Angled Whiteboards

This “game” features some of the worst collision detection I’ve ever seen.

Games featuring Earthworm James are back in the service for all of our sacred goldmembers. (Back to Outpost Kaloki for me, though… almost done with the main campaign.)

New [and returning] Gold games:

Brand New’s got an entertaining take on last week’s Google favicon change. That new lowercase g itches my eyes whenever I see lounging about in one of my tabs.

(And I’m still taken with dinah’s favicon on our own little AW here…)

Yesterday’s Wednesday WTF kick-off was another installment of ROM Raiders. This time, we’re tearing through The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions. And I have to say that this particular ROM Raiders has successfully done it’s job on ME. I’ve always meant to try the game out, but watching these guys on their justin.tv webcam setup totally sucked me in. Now I’m torn between the weird fascination of watching folks across the office playing a game on a live stream (and popping my green-shirted self in the mix) — and not spoiling myself for my now inevitable playthrough. Make sure you check it out.

New Gold games:

• Astro Fury
• Cradle of Rome

New free game:

• Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

After never pulling the trigger on XBLA, I’ve been completely sucked into Outpost Kaloki from the other week. Having two machines on my desk has never been more dangerous — I keep thinking I can just let it run over on the other system while I work on this one. And then I find myself spending way too much time trying to generate power to build more lemonade stands to fund my power stations to build more lemonade stands…

New Gold games:

• Ducati World Championship
• Tortuga: Pirates of the New World

New free game:

• Brian Lara Cricket

I can’t understand.