Join the LEGO® Star Wars™ Rebel Alliance now to lead your first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. All iOS devices.

Attack of the 50ft Robot! is a 1950s B-Movie action game with an emphasis on destruction. You take on the role of the 50ft robot let loose in the city, with the only goal to destroy everything. However, along the way, you may run into a few obstacles, some of which have no problems destroying the city as well just to get at you.

SpaceChem is an intriguing, "problem-solving centric" puzzle game by Zachtronics Industries that combines the logic of computer programming with the scientific domain of chemistry, set in an original science fiction universe. Players build machines using mechanics similar to visual programming that assemble and transform chemical compounds. Players later connect those machines together to form complex pipelines, and ultimately construct special pipelines to fight back against space-monsters that threaten humanity. In addition to being challenging and mentally stimulating, it's been described as "one of the year's best indie games" by Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a leading PC gaming website. Freesite licence for schools until the end of January 2012.

Beautiful point 'n' click game

Glitch is a massively multi-player game built in the spirit of the web. It's one big connected world, and your smallest actions can have the most unimaginable consequences. It's fun and funny. It's fresh and fantastic. It's fast and ferocious. (But in a cute and occasionally cuddly sort of way.) From the people who brought you Flickr.

Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length visual novel about the erosion of privacy, gay drama, young sexuality, and the perils of modern online life for a high school literature class.

Welcome to Sweatshop! Play our latest for Channel 4 Education, a strategy game that places you in charge of a team of under-paid, under-nourished workers as they struggle to meet the demands of your deeply fashionable High Street clients.

One of the most popular online action games of all time, Team Fortress 2 delivers constant updates—new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats. Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities, and lend themselves to a variety of player skills. Looks good anyway!

Take a poignant walk through the life of an alien caught in the midst of humanity.

Vega Strike is an Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe.

New online games development game, that aims to introduce games design concept through a series of mini-games and an unfolding storyline about a young games developer (Addison).

Construct is a free, DirectX 9 game creator for Windows, designed for 2D games.

Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building.

A new online simulation/game called EnergyVille from the Economist Group which challenges you to select and deploy the energy resources needed to power a large modern city. Can you make sure the lights stay on, the powercontinues to flow and the planet stays green?

Rigs of Rods is an Open Source everything simulator. Anything that exists in real life can theoretically be simulated in Rigs of Rods.

Put yourself in the shoes of a social worker for a few moments and take our social work challenge. The child protection scenario is based on real life stories.

Cardboard Computer is an independent game studio. We're just getting started!

Web game which helps you to be better at life. It's about resilience: how to feel good when life chucks you lemons. How to be better at thinking positively. How to cope with, and learn to love, failure. By playing SuperMe you'll learn how to be more resilient in real life, and by playing every piece of content you'll score points. Points! Everyone wants those.

Finally, you can claim experience points for housework. Recruit a party of adventurers from your household or office, and whenever one of you completes a chore, you can log it and claim XP.

The Curfew is an adventure web-game created by Littleloud, published by Channel 4 and written by acclaimed comic book author, Kieron Gillen.

The leading UK charity conducting scientific research to enhance the British countryside for public benefit. They provide training and advice to farmers, gamekeepers and land managers on how best to improve the biodiversity of the countryside.

Make 2D games with Construct's visual, human-readable event system. No need to learn any programming or scripting languages at all. Fast, easy to learn, yet powerful for advanced users. Developed free by volunteers.

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.

NagaSkaki is a free, fully functional chess program for Windows

A distinctly unique online strategy game.

Battle game themed around the battle of Trafalgar, focused on 'cultural history' through the stories of the crews who represented 20 races and cultures

2D game program. Create platform-based games and other types of 2D games. No coding required. Add your own music, sound effects, videos and splash screens. Includes sample games to get you started.

More maths games

CantYouSeeImBusy.com - the only site where you can play games without your boss noticing.

In Home Sheep home, your goal is to get your three sheep, Shirley, Shaun, and Timmy, back to their barn.

Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online, on a new social network called White Smoke. Explore websites, search for clues, receive phone calls, chat on IM, and tackle puzzles and minigames. On Smokescreen, who can you trust?

TORCS is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform.

Educational game from the UK Parliament Education Service. No jokes for Daily Torygraphers & fools.

Battleswarm: Field of Honor is a breakthrough new Combat Strategy game that pits First-Person Shooters against Real-Time Strategy in epic online battles.

Free online adventure single player RPG game you can play by yourself. Text but looks interesting. If you're into irony / satire...

Beatboxing is a musical art that a lot of people appreciate but only a special few can do. Fortunately, there is a fun online beatbox machine called Incredibox

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

The world’s best game engine... Now at your fingertips. Experience the power and potential of Unreal Engine 3. Create amazing games, lifelike scenes and fantastic worlds... for free.

Don't usually like games. Like this one. Beautifully designed & worth 10 minutes of your time.

Oolite is a space sim game, inspired by Elite

A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods.

thechineseroom is the website of Dan Pinchbeck. He has been investigating the potential for alternate narratives in first-person perspective videogames.

Below are some of my favorite arcade games from the 1980's. Each classic game takes a few seconds to load, but they are amazingly close to the real thing. Best of all, no tokens required to play these video games!

Strimko™ is a recently developed puzzle moving a logic puzzling with numbers into quite a novel dimension. The rules of Strimko are simple, the play is deep and fun, and the logic is winding and as unique as each Strimko challenge.

Tower Defence for flightless birds

Below are the games that have been sponsored or licensed by King.com and that we would like to share. As long as you abide by our simple terms below you are welcome to download them and host them on your website for your users to play.

The GAME BIZ ADVICE zone of Sloperama.com. "My intent here is to help game biz aspirants learn what it takes to get in and move up in the game business". Advice from an industry veteran. But website has got frames! Bad boy!

Georgian history from Channel 4

There was once a world of living robots. But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator. The world fell into a deep sleep. Bring life back to the world!

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Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input.

On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.

TruPoets is an online community, devoted to reviving poetry’s place in the cultural world. One of their members created TruHangman, merging the well-known game with a wide base of poetic knowledge. True, this isn’t the most artful media on the internet, nor is it innovating gaming material, but it’s a nice way to test your poetic knowledge

Read carefully. Run and jump through the text of stories and poems, from the horror of Lovecraft's "The Nameless City" to the simple beauty of Bashou's frog haiku. Go for completion or race through the pieces you've mastered!

Must Pop Words is a boggling word game that boggles the mind

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.

DOS games which would appear to be in the public domain...

Free Visual Novel Construction Tool. Basically a game construction kit.

For your eyes only.. Spymaster is a new Twitter-based social game that is currently in private beta with a small group of élite players. Oh dear...

Make Your Own Video Game Free for Mac, Windows, and Linux

Interested to learn the stock market game? Our stock game allows you to play with $1,000,000 in a realistic trading simulation. Become a top investor on UpDown. Make real money if you beat the S&P 500 every month. Learn from the game to become a better investor in the real world. Sign-up for free now.

Mentally stimulating diversions

I'm feeling mellow already.

Challenge others. Challenge yourself.™ Calculation Nation™ uses the power of the Web to let students challenge opponents from anywhere in the world. At the same time, students are able to challenge themselves by investigating significant mathematical content and practicing fundamental skills. The element of competition adds an extra layer of excitement.

Lure of the Labyrinth is a product of the Learning Games to Go (LG2G) project. LG2G concentrates on creating essential resources for pre-algebra students and the teachers and families working with them, as well as aggregating other manipulatives, web sites, and teacher tools that can help students think like mathematicians.

Create picture puzzles from Flickr photos

ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system - the choice is yours.

JamLegend is an online rythm game, perfect for jamming away in a browser of your choice. You can try to top your own scores, ascend in level and unlock features, or face other players from all over the world. Music Gaming Unleashed

Curses, by Graham Nelson, is a cerebral and whimsical epic that begins with the search for a lost map and spreads out through Eliot, Proust, and most of 20th-century literature.

Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location.Try: Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Carolina UK, USA.

OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

Simutrans, a freeware and open-source transportation simulation game. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions by buiding a transport network you always dreamed of.

80s retro dumb drum sounds

The following teaching resource is a game designed to test student knowledge of the hospitality trade, teach students that everything they do in business relates to profitability, but mostly it is a bit of fun. It can be used by Further Education Lecturers at levels 1 to 5,

Help Greenpeace save the planet..online game

Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete.

The first ever online interactive sci-fi show? Kirill takes a linear series of ten three-minute episodes and layers them with blogs, images, video and audio files online, as well as “secret websites”. The aim? “To tell an intricate story of a man on a quest to make contact with a young woman who holds the key to the future of humanity.”

You have 10 minutes to remember as many of the 192 United Nations member states as you can. After 10 minutes, the correct answers will appear in this space so you can see which ones you've missed.

If you're past all that school stuff and want to see how much geography you remember, check out the World Map by Game Design. You are given a world map and the names of 20 countries. You have about 10 seconds to find each country on the map.