Who likes Dinglepop? I do, I do. What is Dinglepop you ask? The latest and greatest game from our pals, the makers of iminlikewithyou, who are the makers of Blockles, the most addicting game ever (which has been played 763,326 times to date). Basically, on Dinglepop, you use your keyboard or mouse to aim and shoot down little colored dingles, and reap the benefits (yes, it’s a familiar game done right). Go host a game and challenge 6 of your closest pals (or random cute boys or girls floating around the site) to a game. Dinglepop only has 17,827 games played and 943 hours wasted in the first week of launch– seems bound to become a huge success. The site states that playing dinglepop will make you smarter, better looking, and famous– or your money back. (Don’t worry it’s free, fun, and addictive.)

About a month ago, I keyed you into the original version of Line Rider. You remember– it’s the game where you start with blank canvas, and you draw lines, loops, jumps, and whatever else you want to make a ‘course’ for your Line Rider guy. All the rules of gravity apply– so it becomes a challenge to create a course that your rider can survive. Since I last wrote about Line Rider, it seems as though it has really caught on and has become a cult classic of sorts (you should see some of the new courses people have built!). It has become so popular, in fact, that Nintendo (DS and Wii) will be jumping on the Line Rider bandwagon this spring. This super-simple program, invented by Slovenian university student Bostjan Cadez, is truly addictive– probably why it has generated over 16 million page views and became the 7th quickest gaining keyword in Google. The new version comes complete with an eraser, a checkpoint system, zooming, and acceleration lines. I know what I’ll be doing over the holidays!

Hopefully, many of you will be fortunate enough to join me on the real slopes over the Thanksgiving Holiday, but for those of you not so lucky, here’s your consolation. While it pales in comparison to the real thing, Linerider is a ‘toy’ that begins with the user drawing lines on a white background — short lines, long lines, curvy lines, strait lines, jumps, banks, 1/4 pipes — your imagination is the limit. Once you have your lines drawn, you hit a button that launches a ‘rider’ into your course of lines. If your lines are drawn too steep, your rider will crash. If your lines are drawn too flat, your rider will stop. You get the picture– you have to draw your course in such a way to sustain your rider’s speed, but not so steep that your rider goes out of control and crashes. I picked two of what I thought to be the most impressive Linerider courses off of YouTube for you to see. While you’re bored after turkey dinner, challenge your friends and family to a Linerider contest– see who can build the best course (take it from me, it’s not easy). See you on the slopes.

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Anything that references the iconic game system Atari, I'm for, and the Pong Clock is no exception. Designed by Buro Vormkrijgers, The pong Clock is enclosed in a smoked PMMA casing with a laser engraved logo, autograph, and serial number. Score is used to represent the time, with the left player scoring the “hours” and the right player scoring the “minutes”. Even cooler, the pong clock can be switched into game mode, allowing you to take Pong off the wall and play a game against the clock. Unfortunately, due to some recent problems with Atari, only 400 of these clocks will be produced, making this a true collectors item for all the gamers out there. The Pong Clock is available from Buro Vormkrijgers' website.