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It was an ordinary day. I was checking a site to add as a link to another story on Gamertell, when an unusual icon at the Square Enix Members site caught my eye. “Game Zone is now open?” I wondered, though not aloud as I was still at work and didn’t want to attract interest. I clicked through to find four mini-games, all promoting Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon.

There are four flash games available, and all are pretty similar to the mini-games found in Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales, which was released on the DS a while back. There’s Chocobo’s Snowboard Glide, Chocobo Flight, Chocobo’s Balancing Act and Chocobo’s Classmate. All games use the mouse, and have happy perky Chocobo themes playing in the background.

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Those who enjoy browser games, but feel limited by their capabilities, may want to check out Seven Light’s newest browser game, The Continuum. The Continuum is billed as a sort of an online, collective TCG, strategic rpg, war game hybrid. The game is free to play, with the option to purchase a subscription or buy extra card packs.

When you begin the game, you are given some starter characters to begin playing. You can then create armies with them, upgrade their abilities, equip them with items and send them off into battle with other The Continuum players. 

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Facebook is home to many addictive, user created applications and games, and Perfect Warrior is one of them. Perfect Warrior is something of a text-based, massive multiplayer online game. Once players sign up, they can battle monsters, join alliances, equip items, strengthen weapons with runes, go on monster hunts and strive to become a legend.

Perfect Warrior requires quite a bit of dedication and time to succeed. Your character has three attributes - strength, constitution and dexterity. Defeating monsters earns you skill points which you can use to strengthen these attributes. The best way to succeed is to plot out what kind of character you want. You may want a strong and aggressive warrior who can take enemies out in one hit. Or perhaps a tank who can take repeated hits without falling is more your style. Of course a lightning fast opponent who can dodge attacks and deal frequent criticals is also a very viable option.

Click through for more information on creating a legend in Perfect Warrior…

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Fallen Empire: Legions, the Tribes-esque, first person action browser game has just entered the public beta. The GarageGames Studios game is only available through GarageGames Studio’s InstantAction, a browser game site also in its beta phase. Players can sign up for InstantAction (it’s free), and then play Fallen Empire: Legions anytime they want. (Be advised - you need Windows XP SP2 or Vista to play!)

Fallen Empire: Legions is a 3D browser game which allows players to play alone or with others in two available modes - Deathmatch and Capture the Flag. Once you decide what class you want your character to be (chaingun specialist, grenade specialist, gunner, rocket specialist, sniper and sniper specialist are all available) and what weapon to use (chaingun, grenade launcher, rocket launcher or sniper rifle), you can then choose what mode to play in and if you want play on teams or on your own.

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Eyezmaze has just released another Flash web-game. Sometimes I’m amazed by the productivity there. Anyways, SEEK ver.0 has just been released. It is described on the site as an easy word game, but it is more like a letter/number finding game. 

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Webkinz is becoming more and more like a mini-massive multiplayer online (MMO) game for kids. The latest addition to Webkinz, the Webkinz eStore proves it. A premium shop now exists for the popular children and casual gamer’s browser virtual pet. Players can visit the Webkinz eStore and purchase furniture and clothing for their characters - for a premium price.

You see, unlike most MMOs, the items in the Webkinz eStore are quite expensive. Ridiculously so. The rocket and picnic basket “Super Beds” both cost $9. Other costly items include a $8 pool, $7 waterfall or suit of armor or 2 $6 modular sofa packs. Players can purchase a train set, fridge or stove for $5.

The cheapest item is a $4 chair, but it may just be the most expensive item of all. Even though all transactions involve Ganz just emailing you a code for the items you’ve purchased after you give your Visa/Mastercard/Amex card information, there is a minimum order of $5. So if someone just wanted to buy the $4 chair, they couldn’t. They would have to either buy two chairs, or a chair and another item, to break the $5 barrier.

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Blockdot has decided to open up a new, virtual location. It has teamed up with Asahi Advertising and Fivestar Interactive to build the Blockdot gaming center in Second Life. People logged into the program/simulation/game can journey to Asahi Advertising’s G7 Island to visit Blockdot’s building.

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Here’s great news for Gamertell readers who own a Nintendo Wii. Titanstrike has organized a Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament with cash prizes over at SmashTournament.com. And Gamertell readers get an exclusive discount on the entry fee…

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As the scalding heat blows across the east coast, Xfire predicts cooler weather for June 2008 due to three events with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Meet Team Millenium, a broadcast of the Sunwell Raid Redux and the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris…

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Two industry old-timers have combined to launch Music Video Games & Trade (MVG), a music games website.

The website, which will cater to music fans and casual gamers, is the result of the joint efforts of David Warhol, president of video game studio Realtime Associates, Inc., and Vincent Bitetti, a video game publishing executive and former CEO of TDK Mediactive (bought by Take-Two in 2004)…

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