While Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony all offer owners of their respective consoles downloadable content via specific online services, unfettered web access means PS3 and Wii users can now experience the millions of user-generated games floating around the Internet—good or bad.

Wiicade offers Wii users dozens of browser-based titles built using Adobe’s Flash technology. The games are organized in multiple categories including Action, Shooter, and Puzzle. You can play the games on your PC, too, but beware: some are insanely addictive. In Hot Air (pictured), the objective is to blow a balloon around the screen to pick up items and make it to the exit whilst avoiding traps and spike-lined walls.

offers Wii users dozens of browser-based titles built using Adobe’s Flash technology. The games are organized in multiple categories including Action, Shooter, and Puzzle. You can play the games on your PC, too, but beware: some are insanely addictive. In Hot Air (pictured), the objective is to blow a balloon around the screen to pick up items and make it to the exit whilst avoiding traps and spike-lined walls.

“Open architecture encourages no limit to creativity,” said game industry analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities. The lack of a web browser on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console doesn’t necessarily hinder that device, either. Millions pay subscription fees for access to the Xbox Live online service, which offers game, music, television, and movie downloads. “The pros for a closed model… you can monetize anything coming through the gate,” Mr. Pachter said.

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