Game Thoughts has released WordWars! WordWars is a game written in VB with transparency, alpha blending, skinning, and more. Play a scrabble-like game and use over 50 special words to try to kill your opponent. They're all secret of course, so you'll have to find them during the course of place.
Or, log into the Brainstorm server to play against other people online for free. The Brainstorm server was written with C/C++, showing that a networked TCP/IP game with a VB client is not only possible, but feasible. Come check out WordWars, and download the free demo today.