Large or small, with letters or blocks, hard or easy, it does not matter because puzzle games will always be the in top!



Top 20 online computer puzzle games for kids:
1. Blobs - it is a really simple game in where you have to remove as many colored balls as you can, with the help of the upper ball. You have to notice fast what the next color is and put it where it has to be. Be careful and do not let the balls to multiply too much because you will lose.

2. Vegetable garden - is a very fun and nice game where you must build a road so that the water will have access to all the plants in the garden. The goal is to do your best in all about the garden irrigation problem so the plants will return to life.

3. The Crazy Cube -  is a great 3D logic puzzle, very addictive. In this game you must unite the squares of the same color. When you will finish, the cube will disappear and you will move to the next level which will be much harder.



4. Pipe Down - is another free online 3D game, funny and great, one of the hottest games of the puzzle category. In this game, you have to arrange some pieces of pipe in the correct order to have continuity.

5. Puzzle Bobble - Surely... a resounding success in the worldwide arcades. One of the cult games in the history of video games, now also available online in an identical version to the original, mythical, is this great game, called Puzzle Bobble. Armed with a gun, shoot the colored bubbles and try to hit balls so you form groups of at least three bubbles of the same color. It is great with those online games because it’s easier to play. When you will want to play it, you need to start the game pressing the Enter key (or mouse click), to hit with bobbles use the arrow keys for left or right, and use the “space” key to shoot.



6. Where is the Ball
7. Wordo
8. Twiddle stix
9. Carnival Jackpot
10. Crazy Boxes
11. Smashing
12. MahJong
13. Space Out
14. Tetrix 2
15. Shanghai Dynasty
16. Cherry Bomb Tetris
17. Puzzle Mania X
18. Spot the difference
19. Way of an Idea
20. Zuma Lucky Balls

The top 20 computer puzzle games was made on a gamming site - counting the number of online players who accessed the games, so because it is not an official top, you should use the information as they are – pure information.




Minimum System Requirements for online puzzle games:
Operating System: Windows XP, Vista , Windows 7
Processor: 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Video Card: 128MB Direct3D compatible graphics
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 compatible
DirectX: 9.0c or higher
Keyboard and Mouse

FIFA 08 (also known as FIFA 2008, FIFA Football 08 and FIFA Soccer 08) is the fourth game of the popular series developed by Electronic Arts and it was released on October 16, 2007 for PC platforms, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, DS, PlayStation 3, N-Gage, and Wii.



On the cover of this great computer football game you will find Ronaldinho accompanied by a local star, depending on the area where the game will be distributed. FIFA 2008 will include the following soccer leagues: Serie A, Serie B, Primera Division, Segunda Division, Premier League, Football League Championship, Football League Two, Ligue 1, Ligue 2, Football League One, Austrian Bundesliga, Jupiler League (Belgium), Campeonato Brasileiro, Superligaen (Denmark), Bundesliga 1, Bundesliga 2,  Eredivisie (Holland), Major League Soccer (SUA), Primera Division de Mexico, Norwegian Tippeligaen, BWINLIGA (Portugal), Scottish Premier League, Allsvenskan (Sweden), Axpo Super League (Switzerland), Turkcell Super League, FAI Premier Division (Ireland), K-League (Korea), Polish Ekstraklasa.<

FIFA 2008 Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP, executable on Microsoft Windows Vista
Processor: 1.3 GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Video Card: 64 MB (AGP or PCI-E)* - recommended 128 MB RAM
DirectX: Direct-x 9 or higher installed.
Hard Disk: 4,500 MB available hard disk space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Installation: 8x DVD-ROM drive<

UEFA EURO 2008 is a computer football game which was released by Electronic Arts on April 11, 2008 for PC platforms, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and PSP. The game is officially licensed as a game of Euro 2008 and so the teams qualified for Euro 2008 which took place since June 7 to June 29, 2008 in Austria and Switzerland are:



Group A: Switzerland (hosts UEFA Euro 2008), Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey

Group B: Austria (UEFA Euro 2008 host), Germany, Croatia, Poland

Group C: Netherlands, Italy, Romania, France

Group D: Greece, Russia, Spain, Sweden

Even if for Euro 2008 are only 16 qualified teams, in the game will be available more than 50 teams. Also, a new game mode, Captain Your Country, was confirmed by Electronic Arts. Players will be on the field and they will have to win the title of the team captain to inspire his teammates and to lead them to victory. Battle of the Nations will be an online mode, where players will interact in order to lead their team to be the best, to rule the world. UEFA EURO 2008 is developed by EA Canada and it was included by PEGI in the 3+ category.

UEFA EURO 2008 Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 1.3 GHz or Athlon Equivalent
Memory: 256 MB
Hard Drive: 683 MB Free
Video Memory: 64 MB or higher
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c or higher
Keyboard & Mouse
Installation: CD/DVD Rom Drive

BioShock 2

As much as I like the great games, as much I am terrified knowing that they will inevitably have a continue. If the first was a success, it is impossible that the second not to be. You can say I'm more cynical than it is required but in the case of BioShock 2, the fact that the team which created it was replaced with a bunch of producers was not a good sign for me (I don't remember seeing a title made in collaboration with 4 studios - 5 if we count the guys from Arkane).



Who played the first BioShock knows that the Bouncer of Big Daddy model is the main character of the game. Yes, I'm talking about that walking diver suit with a huge drill, which when you shoot by mistake you can see that its "eyes" which are glowing red make you scream "I did not mean it! SORRY!"

Well if in BioShock you were a Joe Average dropped from the sky straight into a ruined underwater city called Rapture, this time you are Delta, a Big Daddy prototype from the Alpha series which is resurrected into a Vita Chamber at 8 years after the events from the previous game. And beside the fact that you can use plasmids, a luxury with which your "followers" can not praise, another thing which makes you unique is the fact that you were the first Big Daddy related with success with a Sister (Eleanor) who you have to protect. Sister who now has grown and requires your help through telepathic messages.



8 years were enough for the things to change in the lost paradise of Andrew Ryan. The splicers, the ex residents of the city who have modified their DNA so much that they went crazy, are more dangerous than ever, and as an answer "the powers that be" have created a new Big Daddy model called Rumbler which can face the hyenas which are hunting the ADAM gathered by the Sisters. More, Rapture is now under the control of Sofia Lamb, a lady with an altruistic belief and visibly different than the promoted individualism by Andrew Ryan, belief which finally have sent her straight into prison. Fact which ironically was an advantage in the end.

For a population which passed through a very brutal civil war, the notion of Family sustained by Sofia Lamb and transformed into some religion by "Father" Wales has represented a fundamental change compared to the law of the jungle adopted by Andrew Ryan. That is why the splicers from BioShock 2 will not only kill you because of the ADAM addiction which has transformed them into monsters, but also because they see you as a threat to a community which welcomes them with their arms wide open.

Assassin's Creed 2

With all of its shortcomings (although it was called Director's Cut Edition), the PC version of Assassin's Creed has numbered between the best titles of 2008 and the excellent sales of the game and the feedback received from the community and the critics were enough in order to cool down the guys from Ubisoft who thought that it is a mistake to blindly finance a trilogy. Since then 2 years have past and now Assassin's Creed 2 invites us again to go between the lines of those who consider that "Nothing is true. Everything is allowed".



Assassin's Creed you ran wildly on the Holy Ground, this time you will jump through time with approximately 300 years, landing in the Italian Renaissance in the 15 century. An Italy made out of state-cities, where the banks had something to say, the art and culture were in top, the powerful families were fighting each other with the help of the mercenaries, and conspiracies and crimes for the usurped power were happening daily. More important is that the events from Assassin's Creed 2 go for about 23 years so you won't be in action right from the beginning, but you will slowly transform into a master assassin along with Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Unlike Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio is a noble young man who at the beginning of the story lives a careless life with his family, being preoccupied on how to entertain the young ladies from Florence, having no clue about the night activities of his father, Giovanni (who you can follow on the video Assassin's Creed 2: Lineage). This existence is brutally destroyed in the moment the Auditore family is betrayed, and Giovanni is executed with Ezio's two brothers, and he swears to get his revenge.

But wishing somebody death is not enough in order to get this done, especially when you are dealing with the Templar Knights, so Ezio will need the help from anyone who wants to help him, either it is about his uncle Mario or a young artist and inventor named Leonardo da Vinci. Here we are dealing with the main plus of the game - the way the characters and the historical events fit in the story.



I'm saying this because you will meet also Niccolo Machiavelli, Caterina Sforza, Girolamo Savonarola and Lorenzo de' Medici, and are added letters or discoveries related to Dante Alighieri, Marco Polo, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Ghandi, Joana D'arc, Hitler, Rasputing or even J.F. Kennedy's assassination. And what is really impressive is the fact that introducing these events and famous names is so natural, that the first reaction you have when you will discover them is "this is so cool" instead of "yea right", thing which can only make the producers happy.

Battle vs. Chess is a free computer chess game, announced by TopWare Interactive, which will be released for Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game is based on Fritz engine, developed by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist together with ChessBase.

Because chess has the same rules of hundreds of years, developers rely on integrating the game in today’s era. Thus, Battle vs. Chess will benefit of 3D animation, the graphics for the pieces will be restyled and the soundtracks will be unique. I know it seems to be a great game but we will have to wait a little longer for it because Battle vs. Chess will be released only in the second half of 2010, most likely in August.


Battle vs. Chess Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
Processor: Pentium 3 @ 1 GHz CPU or higher
Memory: 256 Mb
Hard Drive: 1.2 GB free space
Video Memory: 32 Mb
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Installation: DVD Rom Drive

Others Chess games:
Chessmaster
Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition
Wizard Chess
Hoyle Majestic Chess
Power Chess 98
Power Chess
Play Chess: Deep Fritz Grand Master Deluxe
Play Chess Fritz
Disney’s Aladdin Chess Adventures
Battleship Chess
Battle Chess Collection
Extreme Chess
Microsoft Chess
Cyber Chess
Combat Chess
Tournament Chess 2
The Chessmaster 3000
Lego Chess
Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess Vol. 1 – How to Play the Queen’s Gambit
Karpov 3D Chess
Star Wars Chess
Virtual Chess Academy
USCF Chess
Fritz 9: Play Chess

Another interesting free computer game is Virtual Skipper 5 (also known as 32nd America's Cup) which is a water simulator, developed by Nadeo in collaboration with Focus Home Interactive, exclusively for Pc. Since November 2008, the game is available for free download to all its fans. Virtual Skipper 5 has four game modes for both beginners and advanced. Will be 14 routes on the water around the world and a few examples would be Valencia, Marseille, Malmo, San Francisco, Sydney, Vancouver, etc.

The players who want to try it should know that in the game they will find an editor, which helps them to create their own boats or water routes. Virtual Skipper 5 also has an online mode, with competitions integrated, ranking system and chat.



So, if you liked one game of the Virtual Skipper series (Virtual Skipper, Virtual Skipper 1, Virtual Skipper 2, 3, and 4), you should try this version too because you have 3 reasons to do it: it’s a free game, you can create your own routes and boats, and because you like competitions !!?

Virtual Skipper 5 Minimum System Requirements:
Minimum System Requirements
Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or Vista
Processor: Pentium 2 CPU or higher
Memory: 256 Mb
Hard Disk: 1.5 GB free space
Video Card: SVGA
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 8.0 or higher
Keyboard, Mouse
Installation: CD or DVD Rom Drive

Alpha Protocol

Obsidian Entertainment is through the few studios in which I have trust. For many games you can go on the idea that "I assume from the start that it's going to be ugly", but when you talk about a product designed by Obsidian (or some few other companies), the geek from me can't help from jumping around screaming "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!".

And from some points of view, Alpha Protocol is a way important RPG (Role Playing Game) for Obsidian then it was Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2 or Mask of the Betrayer at their time. On those games they only had to continue with the quality, but at the base it was working with something already set. This time, Chris Avellone and the company are 100% on their own - their own story, own chats and characters, game play decisions and so on. If something is not right, they can't give as a reason "well you know, Wizard of the Coast did not allow us to do it that way because we would have". This time they had full freedom to create a RPG after their appearance and personalities.



Even if some will sustain the contrary, I consider that the RPGs will remain (maybe forever) some niche games. I'm talking here about worthy RPGs, not any title which has experience points and some skills and after that they call it a RPG. If we would be serious for a second, since Dungeons & Dragons we, the gamers have that classical appearance of geeks with dices in hands. On one side this was a marginalization of the gaming passionate, on the other side, the fairies, elves, orcs and wizards with magical sticks which split the mountain in two have become rules. That is why, when the first information about Alpha Protocol have appeared I could not be surprised because I was dealing with a modern and well anchored in reality universe.



It seems that in our days, a terrorist attack destroys a passenger place, the main suspects are the Al Samad members, a group of people with anti American politics. The situation won't be this alarming if in this mess would not be involved some rockets manufactured by the Halbech corporation, the main provider of weapons for the United States and not only. Here you come in, Michael Thorton, recently recruited by the Alpha Protocol organization in order to hunt the responsible for the attack and to discover how some top generation American rockets have landed in the hands of some Islamic extremis.

But before you become the coolest secret agent since Jason Bourne, you will have to choose the difficulty level and the protagonist history. The history determines the way in which the skill points will be placed on the nine branches available, the Freelancer option is the "free one", where you can spread them as you wish.

Just Cause 2

Welcome to Panay, a dictatorial republic populated by different Asian people and led by a guy who is frustrated by his appearance that he builds all sorts of statues of himself in order to compensate. The country of all bananas, filled with military bases.


Rico Rodriguez, the revolutionary maniac from the first game is back. And we are not talking about Che Guevara - Rodriguez is not a romantic fool who runs after hippie things like the nationalization of the transportation means. Sent by the Agency, the international hand of the United States which slaps anyone who turns his back on them, Rico has the ordinary task: to remove the little "Baby" Panay from leading the country and to serve him to his boss.


Saboteur, assassin, pilot, driver, skydiver and sapper - you would say that Rico is handling all the necessary knowledge for systematic breaking of the military enclaves of Panay. But he could not hijack even a school bus if he did not have a pistol with a hook and a James Bond parachute. No, not that kind of parachute.

The athlete qualities of the hero are not uncommon, but the mentioned gadgets allow you to travel relatively fast no matter the place, and the quick travel system is represented by a place which throws you in any previous explored area. This besides the weapon and vehicle delivery service, in exchange of a generous amount of money. Not to mention the 104 air, water and land vehicles which by the way are not hard to pilot - on the contrary, they are really to manipulate even at high speeds, the only impediment in the path for arcade mechanics perfection is represented by the collision system, which is the main reason for the boats to bounce off the smallest obstacles, as unnatural as the cars do.


With all these, the moments in which you will feel his problem are related with some of the 75 racing challenges, because in rest you are not required to travel across landscapes with boats. Although I suggest you not to fear these challenges because many of them are entertaining and innovating. They use not only transporting means but also the skills of the player to control the character in free fall or with the parachute, from going through the tight alleys of the Panay cities and up to exploring the swamps from one corner of the map with a motor boat.

Of course, the races don't represent the central element because only in a movie with Paul Walker and Vin Diesel you could start a coup with a V8 engine in stead of a V4 rocket. So, you will split the approximately 100 hours of game play in missions, working for the Agency.

Metro 2033

The post apocalyptic worlds are certainly part of the most favorite subjects of the computer games manufacturers from the ex soviet space. From that direction came: STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl or Cryostasis, titles with a great atmosphere. With all these, the reputation of the same manufacturers is not so good; their games are running in different technical problems.


In combination, the qualities of the stories and the technical problems have made the players very cautious, and Metro 2033 is not far from this mixed line. As their ex colleagues from GSC, the Ukrainians from 4A Games are inspired from literature for their post apocalyptic shooter: more precisely the novel of the young Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovski.

The action from Metro 2033 takes place into a Moscow which is destroyed by an atomic holocaust, and the survivors have retreat inside the tunnels of the famous metro from the Russian capital and transforming the stations in small communities. From all these unlucky people, Artyom is being remarked (no the football player), a young man who has never seen the outside world, but who discovers that he is somehow immune to the telepathic attacks of the monsters known as Dark Ones.


Thanks to this gift, Artyom is sent to deliver a critical message, but not very clear, into another metro station - Polis - situated in the opposite side of the tunnel network. Obviously, his entire journey is essential for the survival of the whole humanity, and the entire story is said straight from his point of view. Although, Artyom does not speak only between the missions, when being in a mission he is mute in the Half-Life 2 style with Gordon Freeman at power, which spoils pretty much the immersion and any empathy with his mission.

On the other side, the action is filled with semi interactive cinematic sequences, surprisingly placed. I woke up pretty often with the hero taking his destiny in his own virtual hands, so that after that, to retake the control into an extremely hot situation. These unexpected passing ads more to the pushing atmosphere from the underworld, weak illuminated or not illuminated at all, filled with remains and especially with all kinds of scary monsters.


Because Artyom must pass a long maze of tunnels, most of his adventure involves killing different enemies, humans or monsters. The underworld is spread in all sorts of colonies, not all friendly and many bandits are looking for careless "tourists". Some survivors are Nazi, others are communists and Artyom is in the middle of their conflict, a real critic of the two systems which have changed the face of the world in the last decades. Besides the battles with humans, all kind of monsters, zombies and mutants are in the path of our hero. The action becomes extremely hot especially that all the animals are provided with a great speed.

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

The story from Forgotten Sands is placed between Sands of Time and Warrior Within and it is extremely thin. It seems that the price in position of a kid, a little smarter after the events from Sands of Time, hits over the eternal recycled invasion of a weak kingdom, used as a negative catalyst since four games ago. In this case, the kingdom of Malik, his older brother. This theme of brother love, jealousy and loyalty, were explored way better in a pack of other stories, here it exists only by the name. Ironically, even the recent blockbuster from Disney has more alive and clean-cut characters.



The plot spins around a new reckless decision, which this time does not free an army of demons made out of sand (Sands of Time) or some ancient evil entity which represents all the evil of the world (Prince of Persia 2008), but an army of demons made out of sand which are led by an evil entity which represents all the evil from the world. And that's about it related to this good computer games. The character is a djinn with a low-cut neck, and the new mechanics comes under the shape of some powers obtained successively along the adventure.

In fact, this is the strength of Forgotten Sands - the multitude of fireworks the platform gains thanks to the prince's skills. You can freeze the water, evoke platforms or walls, etc. And when all these skills are put together into one single series of jumps you will understand what I am saying when I say that I appreciate this Prince of Persia as being the most interesting one from the platform point of view.

What's fair, there are no special traps or complicated obstacle systems. Besides the elemental skills which alternate the world, nothing substantially new has been introduced, and the difficulty of the security systems is indisputable, especially if you increased the life bar, which allows you to make mistakes without waking back to the checkpoint.

On the other side, the running and jumping sessions' architecture is meticulously executed which is hard to ignore, maybe the only dissatisfaction is that the track is never complicated. It is varied, the learning curve is convenient and you have to excuse to ever staying put: the next platform is always obvious and natural. Even if we don't own the dagger anymore, we still have the ability to play with time, but with this not being the central element of this good computer game, there are no other ways to manipulate this concept.



The problem is that you don't have that excitement like in Sands of Time or Warrior Within, where even on the backtracking parts you were motivated by a part of the story: a new hypothesis in the theory of destiny change, a princess to save (or beat, depending on the moment), an evil vizier in possession of the greatest artifact, etc.

One of the most wanted computer games is Sims. There are many games in Sims series but one of the most interesting ones is Sims 3.



Sims 3 is developed by Maxis and Electronic Arts and it was released in 2009 for Pc, and this year will be released also for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS. Sims 3 - PC version and Sims 3 Collector's Edition version were released in June 2009. After exceeded sales beyond all expectations and after 7 extension-packs, the people from Electronic Arts started a new chapter in the Sims adventures. The biggest change to Sims 3 is that the game is taking place in a wide-open city that is changing continuously. Core activities, often annoying: eating, sleeping or going to the bathroom will be made more discreet, and these will be replaced with activities such as: exploring the city or having social activities in the city.

If the activities of 'extra' Sims family occurred via extension-pack until now, it seems that Sims 3 will allow players to have a much more freedom even from the very beginning, in terms of core activities and the methods of having fun in the free time that can take place within the new city. Players will have the opportunity to meet their friends on the street, go to the park or to establish a meeting with them in the "center."



The characters editor was improved, the "Create a Sim" mode is something more personal in Sims 3. The "percentage toolbar" was replaced with a similar description to those present in the matrimonial ads. It seems that once with the computer game Sims 3, players will be able to create also obese characters, with much more freedom than in previous editions. And when I talk about those kinds of changes, I mean that in  Sims 3 you can customize everything, from eye color selection to clothing and accessories. Gamers can also choose the Sims characters from 701 distinct personalities and there they can also find a series of extreme personalities – paranoid, kleptomaniac, mean to animals, obsessed, true geniuses etc. Gamers will be able to change their house and neighborhood, to personalize them as they like: to choose the floors, sofas,  flowers and everything until to change the style of the buildings in the neighborhood.

Same as in Career Mode, in Sims 3 will exist an ultimate dream of each character and if the like, players will be able to make it come true. For example, one of the Sims can dream to be an astronaut, rock star or a billionaire. Fulfilling the dream will be made slow by taking small steps and there will be a number of rewards for reaching a new threshold, closer to achieving the ultimate dream.



Sims 3 Minimum System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows XP SP 2/Windows Vista

Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+

Memory: 1 Gb RAM

Video Memory: 128 Mb

Video Card: GeForce FX 5900 or higher (GeForce Go 6200 for Laptops) / Radeon 9500 (Radeon Mobile 9600 for Laptops)

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

DirectX: 9.0c

Installation: DVD-ROM 4x

Others Sims games:

Console versions:

The Sims

The Sims Bustin' Out

The Urbz: Sims in the City

The Sims 2

The Sims 2: Pets

The Sims 2: Castaway

The Sims Stories:

The Sims Life Stories

The Sims Pet Stories

The Sims Castaway Stories

MySims series:

MySims

MySims Party

MySims  Kingdom

Other The Sims games:

The Sims Online (Currently known as EA Land)

The Sims Pool

The Sims Carnival