Casual online multiplayer games are all the rage now, and Cafe.com is one of those little wonders that you may have not discovered yet. Cafe.com lets you play Flash games against real opponents for free, and with added features like multiplayer “boosts”, avatars, chat, and leaderboards, you’ll experience your favorite casual games like never before.

You are not going to be impressed with this game at first glance. It is going to seem somewhat cheap and kitchy, and you are going to wonder why we liked it. But trust us on this one, if you play it for a few levels, you will find yourself drawn to it. Like a [...]

Two numbers keep popping up when people talk about Bookworm Adventures Deluxe: $30 to buy the game and $700,000 to make the game. Is it worth either? Depends on who you ask. In our case, we give a cautious yes, though we’re sure we don’t like the trend of higher budgets and higher price points [...]

Remember alphabet soup? If you do, then you probably also remember happily spelling out words with your letters until your mom told you to stop playing with your food and eat. Well, you better call her and scold her. Those skills you carefully honed are going to pay off big time.

You know why I hate casual word games? Because I am tired of spelling the same 3-4 letter words over and over and over again while some timer stresses me out. And finally, someone has a game design that solves that: Word Monaco. Essentially, it’s classic solitaire, but instead of matching cards, you are matching [...]

Were not really huge fans of word games in general – they tend to be cheap knockoffs of wordsearch or boggle, and have little else to recommend them over the crossword in the paper. But every now and then someone comes up with something new in the space, and in the case of Babel, they [...]

Word puzzle games need more than just challenging word puzzles and interesting play modes. They need a good storyline and a compelling reason to play on. Breaking News provides that reason. When you assemble combinations of letters into words in this game, you’re broadcasting the latest news stories on TV, and the faster you play, [...]

Dark mages are always causing trouble and planning destruction and unhappiness. Playfirst’s “Spellagories,” is no exception. Dark mages lurk near each of the kingdom’s castles turning all the villagers into hideous beasts and only you and your excellent spelling skills can save them. And to help you hone those skills, I’ve got a simple, tasty [...]