Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Flash games offered in MySpace

Have you ever tried any free flash game in the internet? If so, which one is your favourite site? After reading the article "MySpace Quietly Launches Games Site" by Duncan Riley in Techcrunch, I am wondering if people would choose MySpace as their one of the favourite game site.

As Duncan states in the article's title, MySpace posts some free flash games quietly. I did not know nothing about MySpace Games due to none promotion or advertisement. Then, I click into
http://games.mypsace.com/ to take a look what kind of games they have. Sometimes I would like to spend a hour in playing flash game online to relax. Then, due to my curiousity, I select the game "Micro Olympics," which is labelled as "Top Game," in order to see how the game is. However, I was totally disappointed because the outlook and the content are really simple and not attractive. I would say people can play this kind of game without using their brains. Comparing with my favourite game site, Crazymonkeygames, which provides plenty high-quality flash games, MySpace Games is absolutely in behind and unsatisfied.

MySpace Games also offers multiplayers games such as Pool, Chess, Poker. Players have to login in their MySpace account before entering the game rooms. Basically, it is just like Yahoo Games and Sina Games. However, since MySpace Games is still unpopular, there were very few players in the game rooms. The number of players is shown in the front page. Most of the number of players shown are zero. Therefore, comparing to other flash game sites, MySpace Games is not very competitive.


I believe more features and elements should be input in MySpace Games. It is not only to compete with other popular flash game sites, but also is to increase the market share of flash games in order to make more money.

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