"Action game" is a dangerously general term. Visions of smoking shotgun barrels and high-kicking Japanese men tend to accompany its usage, but realistically the phrase can be applied to anything even slightly pulse-quickening - getting up in the morning, jogging on the spot or bouncing a filofax off a passing camel's bottom.

The upshot of this is that our tastefully named Hot Manly Action section looks quite bloated, having sucked up all the odds and ends we can't quite fit into other genres. A dissatisfactory state of affairs, you must agree, and one we intend to rectify shortly.

In the meantime, here are 20 free browser beauties we've slapped with the label over the past few months. Don't worry, none of them feature camel's bottoms.