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It’s been some time since our last top 5 and in the meanwhile, there was definitely no shortage of new games. Especially the fans of the tower defense games have had a good year with the release of many highly anticipated titles. Our top 5 includes both new older games that still deserve the attention and praise for their contributions to the tower defense genre.

However, not all of them can make it into our list and that’s why we selected the five very best tower defense games available today. True fans have probably finished all of them already and if you missed any of them, be sure to catch up! We’ll be closely following the developers of these games for updates on possible sequels and keep you informed so stay tuned!

1. Bubble Tanks Tower Defense
Enjoy a variety of maps in the most complete and accesible tower defense game of them all. Continuing in the line of Desktop Tower Defense, this game brings together all the elements that make a good tower defense game in perfect harmony. Whether you’re new to the genre or looking for a hardcore challenge, you’ll find it here!

Click here to play Bubble Tanks Tower Defense

2. Bloons Tower Defense 4
Released 419 days after the previous installment of the series, but it was worth the wait. This game met all its expectations by introducing new types of bloons, towers and maps while maintaining its cartoony looks and feel. Don’t be fooled its cute factor though, the game offers quite a challenge for even experienced players!

Click here to play Bloons Tower Defense 4

3. Gemcraft Chapter Zero: Gem of Eternity
This game brought the already famous Gemcraft series to an even higher standard. With more maps and several game modes the lifespan of this game is longer than ever before, if you can make it through the storymode that is. Accompanied by the highest quality artwork and sound, this game will surely last another year!

Click here to play Gemcraft Chapter Zero: Gem of Eternity

4. Desktop Tower Defense Pro
You almost can’t mention tower defense without thinking of the original Desktop Tower Defense. This game made this genre popular and has been enjoyed by tens of millions of players. This list wouldn’t be complete without paying tribute to the latest version of this game, adding new game modes to extend its replay value!

Click here to play Desktop Tower Defense Pro

5. Protector III
The second tower defense title that can’t be excluded from this list. The original Protector unleashed a massive hype and got millions of players hooked to tower defense. This third installment of the series is the best version to date, allowing players to specialize their units to a great extent while playing through the various maps!

Click here to play Protector III

It’s time to travel even further down the rabbit hole in Alice is Dead Episode 2. Alice is Dead takes the player to wonderland where not everything is like you would expect it to be. Welcome to a dark, strange and vile world filled with horrific creatures and blood trails. Your first encounter is with the corpse of Alice, from which you depart to find out what happened.

Things are getting more and more bizarre in episode 2 as you find yourself locked up in prison. Try to escape as you gather clues of what happened and more importantly, what role you played. The artwork is again of the highest quality endulging the player in a morbid atmosphere as you gather items en clues in this point ‘n’ click adventure. The episodes are fairly short in length but the storytelling is splendid and you it might take quite some time to figure out some of the puzzles, they’re tough!

Make sure to have played through episode one first or you’ll be completely lost. If you’re stuck in of the two episodes, check out the video walkthroughs!

Click here to play Alice is Dead Episode 1 at Kongregate
Click here to play Alice is Dead Episode 2 at Kongregate

Walkthrough of Alice is Dead Episode 1:


Walkthrough of Alice is Dead Episode 2:

The yearly Flash Gaming Summit is back! In just over a month the event opens its doors in San Francisco. This years conference will bring together leaders in the flash game space to share industry insights and strategies on successful game design, development and monetization.

The advisory board consists of the biggest names in the industry such as Ben Garney from PushButton Labs, Danielle Deibler from Adobe, David Scott from Casual Collective, Matthew Annal from Nitrome, Jim Greer from Kongregate and Tom Fulp from NewGrounds.

Traditionally the Mochis Award Show will award the best flash games in the industry as chosen by the players. Nominations are open for any flash game created in 2009, and can fall into eleven different categories. Haven’t voted for your favourite games yet? Vote now!

The event is intended for game developers, flash artists, entrepreneurs, marketers, advertisers interested in games, flash portal and gaming website owners, business development and venture capitalists, technologists and representatives from companies in the gaming and social media space.

We’ll keep you updated!

Click here to visit the website of the Flash Gaming Summit 2010

Better late than never we cover one of the most popular tower defense games over the last couple of months. We’ve been offline during the original release back in December last year, but this is definitely one of those epic titles that deserves all the attention.

Bubble Tanks Tower Defense takes the popular series into a new genre and beyond! The game features seven enemy types, over eleven unique tower paths, tower merging allowing for mega-towers and mega-mega towers which can combine a total of sixteen towers! Additionally, players can prepare for 52 whopping game modes with which Hero Interactive ensures players will have plenty to keep themselves busy until the release of Bubble Tanks Arenas.

With almost 2.5 million gameplays on Armor Games alone and a rating of 9.1 it is still one of the hottest games around. Be sure to have tried it and be ready to get addicted to some extent!

Click here to play Bubble Tanks Tower Defense at Armor Games

Last summer developer Undefined broke the silence by releasing My Pet Protector, a role-playing game where players must try to raise a hero. Since its release it has been quiet again and not much is known about the status of their current projects.

Undefined is known for their famous Protector series which boosted the popularity of tower defense games and gave them a new dimension by introducing specialization upgrades. It is currently unknown whether they’re working on a new installment of Protector.

However, this week all of a sudden an updated version of My Pet Protector has been released named Generation II. The game features some gameplay improvements and bug fixes which make the game alot more enjoyable for fans of the genre. It’s hardly comparable to other games except a distant similarity to the old sim girl series. The game is split up into days and each day you can use your hours to train skills, work or go hunting. Choose your character’s path wisely as you progress through increasingly difficult dungeons and encounter powerful monsters. Play and see for yourself!

Click here to play My Pet Protector Generation II at Kongregate

Sometimes using an existing formula is the key to success. Developer Cave of Wonders did just that and their new game Civilizations Wars is top-ranked on various gamesites. In fact, they’ve combined real-time strategy with role-playing elements resulting in an interesting and involving game. The artwork lifts the whole to another level making it a welcome addition to the list of quality flash games.

Civilizations Wars is a fast paced real-time strategy/role-playing game with deep tactic capabilities and amazing graphics in an unique style. Choose one of three races and lead your people towards the legendary fallen star to find the secret force, whatever that may mean. There are three races with each 33 levels to complete, giving the player plenty to do before running out of content.

The aim is to capture all the buildings on any given map. In order to achieve this your buildings produce units to do the fighting and you’ve got a whole range of magical skills to aid you in battle. Furthermore, as you complete maps you’ll level up giving you the opportunity to raise skills which improve your combat capabilities. Adding everything up leaves us with an action packed game which will surely appeal to many. Make sure to find out for yourself!

Click here to play Civilizations Wars at Kongregate

Inevitably we missed some releases as we’ve been offline for a while. One of them is Bloons Tower Defense 4 by developer Ninja Kiwi, which has been in development for a whooping 419 days. Since its release, the game has been enjoyed by millions of players and received exremely high ratings.

Ninja Kiwi has not only stretched out the whole scope of the game with more bloons, towers and maps, but in doing so they’ve been able to stretch out the difficulty of the game. The easiest mode is far easier than it was the case in Bloons Tower Defense 3. The hardest levels are truly insanely difficult this time. With this they hope to bring you all a much longer playing experience and something that people will enjoy playing for at least the coming twelve months.

There’s no word yet on a fifth game and don’t expect to see it arrive this year. For all of us who haven’t played this one yet, you’re missing out!

Click here to play Bloons Tower Defense 4 at Kongregate

Urbansquall has released the third and final chapter of their Battalion series. Battalion: Vengeance is released fairly shortly after Ghosts considering the wait between the first and second game. Players will feel familiar with the game mechanics and the story continues where it had left off in the previous installment of the series.

Battalion: Vengeance begins as the Dragoons have come home to lead the final strikes on the Akadian Empire. In this turn-based strategy game, you’ll have the chance to take command of the noble Dragoons as they fight to regain their homeland. Control the Jammer Truck, Lancer Tank and Vulture Drone in your quest to defeat Durand and his Akadian cronies once and for all.

New players are recommended to try the Bootcamp first to master the game before unleashing havoc in the single player campaing.

Click here to play Battalion: Vengeance at Kongregate

The developers at Hero Interactive must have their hands full with several anticipated titles in development. Earlier today we posted the new Q&A they released about Bubble Tanks Arenas. It almost seems to overshadow their other projects, but behind the scenes a new StormWinds game is being forged: StormWinds: The Mary Reed Chronicles.

It will be a hunt and click adventure game comparable to the highly rated The Several Journeys of Reemus by developer Zeebarf. You’ll follow the heroine Mary Reed and her steampunk robot sidekick Rusty as they begin their sky piracy career by hijacking a massive Demo airship and rescuing Aglorian captives. Taking place four years after the events of StormWinds: The Lost Campaigns, the game will continue the story and should include a number of familiar elements for fans of the series.

StormWinds: The Mary Reed Chronicles is set to be released soon after Bubble Tanks Arenas somewhere this year.

Time for an update on Fancy Pants World 3. Borne Games has been releasing information sporadically over the last few months and from what they’ve shown it’s obvious that it will be better looking than ever before. Players familiar with the previous Fancy Pants Adventures might not see the difference at first but there are plenty of new features to be mentioned.

The previous Fancy Pants Adventure has been played millions of times all over the world and has aquired somewhat of a cult status. Fans of the series have been eagerly waiting for bits of information about World 3 and hopefully we’ll be receiving more updates over the coming months.

The screenshot shows Rural Squiglleville and according to Borne Games, they’re still experimenting with the graphical style of World 3. One of their main aims is to maintain the game’s handdrwan looks while refining the style and art. Backgrounds will no longer be single layers, instead there will be five independently scrolling backgrounds giving the player an impression of debt. There is no word yet on a release date and it appears that the game is still in its early stages of development. Scroll down for a gamplay footage showing one of the new features: Swimming.