Angled Whiteboards

So these MIT kids ended up creating a wall-sized, whiteboard version of Dinosaur Comics.  Fun!

[via Stuart P. Bentley via email.]

Space is the place this week. Alpha Centauri, anyone? Laser Squad Nemesis? HOT stuff. I’d talk it up more, but dinah and I are JAMMED UP over here. Lots o’ progress in progress. We’ll try to at least get some pretty whiteboard behind-the-scenes stuff up in the next couple of days though.

Also this week: The Best of GameTap: Best of the 90s. Colon: another colon.

New games:

• Laser Squad Nemesis
• Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
• Space Empires III
• Space Empires IV

New on GameTap TV:

• GameTap News: Lady Croft’s Birthday
• GameTap Tracks: Mastodon
• Sealab 2021: Article 4
• Sam & Max: The Teapot Drone Scandal

It’s still Thursday, right? Cause we got some new games for you to play.

And sure, Freespace 2 is in there — but don’t miss this week’s The Best of GameTap: Best of the 70s and 80s. After all, the only other time I see Kaboom! and Strider in the same ring is when I hit up my personal playlists.

New games:

• Forgotten Worlds
• Freespace 2
• Space Interceptor: Project Freedom
• Space Invaders DX
• X2: The Threat

New on GameTap TV:

• Quick Hit: Mastodon
• GameTap News: Lord of the Rings Online
• Sealab 2021: Brainswitch

skrbl lets you create an online, interactive whiteboard with one click - and you don’t even have to register.

(Ours are the stand-and-draw-with-a-stinky-marker variety, angled though they are. Highly collaborative, however )

[Thanks to Slack3r78]

This week features a lot of games where you’re not driving on pavement (and one where you are). Oh man, I just realized that Tough Trucks has a Cooter cameo? That I will HAVE to play. This (from the Cooter Davenport wikipedia entry) still cracks me up:

During the 1979-1980 [The Dukes of Hazzard] season, Ben Jones boycotted the show due to a dispute with the producers: Jones felt the character should have a beard and the producers insisted that he be clean-shaven. As a result, Jones left the show for several episodes and it was explained in the series that Cooter was out of town.

Once you’ve finished your out-of-town offroad adventures, make sure you hit this week’s facet of our month-long The Best of GameTap extravaganza: Award Winners. When you see them all laid out in a single GameTap Picks ring like that, it’s pretty impressive.

New Games:

• 1nsane
• Offroad Redneck Racing
• Street Legal: Redline Racing
• Tough Trucks

New on GameTap TV:

• GameTap News: Area 51
• Sam & Max: War Games
• Sam & Max: The Final Episode
• Sealab 2021: Fusebox