Cut the Rope and Angry Birds are being made into board games – but it’s far from a new idea. What about other games made into board games? We’ll we’ve got a packed list right here, complete with pics of each.
Suffice to say you may be surprised at some to be given the desktop treatment…
Here’s a brilliant way to waste time this morning: The World’s Biggest Pac-Man. Designed by Soap Creative, the game puts together user created maps to create a vast interconnected nest of mazes.
The game uses HTML5 and is genius. You can choose where to start by clicking on a square and, if you log in via Facebook, the game will keep track of which Pac-Man maps you’ve visited and your lifetime stats. Warning: start playing and you be addicted!
Out now | £free | World’s Biggest Pac-Man
Angry Birds is getting bigger and bigger. Just last week we saw Angry Birds Rio announced and Peter Vesterbacka, the self-styled Mighty Eagle of Rovio, has been talking about the future. Needless to say, Rovio’s plans for Angry Birds are extremely wide in scope. The rival its got in the crosshairs? Mario.
After a suggestion that Angry Birds might outdo Pac-Man, Vesterbacka suggested he wants to go for something bigger: “What we’re doing is building out the Angry Birds world. Pac-Man is only game. Mario is a better benchmark.” It may well be but do you think Angry Birds can fly past Mario? Or is that hyperbole?
Out now | £varies | Angry Birds (via Wired)
The T-Mobile G1‘s already been out for more than 24 hours, and if you’re anything like us, you’ll have blitzed through all of the Android apps available right now for free already. Bored from all that social networking? Fizzled out from all that photo sharing? Don’t worry, there’s still plenty left to entertain you.
Fire up your thumbs, and start racking up high scores with these top Android games instead!
The T-Mobile G1 isn’t out yet, but already games publishers are paying attention. Namco Bandai just announced owners will be able to download chomping computer classic Pac-Man for free, as soon as it launches in November. Read more
