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‘Cube Slam’ Chrome Experiment Channels Old-School Gaming

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‘Cube Slam’ Chrome Experiment Channels Old-School Gaming

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Google’s Chrome Experiments have a tendency to bring out the kid in all of us, and its newest game is no exception.

Cube Slam(Opens in a new window) lets users play against friends face to face (or an animated bear, if no one’s around), no matter where they are. All you need is an Internet connection, a webcam, and one free hand.

The game is especially nostalgic for Google Creative Lab employee Clem Wright, who reminisced about his childhood in a Chrome blog post(Opens in a new window).

“My friends and I used to play video games all the time, squashed together on the couch, engaged in structured intellectual discourse about exactly how badly we were going to destroy each other,” Wright wrote. “Now that we live spread out around the world, it’s a bit harder to dance in each other’s faces and yell ‘booyah!’ every time we win a game.”

With Cube Slam, Wright can connect with friends anywhere in the world via the game’s WebRTC technology for some friendly competition.

The latest among Google’s Chrome Experiment lineup, Cube Slam is a sort of updated version of Pong, pitting you against friends and family, or Bob the Bear, in an effort to, well, slam the cube into your opponent’s screen three times, until the screen explodes.

Each level comes with new shields, heart-pounding obstacles, and a gravity-field change; keep scoring, and you can unlock power-ups like fireballs, lasers, multi-balls, mirrored controls, bulletproof shields, fog, ghost balls, time bombs, resized paddles, extra lives, and death balls. (Though Wright suggests steering clear of the death balls.)

Cube Slam is available wherever you have an Internet connection; Chrome users can also download the plug-in app(Opens in a new window) to play against Bob even while offline.

Check out the video below to watch Bob the Bear play his feathered friend, Bill, in a game of Cube Slam.

Most recently, Google went old-school with two new Chrome Experiment games, Roll It (skeeball) and Racer (slot-car racing), which turned any phone, tablet, desktop, or laptop into a full-screen gaming experience. The tech giant has also released the topsy-turvy World Wide Maze, as well as a promotion for the recent Oz The Great and Powerful film, and the 100,000 Stars project.

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