Via Metafilter: "How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends": However, 110+ years of advancement in the field of game design has produced games that are far superior, packing more strategy, nuance, and fun into a fraction of the play time. Monopoly is, by comparison, a long, boring, unpleasant slog. On the now-rare occasions that people ( Read more... )

Apparently there is no way to search on casual games for those which don't require fast-twitch? I would have thought that with the prevalence of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome and other RSIs (I'm more of a tendonitis girl, myself) this would be a thing ( Read more... )

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2048

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Two new mindblowing games:

A Slower Speed of Light

Incredipede (review with trailer)

The sequel to Fool's Errand is out.

Fool's Errand, which originally came out in 1987, has been called the greatest of all puzzle games. I don't know if it was the most difficult, but it was astonishingly coherent as an artistic work, and was as narratively satisfying as a good book. It was beautiful, maddening, haunting, seductive, thrilling and ( Read more... )

Good news: Aug 20, PopCap announces that a Plants vs. Zombies sequel will come out in 2013 ( Read more... )

alexx_kay posted shortly after my last paper went in about the game Plants vs. Zombies, and my first thought was... I can play games now! So I downloaded it and it's promptly become my latest addiction. Quite recommended. Unless, of course, you have something else you're supposed to be doing.

This is from fredrickegerman: Auditorium. I've been using it for brain breaks in thesising, and it's worked really well. Only I'm now out of levels ( Read more... )