Video: Cluster Lander - Candystand Release Trailer

Love combat flying games, open-world missions and competing against your friends? You'll want to keep an eye on Cluster Lander, a brand-new exclusive game coming to Candystand in just a few weeks. 

You'll be in control of a small cluster lander ship, tasked with exploring the rock cluster in each level to find the coordinates of the next cluster. Along the way, you'll have to watch out for enemies, bombs and lasers -- luckily you'll have some munitions of your own to help! 

Ghost runs from each level can be saved and replayed; they can be used as a guide to help you improve your times, or shared with friends (via copy/paste code) so you can rub your sweet run times in their faces. 

The just-released trailer above shows off some of the new weapons and abilities making it into the final game, including shields and tracking missiles.  

Cluster Lander will be, ahem, landing on Candystand soon! We'll be posting more content leading up to the game's release.

Candystand is Now Social!

We here at Candystand have been cooking up a major update that just went live today. Simply put, the site now works with Facebook! What that means is that you can now connect your Facebook account with Candystand and seamlessly play and compete with all your Facebook friends. We've added a whole bunch of new features that adds a whole new level of fun and competition to your favorite games. Here is just some of what you can now do on Candystand with Facebook Connect:

• Once you connect your Candystand and Facebook accounts, logging into Candystand will be easier than ever. You will be logged in automatically or it it takes just one click.
• You can now see all your Facebook friends who are also on Candystand.
• Check out friend's profiles and compare the games you play and high scores.
• See what trophies your friends have earned and compare your world rankings.
• Under every game you will immediately see which of your friends are playing that same game and who has the best score.
• Beat your friend's high scores and they'll know about it. YES!!
• Your Candystand Avatar can now use your Facebook profile picture.

OK, here's the big disclaimer: You may experience some minor bugs as we smooth the kinks out for this massive integration. We don't expect any of this to affect your games, or the speed of the site, so don't worry about that. We've been testing this new feature, but now that it's open to our millions of fans, we suspect we'll need a little time to find and resolve any unexpected issues. If you find any weirdness or bugs , please trust that we are on it and it will be fixed as soon as possible. Think of this update as marrying Candystand with Facebook but they never really lived together before. There is an adjustment period and there may be some fighting :)

If anyone finds problems they'd like to share with us please visit our troubleshooting forum on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=5542749089&topic=10324

Thank you to all our fans and enjoy this latest enhancement to the Candystand.com. If you want to try this now, just go to Candystand.com and click on the "Connect with Facebook" button on the top right of the site.

Right on the game page you can see which of your friends are also playing that game. Best of all, you can see who has more points and the highest ranking.

"Oh wow, look at my friends also on Candystand!"

Electric Box Now Available for iPhone!

The goal of Candystand.com's popular puzzler is simple: there is a power source, and there is a destination that lacks power. Use the tools in the game to get the power from the source to the destination.

Easy, right?

Well... what if the tools include tea kettles, laser beams, refrigerators, light bulbs, and more? Sounding less easy? What if I told you there were 50 (FIFTY!) levels to puzzle your way through?

While the mechanics are so simple that you can pick the game up and start playing right away, but the game is deep enough to stay challenging for hours. And if you're already familiar with the online version, you'll be glad to know that this version has dozens of levels you've never seen before.

This is one of the most original and highly-praised puzzlers ever launched online, and its iPhone debut doesn't disappoint at all. It's clean, clear, and fun, and it's so smooth you'll think Electric Box was designed for the phone in the first place. For the train, for a waiting room, for anytime where you want to stretch your mind and solve uniquely visual and interactive puzzles, this is the game for you. And your friends. And everyone else. It's awesome.

Nice Review for Electric Box by GameZebo

"More than once during the course of gameplay I found myself muttering out loud about the puzzles I was trying to tackle: "If I have the robot move the mirror then I can turn the power on for the fan, but then I can't have the kettle powered which I need to keep the light bulb on, so maybe I should..." It's utterly confounding sometimes, but that only adds to how good it feels to get a puzzle right. There's a sense of accomplishment for every puzzle inElectric Boxthat ranges from smug to ecstatic, and is often followed by a sense of wonder at the designers of such ingenious puzzles."

Read the whole review here http://gamezebo.com/features/web-games/electric-box

Flip Mino Winner Puts Camera to Good Use

This is a very nice thank you note from the winner of our Flip Mino Facebook and Twitter drive.

"“Let me tell you real quick what this is going to used for...www.klf.org Knoxville Leadership Foundation runs a program called Operation Backyard where we use middle and high school students to do minor home repairs in the inner city of Knoxville. We are going to film them, do interviews and post them to our site and YouTube. It is truly a blessing to have this! Thank you!”

You are welcome and kudos to you for doing such great work for your community.