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Zombie Killin' Goodness

Today, to keep our little Flash arcade growing, we've added the following games for all you zombie fans out there.

• Boxhead: The Rooms
• Boxhead: The Zombie Wars
• The Last Stand 2
• Zombie Rampage
• Zombie Survival

...Braaaaaaains! ;)

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New Flash Games

In hopes of better catering to everyone who prefers their addictive little guilty pleasures to be browser-based, today we've kicked up our (so-called) selection of Flash games a little by adding a number of titles from Crazy Monkey Games, including:

Busy Burger	Crazy Flasher 4	Fuzzy Mcfluffenstein
Super Ninja Strike	Spell Duelist	Ultimate Defense

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Become Our Fan on Facebook

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Some RPG Goodness

For RPG fans out there, we've just added Aveyond and Aveyond 2 to our featured games page.

For those of you who don't know, Aveyond is a critically acclaimed and award winning indie RPG series by Amaranth Games. If you're a PC gamer who likes old-school roleplaying games with an anime-inspired aesthetic (like the early incarnations of Final Fantasy, for example), then you should definitely check out Aveyond and Aveyond 2.

Read Our Lips...

Yesterday, one of us received the following message in an email from the Video Game Voters Network. It isn't hard to argue that this is a solid win for gamers everywhere.


The proposed New Mexico video game tax was defeated and is no longer a threat! This is an important victory for our community and the Video Game Voters Network.

Last week, VGVN members in New Mexico sent letters to their state legislators to denounce the proposed bill that subjected video game purchases to an additional tax. Thanks in part to the swift action of New Mexico members, the New Mexico House Business and Industry Committee rejected the bill on a 9-0 vote. Many New Mexico legislators had never heard a constituent defend video games. By taking this step, members across the country can actively participate in defending future legislation.

The Sierra Club of New Mexico supported a video games tax to fund a government campaign to promote outdoor education for children. Adam Thierer, senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, disagrees with such a tax. In an editorial on CNET.com, he wrote "legislators shouldn't be using the tax code to play the role of nanny for our kids. It is the responsibility and right of parents to determine how their kids are raised."

Proposed laws, like the one in New Mexico, put the fight for video games in perspective. We must continually remind our elected officials that as voters, gamers, developers, and parents, we will not support video games being singled out and treated differently than movies, books and television. When we do stand up and fight, we win.

New Games for the Holidays

For all of you gamers out there who simply can't wait for Santa or the family to give you all those great games you just know you're gonna get in celebration of the holidays; right now, you can get a great indie fix from our games page. We've recently beefed up our gaming selection a little with a few great third-party indie titles, and there's more to come. So check them out now, and treat yourself to some holiday desktop fun while supporting independent game developers.

Starting With Little To No Money

Hey, my name is Ezell. I am a consultant for NinjaGirl Productions and a friend of Chris O'Connell. I have just finished a new software product called Newborn Notes. Like NinjaGirl, I am also an indie developer, but this is my real first desktop software.

The reason why I create software is because I want to know if movies like 'the Pursuit of Happiness' could happen to me. So in my mind, I asked myself if a guy with only 20 dollars in his bank account could become independently wealthy. Now I have the chance to find out. I took 20 dollars bought a domain and host, built a website, developed a small program and uploaded it. Please check it out and we will see!

In the Spirit of the Holidays: Cyber-Activism

Recently, the following causes have come to our attention, and we think they are pretty damn cool. Please check them out, and if you think they are cool too, please come together and give them whatever support you can.

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ - Provides toys, books and video games to sick kids in children's hospitals on four continents

http://www.videogamevoters.org/ - A network of American voters trying to defend free speech and creativity in video games from intrusive US legislation and regulation.

http://www.xogiving.org/ - Provides laptop computers to children in developing nations, who otherwise have almost no access to education or means of self-expression.

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill

Myspace Diabocle

In our last blog entry, we mentioned our fairly new Myspace.com profile page. Well apparently, that was our jinx move of the weekend.

Yesterday morning, the Myspace profile for NinjaGirl Productions received and unusually high number (hundreds) of unsolicited friend invites. Likely related, at some point later in the day, the profile page was inexplicably deleted.

*POOF*

We have since emailed Myspace a few times on the matter, but are yet to get a reply. Now this, in and of itself, is strange and frustrating enough, but here's the really odd and annoying part:

Today when we checked the email address associated with our Myspace profile, it turns out we are still getting a significant number of friend invites well after the profile disappeared. Yup, that's right, we're still getting emails that say, "So-and-so would like to be added as one of your friends" even though nothing really exists at our Myspace URL, and we can't even log into Myspace anymore!

Honestly, we don't know or care how this is possible; but regardless of Myspace's chosen level of responsibility on the matter, the fact is we are getting numerous emails generated and sent to us by Myspace in regard to something that doesn't even exist anymore... so basically, for all intents and purposes, our profile got deleted for no apparent reason and Myspace is now inadvertently spamming the crap out of us... yay.

Myspace Page

Y'know, from network television to stand-up comedy to free games, it's getting so you can't be or promote anything online without, at least briefly, having a profile on myspace.com. So, a few weeks back it was decided we simply had to add some metaphoric pee to this trendy crowded swimming pool:

http://www.myspace.com/ninjagirlproductions

So, if you have a Myspace page and you promise not to spam us with Macy's card offers and webcam invites, feel free to add us sometime.