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Games: Fallout 3 Mod - Wasteland Dancin’ (Umpa)

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Great F3 animation created with the Umpa Animation MOD.

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The Time Machine: An Interactive YouTube Adventure

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The first interactive video game created with YouTube’s new Annotation feature.

At the end of each episode viewers can take a decision and are branched to different follow up videos. The plot is three friends traveling with a time machine (yes we know). So far there are 9 videos online.

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Time Waster: Whiteboard PONG

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If you have too much time in the office on your way to redundancy here’s one potential possibility to pay yourself the bonus you definitely earned in time.

Australian 3D design studio Eness has found a way to play the classic game of Pong on a regular whiteboard.

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Time Waster: FactoryBalls2

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Another great Flash game from Bart Bonte games. This time waster - the second version of FactoryBalls - is more complicated than it might look at first sight.

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Fun: A Calculator built with LBP

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A video of a small 8bit calculator build within the LittleBigPlanet world creation platform for the PlayStation 3. This is the emulation of an electronic calculator with 610 switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters and more implemented in the beta version of the creator.

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Time Waster: Kagi Nochi Tobira

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A new Japanese point and click type puzzle games from Escape-Game called Kagi Nochi Tobira.

Get a key and look for the door and then use the keys to open the door at each level. The game has 20+ levels.

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Data Visualization: Virtual Worlds

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Marketing research company K Zero has published some interesting diagrams on virtual worlds. The first visualizes the virtual worlds by registered accounts and their development since 2003. It also includes some virtual worlds currently in development.

The second diagram shows the involvement of companies and their brands within these virtual worlds.

While the diagrams are very informative we are missing…

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Games: Google Driving Simulator

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Japanese Flash developer Kohring has just released a new version of his 2D driving simulator that uses street maps and satellite images from Google Maps as a playing ground.

While the simulation is still quite simply and does not detect collisions or road boundaries, its definitely a new way to use web 2.0 interfaces. We are looking forward to the first 3D simulation within Google Earth and other virtual world databases.

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Games: Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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If you enjoyed the Movie Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy then you will like this game. It is based on the classic text-adventure from Douglas Adams enhanced with some graphics and can be played entirely online at the BBC web site.

If you remember the old version, well this might also be a possibility to show your kids the kind of games you played when you’ve been their age.

Hint: The BBC shop still sells DVDs from their legendary series…

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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive

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An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.

The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.

More information and a video…

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