This isn’t exactly a game, but you could play with for hours… if you have interest in sculpting anyways.

Still in alpha stages (meaning it may have lots of bugs, so if you intend to keep your work, save constantly) it’s a very interesting virtual sculpting tool.
In other words, a simplified and intuitive 3D modeling tool.
Created by DrPetter, you can get a copy of the alpha at the official Sculptris website!

Source: TIGSource

Big Pixel Racing is a… uh… racing Flash game that looks pretty interesting:

Developed by Big Pixel Studios, you take place of cute box-like (well, big pixels) dogs driving cars.
It’s coming out soon, just check the official Big Pixel Studios website for updates!

Source: IndieGames

Action News does a piece about game addiction quoting World of Warcraft and Everquest representing MMORPGs as “new sources of addiction”:
I guess the whole thing is close to fair, if compared with most of the mainstream news bashing of online games.

BUT, the comparison with drugs, AGAIN, is as unfortunate as ever.
As you see, they completely ignore that both WoW and Everquest have, has had, and will probably have hundreds of thousands of players who never had problems like the ones described.
It’s as close to gambling, drugs and other addiction as Monopoly and that Uno card game is.
With an userbase like the ones the games have, shure, it’s innevitable that some kids and adults who already have problems will end up having sad tales to tell. We had something very similar to that with the Dungeons and Dragons RPG decades ago.
But as I see, it could be just about any other thing. A book, a movie, TV series, a music band or whatever.
What parents, friends and other people have to understand is that, for people who already have problems (ADD, depression, etc) anything can be used as a tool to potentialize it… so there must be constant monitoring of habits to prevent those problems from getting worse.
Blaming a game for being the cause of suicide for a guy who stopped taking medication after who knows how much time he spent isolated playing one game is just bullshit.
He used the game to escape reality. So seems more likely that what killed him was the reality he was into.
If something, it’s more believable that Everquest delayed his suicide with rather than the opposite. Unfortunately, he found no one who would make his reality better than what Everquest had to offer, it seems.

Think about that.

News source: TechEBlog

A highway turned into a river in Saudi Arabia, Jedah, in early December 2009:

You can see cars, refrigerators, all sorts of junk and even a guy on top of a car trapped in the flood.
We should use videos like this one in Brazil on campaigns against people who throw garbage on rivers which eventually provokes floods just like this one.

Source: BombounaWeb

Stop motion video showing what (some) women are after…

From Dumais Studio.

Source: TechEBlog

So, I always looked as these robot dogs and pets and asked myself: Why would anyone want to replace a real pet for something like that.
A post on Gizmodo showed me the truth behind those. People don’t buy robot pets for them… they buy it for their own real pets!

Mott the dog there isn’t about to take Poo-Chi’s marriage proposal it seems…

Source: Gizmodo

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) has a tracking system that locates in real time the places Santa Claus is visiting using Google Maps and Google Earth.
Unfortunately, I’m posting this too late (my current computer/internet status is as if I went back more than 10 years ago in technology) since Santa already visited all the places he needed this year.
Here’s a collection of places he visited in 2008:

If you wanna watch videos and the places he was located at this year, check the official NORAD Santa Tracker page!

Source: Lifehacker

A black & white very christmas-y view of Prage, shot with Canon 1D MarkIV by Philip Bloom!

Stunning!

Source: Gizmodo

’tis the season of joy, happyness and…. KICKING SOME SERIOUS BUTTS!!

Play as Santa (and a couple of unlockable characters) in this remake of 8-bit classic Kung Fu (Spartan X) fit for Christmas!
Click the image or this link to play i-Mockery’s Santa Fu!
First time around is fairly easy… you’ll unlock the final boss with quite the surprizing end. xD

Source: Kotaku

Dracula Cha Cha, created by indie developer Lobo, is a… different Christmas-y game!

Watch as Dracula goes avoiding all the dangers of Xmas time! xD
In development stages I guess, as it’s not even up on Lobo’s Infectuous website yet (at the time I wrote the post at least).
Still, pay the website a visit because there are tons of interesting indie games there to check!

Source: IndieGames