Online games has been a popular niche today. Games allow us to step out of our hectic life, and be relax for a while. With the many game sites out there, finding one can be difficult sometimes. How about playing games combined with social networking? Playing games PLUS making new friends as well? And if you’re a game developer, how can you make money if your games are used by the site? Look no further, as WorldTechLogic presents Kongregate.

Kongregate is a web2.0 ajax and flash based online hub for players and game developers to meet up, play games, and operate together as a community. Anyone can add their own games to Kongregate’s library. Clicking the “manage my games” link in your profile page will bring you to a separate page in which you can edit information for games you’ve uploaded. While you won’t be able to change the title of your game (that title is, after all, part of the game’s URL) or delete your game entirely, you can update anything else, including the description, instructions, tags, etc. Kongregate also gives you points when you: upload games, have your games featured, rate games, invite friends, submit valuable feedback, find bugs, etc. Your level will automatically rise as you earn points, showing others the contribution you’ve made toward making Kongregate a better place to hang out and play games. Points are used to redeem prizes like T-Shirt, admin priviledges, and such, but the details are still being worked out (Thanks to EmilyG - Kongregate’s admin - for the explanations).

For the game developers, Kongregate shares between 25% and 50% of ad revenue generated within a game and game page (advertising elsewhere is not included - such as on a profile page). To qualify for an additional 15% of your game’s ad revenue, the game cannot be hosted on any website beyond Kongregate, with the exception of your own personal site. Nevertheless, you still hold the complete rights to your game, so you can put your game elsewhere should you want it to (no 15% exclusivity bonus anymore). However, you must modify your account settings and deactivate the bonus before you upload your game elsewhere.

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Bored at work (or at home, for that matter) and looking for something to do? Online games has been reaching a newer level right now. With the availability of Ajax, online games have been a lot more fun (and faster) than they used to be. At WorldTechLogic, we’ve been posting Ajax based games before. Click HERE for our previous post. Here are some of the best Ajax-based Online Games on the net today:

MORFIK CHESS

MorfikChess is an AJAX chess application. The game features single-player and multi-player options, with a chat utility so that you can attempt to psyche out/distract your opponent. The single-player option has four levels of difficulty and at the top level searches a minimum of 5-ply ahead and continues indefinitely for particularly critical (non-quiescent) configurations. The game also features an option to print out a PDF of the game summary.

SolitaireCraving

SolitaireCraving is the perfect online version of the card game solitaire. Unlike its PC counterpart, this AJAX driven online version allows users to rate each game. So if you are a dedicated player of solitaire then you will be able to pick a game based on its difficulty level, as judged by other players.

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Ryan Dewsbury has written a multiplayer AJAX poker application written with GWT called GPokr. GPokr plays No Limit Texas Holdem poker with unlimited refills of $1,500, and each players will try to have the biggest chip stack at the end of the month. The top players will then receive some sort of trophy on their profiles at the end of the month (yet to be determined, this is the first month), and everyone starts the new month with $1500 chips.
GPokr is pretty neat for a Beta. The front end is written with Java which the google web toolkit compiles to javascript. This is an impressive task that GWT does and so far, even though the toolkit is beta, seems seamless. The front end talks to a java servlet on the backend through an RPC layer on top of XMLHttpRequest. The server sends events back to the clients through the same RPC mechanism so that the players at the table always have an updated rendering.

So, watch out for GPokr, Party Poker!

Online games refer to video games that are played over some form of computer network, most commonly the Internet. They can range from simple text based games to games incorporating complex graphics and virtual worlds populated by many players simultaneously. Many online games have associated online communities, making online games a form of social activity beyond single player games.

In this article you will find some links to some ajax games. All these games are implemented using Ajax technology. Please note that these games may not work correctly on IE, but it will be better on Firefox browser.

Triglav: A Cool RPG

Heroes of Might and Magic V: The Official Mini Game

64Pola: A Cool Chess Game

Bunny Hunt: Let’s Hunt Some Bunnies

Here are some other Ajax games:

• Boggle, a word gamellor, a board game
• Babble, another word game
• GMRisk, a Risk-like game using google maps
• DEF-LOGIC wrote a lot a simple funny games
• Get Hostile! is game similar to the class boardgame Acquire
• TheBroth, The Global Mosaic: A nice colored massively multiplayer tile game
• IronSudoku, a sudoku!

Grand Strategy is a free, web-based game inspired by the board game Risk. It is a multiplayer game of strategy where the object is simple: element your opponents and achieve global domination! Grand Strategy is in a beta development phase, as such be prepared to find areas of the game that simply are not working yet. If you find a bug or have a suggestion, please forward it to their developer.

Players are encouraged to develop new maps. Map images and XML data may be downloaded from within the GrandStrategy game . Grand Strategy is best played with FireFox.

Fantasy sports leagues are big business, and all the big portals have their own products (see examples at ESPN, FoxSports, AOL, and Yahoo). The sites are increasingly dropping user fees as competition heats up. However, complaints continue to surface that the sites cannot handle the increasing and massive traffic and computational load generated from users.

New Jersey based FleaFlicker is a new online fantasy football alternative. It’s free (ad supported) and has an more feature set than the other similar sites. See the tour HERE. If you are looking for the best fantasy football site out there as the new season starts, check FleaFlicker out. There are a number of public leagues that individuals can join, or you can start your own league.

Habbo is a FREE virtual community for anyone aged 13 years or older where you can hang out with your friends, make new ones, create and design your own personal room, and take part in many activities and contests or even make your own!
Click here to find out more about Habbo!

To play Habbo, follow these easy steps:

1. Get Shockwave (It’s FREE)
2. Enter Habbo Hotel
3. Create your Habbo & play!

If you want to find out more, read our Welcome Guide or the Parents Guide for more info.

Miniclip is the world’s largest website dedicated to playing online games. Miniclip produces great online games that can be played anywhere, anytime. Miniclip’s community of 27 million game players are offered the full range of single player to hard-core massive multiplayers games. Miniclip games are extremely popular because they are fun, free, easy to use and involve the Internet’s largest community of online game players.

Miniclip designs and delivers massive buzz advergame campaigns through the Miniclip Interactive Advertising Agency and Miniclip Game Studios. Advertisers such as Coca Cola, Gillette, and Starburst are running advergames with Miniclip and are taking advantage of the incredible opportunities for game players to interact directly with their brands. Miniclip users have responded by racking up 54 million game plays for Gillette’s ‘Jet Ski’ game making it the most successful advergame ever released on the Internet.

Play as the new Superman in the newly acclaimed Superman Returns Movie HERE! You can also play soccer, and other cool online games. This is a great online games website to check out!