If you can't think of anything new, just turn up the production values, throw a bit of blood around and make everybody take their shirts off. Worked for 300, and it works for Hippolyta.

Hippolyta is an on-rails action game in which you, a fugitive Amazonian princess, air your dislike for Greek civilization and clothes by running down a lot of Hoplites. Hit W to jump over obstacles, S to duck under branches, A to shield yourself from arrows and space bar to spear pugnacious pedestrians.

Watch out, conscientious parents. That's her birthday suit she's wearing. Best pack little Johnny off to bed first.

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Blast RPG has all the hallmarks of a Nitrome title - which, by strange coincidence, it is: old concept, new twist. Let's not forget those awesome cartoon graphics either.

The old concept? Well, it's just a distance game, innit. Point and click at the optimum moment to launch your knight into the air, then hold-click to keep him there for as long as possible.

The new twist? Well, any creatures the knight collides with mid-flight will latch onto him and start beating him up. He'll retaliate, of course, thwacking them with a ferocity determined by his stats. If our hero emerges victorious, he'll get a boost. If not, he'll get dead.

Between flights, you can raise the little chap's strength, health and so forth and buy him new kit. Try Mega Drill for something with its feet on the ground.

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Quiet tropical location? Charming ethnic decor? Bizarre mood music? More anonymous keys than you can shake a stick at? Sticks?

Sure, sign us up. When's the first installment due?

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A rolling ball puzzler from the creator of the Civiballs games, Jolls is - unsurprisingly - quite like the Civiballs games. The difference is that rather than trying to roll the balls into amphoras, you must roll big ones into bubble-bound smaller ones of the same colour.

Point and click to put a ball in play. There are power-up icons to reverse gravity, swell your balls to sumo wrestling dimensions and such. Jolly, jolly good.

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There's a certain element of wishful thinking at work in Agame's time management sim The Arcade Hall. People are too... clean. Nobody appears to be dangerously overweight, or vitamin-D deficient. And we're fairly sure some of the clientele are women.

But then, maybe we're just behind the times. Given modern gaming's massively mainstream status, today's arcades are probably a lot more wholesome than the pongy boys' clubs of yore. Just as well, really, or you wouldn't want to manage one.

Drag customers onto arcade machines as per the little thought bubble up top. Be sure to clean and maintain them (the machines, that is), or your revenues will take a hit.

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Addicting Games has just published The Stupid Test 5. The Flytrap team aren't stupid, which is why we avoided all contact with or mention of the other four Stupid Tests. So why play and blog this one? Well, there are two reasons:

(1) Five is a lucky number, which it isn't really.
(2) We had a dream in which Gerard Butler's sixpack told us to.

If the above makes some kind of sense, you definitely need to take the test. Alternatively, beat MENSA at their own game.

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