Sites We Like: multiplayer retro space battles, infographic explosion and partying pandas

It’s time for Sites We Like, your Friday dose of wonderous web content to distract you from the work day. But hey, it’s Friday and Friday is officially slacking off on the web day. Read on for a brilliant but utterly simple online multiplayer game where you can school your work colleagues in retro space battles, pandas who love to party, amazing infographics…

Recommended by Mic…

Rawkets

Did you used to like Space Invaders and Asteroids? Now you can relive those days playing Rawkets, a multiplayer online 8-bit space battler. It’s ridiculous but really quite fun.

Recommended by Ben…
Pandas Love To Party
It says an awful lot about humanity that there are enough photos in the world of pandas being fed birthday cake to justify a Tumblr blog dedicated to the pursuit. Shouldn’t we being curing cancer or something? Never mind, just give that bear a gateaux and let me see!

Recommended by Jen…
Spatial Analysis
Despite the academic sounding title, James Cheshire, a PhD student at UCL, makes fascinating interactive data maps – journeys on Boris bikes, the most common surnames in London mapped geographically and a Gawker passwords Wordle are our favourites.

Recommended by James…
Red Light Runner
Those rare Apple collectibles we rounded-up this week? You can still get some of them without an arduous search. Check out Red Light Runner, which stocks official Apple collectibles, so you don’t have to trawl the depths of eBay to fuel your fandom.

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