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This month is a bit quite in the gaming section, at least no new releases interest me yet. But today, I was lucky enough and found this game through BuzzFeed – Flash Element TD 2 created by CasualCollective. As you can tell from the title of this post, you might have figured out TD stands for tower defense. It plays just like PixelJunk Monsters, well obviously since both are tower defense games. And even though its free, I couldn’t stop playing it. Its that addictive!

Flash Element TD 2 has three levels of difficulty (easy, harder and ouch) to choose from and each with its own path to test your defense tower skills. I tried harder twice and I didn’t do too well. I was able to get to the 50th level on easy but could never beat the final wave of what the game calls them, creeps. The objective is simple, defend your elements by building/selling and upgrading different types of towers. If one of the creeps managed to steal one of the elements from you, you will still have a chance to kill it before it gets away from where it came from. The element will be dropped at where the creep died, once all elements are stolen, the game is over.

There are 5 main types of towers – arrow, cannon, sticky, sniper tower and fire tower and their corresponding stronger version, so a total of 10 towers. There are also five elements, each will allow you to build the corresponding type of tower. So basically you can build the type of tower by having that particular element. There is also a store where you can purchase three elements which are not given to you at the start of the game. You can pay to have your elements dropped anywhere on the path back to where they are suppose to be and you can increase your interest earned from finishing each battle. Also want to point out that the sticky tower, which is similar to the Ice Tower from PixelJunk Monsters

What this game differs, in a good way, is you can pay to dare which the next wave of creeps will have 2x more HP than normal and double dare, well take a guess, 4x more HP AND move faster! I have yet to try double dare as I have enough problem killing the creeps in the last few stages. I did manage to win a few dares at the start of the level where everything is still easy to kill.

There are two other small, but fun features that I also want to mention. These creeps speaks funny and there is an option to make them explode when killed! The corpse explosion really satisfies my sadistic side as the game puts it!

Flash Element TD 2 is one hella addictive Flash game. Anyone that is to tower defense games should give this one a try. The main concept is basically the same, defend! But some of the features really make this one shine.

If you’re looking for some more flash games there are some pretty addictive puzzle games out there. The Impossible Quiz is a pretty good one. It has a bunch of questions but the answers are not as easy as you might suspect. If you want more tower defense games, Bloons Tower Defense 3 is another good game. Think you’re up for the challenge?

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Just when I thought there’s nothing special this month for my PS3, but PlayStation.Blog surprised me with news regarding two Metal Gear Solid Premium Packs available on the PlayStation Store on December 23rd. The Metal Gear Solid Premium Costume Pack will contain Snake’s costume, obviously, as well as costumes for Meryl Silverburgh, Screaming Mantis and Raiden. The costume pack goes for $5.99 or $1.99 each. I lied about getting the Street Fighter pack, but I AM pretty sure I will be getting this pack! I promise!

And that’s not all, there is also a Metal Gear Solid Premium Level Pack. This pack contains the Gurlokovich Soldier costume, plus 72 stickers, 12 materials, 10 decorations, 18 objects, 5 new Story Levels as well as 1 new Challenge Level. You would think wow that’s a lot of content, think again because there are more! You will also be getting (from PlayStation.Blog):

- 3 new background music tracks
- 1 new interactive music track
- 1 new Metal Gear Solid themed ‘sound object’
- New Plasma Ball ‘danger element’
- New Laser Sight ‘gadget’
- 12 new Trophies to unlock
- New functioning Searchlight lamp – for those special ‘exclamation mark’ moments
- …and finally, the piece de resistance…THE PAINTINATOR (and Paint Switch)

If you don’t want to purchase this level pack, you can still play this level by joining a host that has the level. Though you cannot obtain any items from the levels. Don’t be cheap and get it!

The best part is this level pack is only $5.99, consider the costume to be $0.99, you are paying $5.00 for 6 new levels along with tons of stickers, materials, objects, music tracks and my favorite of all, THE PAINTINATOR. This is pretty much the first “weapon” for LittleBigPlanet where you are actually holding something and shooting something from it, in this case paint. These levels and the THE PAINTINATOR will show what LittleBigPlanet can really do, the future is bright for this littlebiggame. (you read that right, littlebiggame)

I am really excited and looking forward to getting these two packs, guess these will be my Christmas presents.

And while we wait, please enjoy this beautifully done video of Metal Gear Solid x LittleBigPlanet levels, hands down to whoever designed this level.

Image source: PlayStation.Blog’s Photostream

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Google Chrome, a new web browser released today to compete with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari and others. I’ve beta tested with IE 8 and I was not particularly happy with the bug I found. Let’s see if Google’s first ever browser will be better or worse.

I immediately tried to load my Project Mobius web site up to see if something funny would happy. I assumed it was because Flash plug-in wasn’t installed for this browser. While downloading, I went to this blog page for a quick test. The page loaded fine it seemed, but there was a popup that disappeared way before I was able to read the sentence which was really annoying. If the message was meant to be displayed for a mere half a second, why even bother? After refreshing the page and trying to read the error message word by word. I managed to figure out that it was complaining about addition plug-in (again related to the Flash plug-in) was required to display some elements on the page and those elements were shown at the bottom left of the page. The problem was fixed right away after installing the Flash plug-in.

Overall in terms of user interface, its almost like using any other browsers out there. Even the buttons look similar although the placements are slightly different but you will never be in a situation where you cannot find a particular function, well most of the time. I actually prefer the button placements for Chrome over IE8 Beta because in IE8 Beta, the Favorites button is located right next to the Refresh button with little space in between. Where as in Chrome, there is at least some space between the two buttons. It has the Favorites or the bookmarks bar just below the location bar much like in IE8 Beta which I dislike (I hid it right away). Chrome can also have the option to hide the entire bar along with the double arrows. I would rather have the double arrows remain there like IE8 Beta, instead of pressing Ctrl+B to toggle the entire bookmarks bar section on and off. But overall I think Chrome is very clean, a little bit too plain I should say. They should work on the top frame because I am not feeling the plain blue bar at all.

I opened a new tab by clicking the little plus sign and it displayed pages I’ve visited. I could also see a full history and delete a certain day’s history similar to IE. Would be nice if there’s a button somewhere on the page to go back to the previous page instead of always clicking the Back button on the top left. Sorry just being a little picky here.

One minor problem I encountered was when I mouse overed the title, it would not be displayed as a clickable link because somehow I’m guessing its still referencing the top layer when the two div tags were too close to each other, as with my blog’s navigation links and the newest entry’s title link. , which was the navigation links. I couldn’t even select the text from that title.

I only use the basic functions during web surfing such as finding a particular text on a page, going back to previous pages, bookmarking interesting places and etc. I don’t see why I would switch from one of the existing browsers over to Chrome as I’m a very casual web browsing user. But one thing for certain is that, Chrome’s stability is much higher than that of IE which I had problems with while testing IE8 Beta. I definitely will look forward to future releases of Google Chrome.

For more information, please visit the learn more page on Google.