Convergence is a free game about life. You play through three stages of someone's life, making choices for them, and will see how that effects their success and happiness.

Will you compete with your brother and do as your mother says as a baby? How will you balance your job and your girlfriend? With charming 8-but graphics, Convergence is a gentle game with multiple endings that depend on the choices you make in the first stages.

This is an very unusual game, but it's an interesting experience. Check it out at Kongregate, and make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed.

[via indiegames.com]

EA continue their march into browser-based online gaming with their latest effort, Battlefield Play4Free.

It's Windows only and like Battlefield Heroes uses a browser add-on to launch the game. Battlefield Play4Free is a pretty traditional FPS. It's got a modern setting and all the basics that make the Battlefield series what it is. We played the closed Beta recently, and as I said in my review, found it to be pretty fun and certainly impressive for a free game!

There are paid, premium aspects to Battlefield Play4Free, but you can have a perfectly good time without paying a thing. While it looks a bit last-generation graphically, it's good enough and is great fun to play, especially if you persevere and learn to use the vehicles well.  If you thought Battlefield Heroes' cartoon style wasn't serious enough, Play4free could be the free game you're looking for.

Cactus McCoy is a sideways scrolling beat 'em up, with a western theme and lots of weapons! This is a Flash based cartoon game with a silly story - you play McCoy, who finds a mysterious stone that turns you into a cactus-hero! Strangely, Cactus McCoy doesn't seem to have any super powers beyond being green and spiky, but that doesn't spoil what is a well made if simplistic beat 'em up.

Although there is just one attack button, the range of weapons make it all quite enjoyable. Taking out baddies with a branch is kind of funny, and there's even a water pistol lying around! Overall, Cactus McCoy is a great little arcade timewaster to play in your browser. Head over to Kongregate and check it out.

Fotonica is a visceral 3D arcade game, that sees you running at incredible speeds over vector graphic landscapes. It's on-rails, so you only control your speed and jumping. The aim is to keep going as long as you can without falling off the track.

Despite really simple controls, the speed and difficulty will keep you coming back. There are four tracks and an endless mode for high score chasing. Each track has multiple 'routes' of high or low platforms, and there are dots to collect. Reach the highest speed and you'll enter a psychedelic gold mode, where your breathing is amplified and the game becomes almost dreamlike. Sometimes gold mode can be distracting and make you miss a jump, and collecting dots momentarily obscures your vision, but the adrenalin rush of the game will keep you motivated.

Play Fotonica here. Note that it requires the Unity plugin.

Last year I wrote about the excellent Corporate Climber and now we have Nano Ninja, which takes the same one-button idea to create another really fun game. You have to reach the top of a building, going floor by floor and avoiding the obstacles on each one. The one-button control does different things depending on the level. On one level, the button might make you dash, and on another, jump or even pause. The biggest difference with Nano Ninja is that it's a bit easier and shorter than Corporate Climber. However, that's not a disadvantage, as it adds a ghost mode so you can race previous selves to complete the game. Nano Ninja, in time-honored tradition, is avenging his master, and you'll need some quick thinking and accurate tapping to make sure he succeeds.

Play Nano Ninja at Newgrounds, requires Flash.