I’ve been thinking about my Christmas list of games: Assassin’s Creed II, Borderlands, Little Big Planet Game of the Year Edition, Call of Duty: World at War.
If I were to buy all of these games, the cost would equal $230.96 [not including shipping or tax]. That’s a hunk of change.
I can get two iPhones for that.
Or, I could get eleven casual games [if they were $20 a piece].
I bring up the casual games idea after reading a piece by Eric von Coelln about Facebook eating the PC Download game model.
What I took away from the piece is that there is …read more

I finally caved and downloaded the demo for Little Big Planet.
I know. I know! It’s been out for a while now and heck, it’s even been re-released in a Game of the Year Edition.
Talk about being way over fashionably late to the party.
But you know, I’ve been in such a gaming funk here recently that nothing has interested me much. Well, not until today.
I downloaded the demo because I was procrastinating and I didn’t want to play anything that would tax me too much in the brain department.
After what seemed like fifty years [because I had to install 3 freakin’ …read more