The Best Things Are Free

| insert credit | has been linking to some brilliant free games these days. There's EveryExtend and Dan! Da! Dan!, the latter a Super Star Soldier type and the former a genre-bender where you pilot kamikaze ships against a wall of scrolling puzzle blocks; Torus Trooper, a drive-down-a-tube-and-shoot game reminiscent of S.T.U.N. Runner; the English Translation of Planetarian, a haunting storytelling game whose sole stylistic equal in the West is Broken Saints. All of these games are free (the trial edition of Planetarian, anyway). All are by Japanese developers, and I know that some gamers will see that as extra coolness.

From The Ludologist we get web-based Lemmings and an AI to play it. Yes, that's Lemmings: one of the best games ever made.

Finally, Kotaku brings us both the world's greatest Nintendo DS ad and a very beautiful cosplay art exhibit that poses and juxtaposes cosplayers against all types of landscapes.

If you haven't seen any of these before, you're going to have a good day.