Angled Whiteboards

What makes you try any given game? For me to give Peggle a shot, it took two reviews. This negative-ish one by peterb, and this positive-ish one by GameTap’s own GamingRed.

Needless to say, I’m fairly hooked. And it really is a classic, addiction-level hook in that if I leave my computer (with Peggle still open but hidden behind a sea of windows) and then come back to it later, I feel slightly sick that the game is still sitting there. So I go to close it, figure I’ll give one more level a shot, and emerge a few hours later.

I can relate to peterb’s criticism that the game gives you little actual control — but I would argue that it’s the Vegas-perfected business of giving the illusion of control that makes this game so successful. That and the hilariously glorious level-ending slo-mo explosions of rainbows and candy. It’s like you hit the jackpot every time!

I don’t know how I didn’t catch the similarities back in January.

Week two of a regular GameTap event - Monday Leaderboard Challenges.

This week, Zoo Keeper is the game to play. This one’s an office favorite!

Visit the forum thread.
Read the official announcement (and read about last week’s winners).

Announcing the first of a regular GameTap event - Monday Leaderboard Challenges! We’ll choose a different leaderboard game every week and the 10 people who have the best scores at midnight on Monday (that’s eastern time) will win a prize. Winners will be posted in the GameTap forums on Thursday.

This week, Bubble Bobble is the game to play.

Do you have what it takes? Post those scores!
Read the official announcement.

Neat little audio quizzamagame over at pbs.org. See if you can beat xamount’s 17 out of 18!

Congrats to Xbox Live Arcade. They hit 100 games today!

[Related Playlist: 12000 points on XBLA]