Konoko in the snow

Proving that Shockwave is capable of doing more than creating annoying "interactive" ad banners and bandwidth-sapping style-over-substance websites, Take 2 have commissioned a fun little web-game from Liquid Idea animations featuring Konoko, the heroine of third person beat 'em up "Oni". If you have already exhausted the Oni demo that was released last week and can't wait for more, this could be just the fix you need to tide you over until the game's European launch in March. And given that Christmas this year is more likely to be grey and murky than white (here in the UK at least), it may be the only chance you get to do some serious snowballing this festive season...