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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

Fans of the classic Ski Free title will enjoy this week’s Flash Game Friday. Solipskier is a fairly simple skiing game that has some impressively addicting and satisfying gameplay with some pretty rockin’ music. Unfortunately, there’s no killer Yetis.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

Nobody can deny that there have been countless remakes and modernizations of classic and iconic games, especially when it comes to the indie and browser-based gaming world. Today we bring you one of the very best results from remaking a classic with modern tech.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

It’s no secret that in-game achievements are used as a dirty, but shockingly effective method of making a game last longer, simply because you’re spending all that time working to get three headshots with one bullet while you’re falling through a tear in the time-space continuum as Doc Brown says “Great Scott!” to unlock that one last achievement. It seems this exploit on the human race’s desire to achieve can be taken a step further. Why not make an entire game about unlocking achievements? And, since that went over so well, why not make a second game? Crazy, right?

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

After shamefully missing last week’s Flash Game Friday, we return this week with our tail between our legs. We would beg for your forgiveness, but we simply don’t care have an article to write! This week we bring you a truly fantastic experiment in creating a completely dynamic point-and-click adventure game.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

Portal. It’s no secret that this game holds a special place in the hearts of Tech Olive. So it would come as no surprise that anything even loosely Portal-related would at least gain an audience from the Tech Olive staff. Some of these projects are even worth the time that we spend admiring them. So, not only is this week’s flash game related to Portal, but it’s also worth the few hours that you’ll sink into it. Whether those extra gray hairs are worth it, however, is entirely up to you.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

There are tons of way to waste time on the internet. It’s no secret. There are even more ways to fill yourself with blinding rage. Combine that and add an amazing soundtrack with brilliant Gameboy-style retro graphics and what do you have? Tower of Heaven.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

While most flash games find you setting up tower defenses, saving lost kittens, parking cars, and countless other combinations of mostly casual and brightly-colored gameplay, if you look hard enough, you might just find some flash games for the FPS gamers in the world. Cue Anaksha: Female Assassin.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

This Friday we venture into the realm of combat and tower defense with Penguins Attack 2. It’s a strategy game where you place different towers (bullet, bio, shock, flame, flak, and plasma) in a configuration that best gets rid of the attacking penguins.

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Flash Game Friday is a weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

This week we bring you Sushi Cat, a puzzle game from Armor Games in the vein of games like Peggle.  The story of Sushi Cat begins with him falling in love with a cat in a pet shop window. The game follows Sushi Cat as he pursues this mysterious cat of his dreams! As you progress through the levels you stuff Sushi Cat with, of course, sushi!

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Flash Game Friday is a new weekly feature that provides gamers with (uh…duh) a free, browser-based flash game. You may have played it before and you may have not, but it’s always worth checking out. We’ll be bringing you the latest, time-wasting, challenging, lose-sleep-into-the-wee-hours type of flash games.

This week we introduce Dale and Peakot, an adventure game from Miniclip. Your job: help grumpy old Dale (think Elmer Fudd meets Jason Lee in My Name is Earl) get his chickens back from the coyotes with the help of Peakot, his magic hen.

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