that add an aspect of gameplay that other brain games just dont have.” –Ryan Clark, co-founder of Grubby Games

If your looking for a good way to expand your brain, check out The Amazing Brain Train when it is available on WiiWare.

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Merscom has announced the upcoming release of Drinking Buddies, a social drinking game released for Facebook. The game encourages friends to socialize with each other by sharing customized drinks.

Friends can send each other customized drinks and personalized messages. The game is not all about drinking, though. Players have to balance alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic drinks. The game strives for interaction between friends and gives users a way to meet knew friends on Facebook. The game features VIP drinks, holiday drinks and players can attain premium currency for enhanced game play.

Producer Dimitri Kirin explains that Drinking Buddies will give players a chance to unwind and have a good time with friends, “The experience I’m trying to portray with in-game artwork is that moment of both relaxation and excitement – the moment of that first, delicious drink that will lead to a relaxed conversation, a good joke, some juicy gossip, and time spent together that will help these drinking buddies get through the rest of their week.”

If your looking for a way to socialize with your friends, virtually, check out Drinking Buddies on Facebook.

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Milkman Games has announced the release of Aqualux, an action puzzle game for the PC. Players are challenged to get the goo from one place to another by twisting, swapping and even teleporting the goo through colorful tubes.

Aqualux takes the concept of the slide puzzles and mixes it with building a network of pipes before time runs out. The slide puzzles are those games that contain a bunch of different squares that need to be slid around the board and arranged in a certain order. Some times the squares have numbers on them, which makes putting them in order easier and other times they are not numbered you have to figure out the picture and where the square goes. There are 100 different levels to complete with unlockable trophies and secret game modes.

“Portals, frozen pipes, twist-able pipes, and enchanted pipes ( that are rotated by flowing through special gates ) are added to the mix later on, adding new excitement and challenge to the game as players progress through the puzzles.” An online level builder allows creative users to construct their own levels, which are then available to everyone through the game’s Levels of the Day feature. “People who love tinkering with gadgets are having a great time building their own levels; and players keep coming back every day to fresh content, even after they’ve finished the campaign. We’re planning to integrate even deeper user-generated content features into social networks early next year,” says Liebert.

If you are into puzzle games with a bit of a twist, check out Aqualux.

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ProProfs has announced the release of their brain games web site. The web site, www.proprofs.com, contains 4,000 different games that you can play and challenge your brain all at the same time. Some people like to pass the time not challenging their brain and other people like to pass the time doing puzzles and other such brain stimulating activities. Now those people have a web site designed just for them.

Users of the web site have the option of creating their own games and those games can be placed on their own sites as well. The games can be used to teach concepts or engage visitors to the site hosting the game. The more engaged the visitors are the more likely they are to come back to your site.

“Games and puzzles are a great way to encourage engagement. Our customizable games can be embedded into any webpage, allowing bloggers to embed game related content to their blog post, or providing a teacher with online tools to encourage students to master different subject areas,” said Sameer Bhatia, Founder and President of ProProfs.com. “With thousands of games to choose from, ProProfs Brain Games has something fun for everyone, including bloggers, teachers and students, parents searching for a way to spend time with their kids, or even just casual gamers looking to flex their mental muscles.”

The ProProfs site contains a few different types of learning games from puzzles like Sudoku or logic games to word searches and even dress up games. The games are all done in Flash, which allows anyone with a web browser to be able to play the games. Next time you are looking to pass the time or are bored, check out ProProfs and stimulate your brain.

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