This intro movie has a cool blend of 2D and 3D art that makes it very fun. I like the bg music too!

A childhood adventure lives again. Today at E3, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was announced. This game is a classic! And now remade in full... 2D. Hehe, no, the graphics look nice. I was a little disappointed to see the character movement. C'mon... modern technology must be utilized. The backgrounds were nice. I think it'll be fun. Ant, then we can beat the Sword Master over New Years again. :)

Spinergy is a fun word game that has easy and flexible rules but seems to provide good laughs. We've played it at a couple family gatherings and with friends

Basically, the rules are thus:
1. A 3 ring board is spun, lining up 3 words.
2. A situation card is chosen
3. Before the timer is out, write a composition that uses all 3 words in their exact form, fulfilling the situation on the card.
4. As everyone else writes, the person who is "it" writes down 5 other words that they suspect will be used.
5. Everyone reads their responses; if the 5 other words were used, the response is invalid; points awarded according to situation difficulty.

Read on to check out some of the situations you'll find...

Hey all ya happy people! As previously posted, there's a great new indie game out called World of Goo. It's fun, it's quirky, and a large part of that fun is created by the great soundtrack. And now, that soundtrack is available for download! And best of all, it's free!

Get it here.

I thoroughly enjoyed it while playing the game. Hopefully it's as good thru iTunes.

I was always a little concerned in elementary school that the library was called the "media center." It's like the grown-ups didn't know how to properly label the rooms in the school. The library was a fun place to go listen to our tall, eye-fluttering librarian expound on the many nuggets of wisdom to be found in children's books at the time, while we all sprawled leisurely around the Inca-inspired reading pit.

Now, years and many dollars later, I come to find out that there are other resources -- media, if you will -- that are found in the library. And they are found in abundance! Did you know that the public library will RENT you computer games?! Haha, this was a life-changing revelation for me about 2 weeks ago, when I discovered Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization sitting on the shelf -- this game that had been out for a matter of months was sitting there, waiting for me to take it home and enjoy it for the next 3 weeks. Well, I did just that. I was also sure not to leave the library without querying the digital dewey decimal system to compile a list of future conquests. I think I'll make it a point to visit the library, er media center, more often.

It's probably not hard to imagine that a certain computer game has recently caught my fancy. It's a fun, quirky, ultra-stylized casual gaming feast, and it's full of GOO!

I just ran across this the other day, and independently developed game on a few game review sites that's grabbing up editors choice and very high review scores. From the screenshots, I immediately thought of a fun online physics-based game Fantastic Contraption.

Hehe, try it out! There's a nice 30 Mb demo with 12 or so levels here.

This is about the best reason I've seen to get a touch screen computer. :)

Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.

Hehe, it makes me laugh. It looks fun.