Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Cricket in the palm of your hand

11th March

2009

Cricket

Flash juggernaut Alisdair Mills, the world’s leading authority on unfinished iPhone games, is working on a cricket simulator. Judging by the video it looks like it’ll be tastier than a king-size Toblerone, but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for it to show up in the App Store…

Child labour is great!

10th March

2009

Playpump

Now this is a terribly good idea. A merry-go-round hooked up to a water pump, allowing children to pummel the obesity fairy in the face whilst sourcing clean drinking water. An initiative like this would be welcome in the UK, were it not for the inevitable complaints from health and safety paper-shufflers.

Battle scars

3rd March

2009

Darts Injury

Today is a very sad day. The Include dartboard is being retired. As you can see from the above photo, the 20 has been punished like a Somalian orphan, such is our level of skill on the oche.

We await Dave Citylink, bearer of our new anti-bounce-out beast board, with baited breath.

Beck is dead

6th February

2009

Playmobil

No, not that Beck. Hans Beck, the inventor of Playmobil, has died at the age of 79.

Despite inauspicious beginnings at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, the range went on to sell in excess of 2 billion figures. The original line-up – a knight, a construction worker and a Native American (best friends, presumably) – was soon joined by an expansive range of characters and accessories that have entertained millions of children across the globe.

Auf Wiedersehen Hans! We salute you.

The colour of play

7th January

2009

Colourfulds

Hey kids, can you tell what it is yet?

Google Lively

10th July

2008

Lively, currently in beta, is Google’s answer to Second Life. The downloadable application allows you to create rooms, decorate them to your liking, then make and invite friends over. Of course, you’re far better off actually doing these things in real life, but if you have poor personal hygiene and/or no friends you’re sure to find it very rewarding.

Googlelively

Don’t shake these drawings too vigorously

30th May

2008

Everyone has owned an Etch A Sketch at some point. If, like me, you managed to draw little more than a misshapen stick man, you’re sure to be impressed by the handiwork of “artists” etchasketchist and Etcha.

Muqtada Al-Sadr
Etch A Sketch Muqtada Al Sadr

Neil Diamond (yeah right….)
Etch A Sketch Neil Diamond

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Etch A Sketch Golden Gate Bridge

Elephant with an afro
Etch A Sketch Porn

Another breakaway spinoff

23rd April

2008

A great new promotional video/game for Nokia’s new N-Gage store.

Alternativa3D

18th April

2008

A group of rather talented russian flash developers have been working hard on version 5 of the Alernativa3D engine and have now reached their first milestone.

Check out the magic

Our kettle of cool gives this a rather fabulous 1.6 liters which when converted to cups of tea is 5 out of 5!

Swedish canine disc jockey

16th April

2008

Swedish – it’s all Greek to me, but this viral piece for Tele2 is outstanding.

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