Yesterday, I talked about one designer who advocates play in public, but today I'd like to focus on play at home. At my house, there's always a deck of cards and a Scrabble board on hand, if not littering my coffee table, and one shouldn't be surprised to find trails of paper penciled with hangman games throughout my home. And there's always play going on when my dog, Ozzie, is in the room (or the backyard).
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The release of highly anticipated video games usually conjures up thoughts of long lines, depressing sold-out signs on store fronts, and waiting – oh painful waiting – those extra few days for your preorder to arrive while all your pals brag about how they've already made it to the final level. Booo.
Thankfully, Amazon has come to rescue you from your game-day troubles with its Release-Date Delivery service.
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There are some games I get excited about, and then there are the games that I cannot live without. Remember how unbearable the lead up was to Super Mario Galaxy was. Yeah, it's like that over the next few months for me.
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That's right: Playing our überaddictive Which Pet Is Cuter. game means you can win prizes . .
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If there's a website with a game that can suck me in for more than five minutes, I know I've found a winner — and with youCharades, I had difficulty pulling myself away. youCharades is just like classic charades, only you can play alone, with your computer screen.
Of course, you're not really alone — dozens of users are constantly uploading new videos of a charades challenge for everyone else, and you can too.
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With all the ways I could keep myself occupied on the train to and from work – like playing games on my DS, my iPhone, and my PSP – I guess I just plain forgot that I had games on my iPod.
I found myself stuck on the train the other morning after just realizing that I forgot not only my DS, but my iPhone too. It was like I was missing an arm I tell you.
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Remember P.E.. Playing games in the middle of the school day was always so much fun. The options were endless but Dodgeball, Floor Hockey, Red Rover, Run Alligator Run, and Capture the Flag topped my list of favorites.
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If three stories make a trend, I guess six makes an obsession: it's the all Scrabble news day, here's the big mixed bag (S-O-R-R-Y) of stories:
Do you play Scrabulous on Facebook. Well, the version that got everybody hooked is getting the creators sued. Hasbro owns the rights to the game and the Calcutta-based creators of Scrabulous are in court for copyright infringement.
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Since we seem to be taking it back to the old school this week, I might as well toss in another favorite of mine besides all the mixed tapes and pagers and boomboxes — arcade games. You remember those, yeah.
If I wasn't spending hours in my towns' arcade (and dropping what seemed like hundreds in quarters) every week, then I was either deathly ill or my parents had dragged me along on a family vacation.
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