Jacob Kaplan-Moss

The Ultimate Alphabet: hidden objects kick your ass - The Gameshelf

Holy crap this game sounds amazing, and hard as fuck. Purchased.

(games, ipad, wordgames)

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough on Vimeo

D&D on a Big Ass Table. Might be the geekiest — and awesomest — thing I've seen.

(bigasstable, cool, d&d, games, microsoft, surface, video)

Indie platformer extravaganza! | MetaFilter

To play later when I'm not at work!

(games, metafilter, via:waxy)

Peggle for Mac

If you'd like to not get any work done for the rest of 2007, by all means download this game (newly available for the Mac).

(games, mac)

http://www.gametap.com/home/play/gameDetails/000475950

GameTap now has Psychonauts for free (though only for the Windows player, grrr).

(games)

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)

This is why Valve is amazing.

(funny, games, gnomes, halflife2, videogames)

Games » Bloxorz

(flash, games)

Griddlers Net

Thousands upon thousands of Picross puzzles. Only playable through a shitty Java applet, unfortunatly, but still nice.

(games, picross, puzzles)

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security [Cigital]

Revealing the “psudo” in “psudorandom” (thanks for the quip, Matt)

(gambling, games, poker, programming, security)

NESVideos / Front Page

“These are movies of classic console games being played extraordinarily, using an emulator as a tool to overcome human limitations.” Sweet. such as skill and reflex.

(emulation, games, movie, speedruns, video, videogames)

The New Yorker: Fact

(essays, games, spore)

mario soup

(art, code, games, mario, nintendo, programming)

Macintosh Garden

“…a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games.”

(abandonware, emulation, games, mac, software)

ZeeME

ZeeME is a ZCode interpreter for the J2ME environment.

(games, j2me, mobile, zcode)

BoardGameGeek

*Huge* boardgaming site with ratings, reviews, images, and a marketplace for used board games. I sense my credit card slowly backing away in horror…

(boardgames, games)

www.DroidQuest.com

Java port of Robot Odyssey — I remember this game from *long* ago

(games)

EYEZMAZE___FLASH GAME PLANET

Some really cool, innovating, and complex flash games

(flash, games)

PySol for OS X

372 solitaire games, open source, packaged for OSX… who could ask for more?

(games, osx)

The New York Times > Magazine > Phenomenon: The Play's the Thing

Designing games where winning isn't everything (gasp!)

(games, nyt)