Zelda + Rap = Ocarina of Rhyme

Some folks did a mashup of Zelda and various hip-hop artists and are getting a lot of attention on the blogosphere. It's definitely different! I quite enjoy it. Check it out here!

Games Introspective: Peggle

Wired has a neat article about why hardcore gamers seem to like Peggle so much.

For a casual gamer, Peggle seems too heavily based on luck. You aim the ball, but once you've dropped it and it hits the first peg, all bets are off: It bounces and careens through the forest of pegs in crazy, zigzagging patterns. For casual players, there doesn't seem to be a clear enough correlation between how they aim and the results.

But hard-core gamers see the game quite differently. When they look at the Peggle board, they see the Euclidean geometry that governs how the ball falls and pings around.

Read it here!