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Monopoly City Streets: A Google Powered Online Monopoly Game

Monopoly  City Streets is a live global game of MONOPOLY that turns the world’s cities into a giant Monopoly City game board using Google Maps. You can virtually own any street across the world and play to become the richest property magnate in the world.

Unlike the traditional board game edition, there are no playing pieces or movements. Rent is paid out by the game itself each day, which are based on the properties you buy for the site, and not by other players. You get to earn rent from your properties every day, even if you don’t play. Your rent is calculated automatically by the game so that you can focus more on your property buying rather than being good at math.

You’ll start with a bank balance of 3 Million Monopoly Dollars. You can start by buying and owning the very street you live in. Then follow it up by buying friend’s streets, your neighborhood, your town, cities, and the world. You can own virtually any street across the globe.

The game will be live and open until January 31, 2010.

We want to watch the popularity of the site in the coming months and see how consumers react. But at the present time, we are planning on closing the application on Jan. 31, 2010. We can’t speculate on what we may decide to do at that point.

Play against the world and enjoy a live and global game of MONOPOLY.

Tags: Google, google maps, monopoly, Monopoly Streets

BetYourFollowers: Bet Your Twitter Followers for Real

Here’s something new that you can do with your Twitter followers, place them as bets on BetYourFollowers. It’s a Twitter game that lets you wager your followers for the chance of winning more. You can use this app to get rid of spam followers/ bot followers by using them as bets.

How to Play

Sign in with your Twitter account and allow access to BetYourFollowers. Then choose which followers you want to bet and start shaking the screen like a Polaroid picture. You can increase your chances of winning by shaking the gorilla and taking on low-risk opponents. You can battle other Twitter friends — if you defeat them, you win followers. If you lose, you lose followers — for real!

BetYourFollowers is an unusual way of gaining new Twitter followers – that is provided that you win most battles. If you lose, you can always ask the followers you lost to follow you back again. Just be careful on who you use as bets, some of them might not be too happy if you lose them to someone else and might not follow again. If they choose not to follow you again, at least you get to gain new/random followers on battles that you’ve won. Who knows, maybe you’ll make new Twitter friends this way and lose unworthy followers.

Tags: Bet Followers, BetYourFollowers, Gain Twitter Followers, twitter, Twitter Game

Jam Legend: The Web Version of Guitar Hero

Jam Legend is a game site that simulates the thrill of rocking out for a sold out crowd much like the popular console game Guitar Hero and Rock Band. You can either play with your keyboard or use any plastic guitar that is recognized by your PC. You need to download drivers and controller packs if you want to use the guitars that work with your favorite consoles. They have a wiki site that will guide you through the installation process for plastic guitar controllers that works with Mac and Windows.

JamLegend lets you play more songs, by more artists, with more friends, whenever and wherever you are, and all for free!

Jam Legend Features

Turn-Based Multiplayer: Duel your friends through E-mail, IM, or social networks (coming soon!) and let them play on their schedule.

Real-time Massive Multiplayer: Take on thousands of users in live, real-time showdowns.

New Songs: Experience new songs as artists join the JamLegend Platform

Compete with Everyone: Become JamLegendry as you see how you rank against other players from around the world

Tournaments: Earn prizes for being the best

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If you couldn’t find a song that you want to play on their list, you can upload your own songs. Jam Legend uses digital signal processing, beat detection, and other automatic song analysis. It takes the song and converts it into a playable track within a few minutes.

Artists also get a chance to promote their music in a fun and engaging way. If you’re an artist, you can apply to be on the artist platform. This may be your stepping stone to stardom.

If you’re tired of playing guitar games on your favorite console and want to try out new songs and meet new friends online check out the web version and upload your favorite song and play it immediately.

Tags: Guitar Hero, Jam Legend, Social Games, Social Networking, Web Based Game

The Game Crafter: Create and Publish Your Own Card/Board Game

The Game Crafter is a place where you can publish your very own card game or board game. If you have a great idea for a game, you can start your creation process by downloading their free templates for the design.

There’s a community forum where you can consult experts about your creation. You can also join in the conversation and make your own suggestions. This will enable you to share your thoughts as well as get feedback from others to make your game even better.

You can use the cost estimator to calculate the least cost of your game. This will allow you to set your price properly when you publish it on the online shop. Watch the video below to get a glimpse of how the cost estimator works.

After you’ve created your game components, you can upload your game using our simple wizard-based interface. They will provide you with all the pawns, dice, play money, and other game parts you need to flesh out your game. Their software will automatically adjust your images for you if you don’t upload the correct sizes. However, your images may not look as you intended them to.

After uploading your game, The Game Crafter will tell you exactly how much it costs to manufacture that game. You can buy copies at that price, but you can also set a price that visitors should pay. You and TGC get split the profit of each sale 50/50, and you get a royalty payment at the end of each month.

At TGC, you can start selling your game with only the push of a button. There are no up-front fees, no contractural obligations, no distributors, and you don’t need a big publisher to decide your game will sell 10,000 units in the first year.

Tags: Create Board Games, Create Card Games, Games, Sell Board Games, Sell Card Games, The Game Crafter

DestroyBox: Thousands of Free Flash Games for You

Here’s a new website that casual gamers would definitely find to their liking. DestroyBox offers thousands of free flash games for you to enjoy. The games found on DestroyBox are carefully categorized so that you can easily find the game that best suits you. Links of related and random games can also be found on each game page.

Not only that DestroyBox allows you to play those cool short games for free, you can also track your favorite games by logging-in using a Google/Yahoo/OpenID account. Once you’ve logged in, just press the favorite button. This way, you can go back and play the games that you’ve enjoy most without searching the entire site over again. Searching DestroyBox for a game that you’ve previously played could take some time for the site is constantly updated and could mean more trouble for you if you’ve forgotten the title of the game. Marking a game as your favorite is probably the best way for you to easily finding it again so that you can play and share it with your friends.

This is another recommended site to visit if you are looking for short games that will bring you loads of fun. Whether you like violent puzzle games, shooting, mind games, adventure, sports or board games, you’ll surely find a game for you in DestroyBox.

Tags: DestroyBox, Flash Games, Free Games, Game Site, Games

TypingWeb: Online Typing Lessons and Typing Games

TypingWeb is a free online typing tutor that you can use to train yourself to type faster. Not only that, you can also have loads of fun while improving your typing skills. Aside from the normal typing courses, you can enjoy different games that are designed to help you type faster and more accurately. You can also engage in typing tests to monitor your overall progress.

TypingWeb learns your most troublesome keys as you type the lessons. Once TypingWeb has learned which keys cause you the most trouble, a custom generated lesson can be accessed for practicing just your top problem keys!

The service is free but if you want access to an ad free account and premium lessons with priority support, you can upgrade your account for just a small fee. If you don’t mind the ads, the free service works just fine and will improve your typing skills just the same. The typing games and “just for fun” games are also free for you to play.

This is a great place online to train yourself to type better. The games will surely encourage kids to use the service and become more efficient with the keyboard. It also eliminates the need to download typing tutor software and provides better learning experience with its cool web interface making typing lessons much less boring.

Tags: Online Typing Tutor, Type Faster, Typing Games, Typing Lessons, Typing Tutor