games
50th Anniversary of the First Video Game
blog // Lindsay Stewart
I promise my review of Viva Pinata 2 is forthcoming. The good news is, I've been playing it a ton, the bad news, it's hard to tear me away long enough to write about it. I almost have the Jeli...
Consoles I Have Known: Article Series
blog // Lindsay Stewart
Starting with Atari and ending up at the PS3 and it's place in the recent console wars, Todd Levine's Consoles I Have Known article series for The Morning News is one of the funniest things I have read in awhile.
Countdown to Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
blog // Lindsay Stewart
One of my favourite games in the last few years is Viva Piñata. A sandbox game for kids that became a cult hit, I have been known to resort to hyperbole, calling Viva Piñata the best game ever.
Employment IQ Test/Game Inspired by Lost?
blog // Mark Yuasa
Found this devious little Flash game/IQ test while browsing the new del.icio.us (now delicious.com) last night.
The set-up is just like those IQ test/mensa puzzles randomly advertised on blogs. Apparently in Japan (I think that writing is Chinese actually), some companies have handed this out as a job placement test. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather play this cute little Flash game than fill out one of those massive Myers-Briggs tests.
Free-To-Play MMO Games, You Get What You Pay For?
blog // Mark Yuasa
I've been keeping an eye on the Free-to-Play MMORPG scene for a while now.
Nothing too serious, just signing up for some accounts and dabbling. Now the Korean gangsters have my info! Just a little Simpsons reference there... I have nothing against Korean gangsters.
Arguably the most famous and successful of this breed* is the 2005 NCSoft release Guild Wars, which is still going strong, several stand-alone expansions later. I wont touch on SecondLife just yet, since SL isn't so much of a game as it is an online interaction space.
I haven't been completely smitten by any of the Free-to-play MMO games so far. Here are some, perhaps biased reasons:

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