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de Blob, known as Blob: Colorful na Kibou in Japan, is a 2008 platform-puzzle video game that allows players to explore and liberate an alien city from the evil, monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all color and fun from daily life. Playing as de Blob, gamers will embark on a quest to re-animate the fictional place of Chroma City (a parody of Manhattan), and bring character back to the oppressed, by splattering buildings, landmarks, and citizens with color.

StepMania is a free/open source rhythm video game for Windows, Mac, and Linux created by Chris Danford. It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's popular arcade and console video game series, Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a wide variety of rhythm-based game types.

Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab which was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs called Viewers enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore the world (known as the grid), meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another. Second Life is intended for people aged 13 and over, and as of 2011 has more than 20 million registered user accounts.

Worms: Armageddon is a turn-based strategy game from Team 17 and MicroProse. You command a squad of worms and must take out one or more opposing squads using an array of heavy weaponry ranging from bazookas and grenades to nukes and doomsday devices.

Dawinia is a strategy game from Introversion Software. The game takes place inside a computer network called Darwinia, which is inhabited by evolving digital life forms called Darwinians, and is infested with a virus that threatens to destroy the Darwinians and years of research along with them. You control various program-generated units to seek and destroy the virus.

Worms 4: Mayhem is a 3D artillery game in the Worms series developed by Team17. It is much like its 3D predecessor Worms 3D, except that players can customize their worm's appearance (hats/helmets, glasses, facial hair, gloves/hands) as well as create their own unique weapons in an added feature called "The Weapon Factory." The game also contains a shop where users can buy various items, using points won by completing story missions, activities or unlocking trophies.