WOW! World of Fourcraft

What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?

World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!

As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”

Via Mashable

Angry Birds LIVE

It may not be the most innovative idea ever, but this live version of Angry Birds was probably really fun to produce. Plus it’s always interesting to see the translation of an online experience into the physical world — it definitely started a party in Barcelona!

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Random Fun Typing Game

Typing Skills + Shooting = Fun

I kept waiting for subliminal messages to come through in the words which fell down.

This would be a lot harder if the words were all captcha codes.  That would be challenging, but would it be as fun?

http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/

Play Russian Roulette with Your Virtual Social Life

A Miami ad school concept campaign lets you play Russian roulette with your Facebook account.

Sort of a reverse Whopper Sacrifice for higher stakes.  Interesting strategy capitalizing on the growing importance of one’s virtual life.

You have to wonder though, if this was a real concept how would it be spread if it keeps zapping people’s profiles, the very place where their friends would learn about it?  :)

http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/facebook-russian-roulette/

The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN

We’ve seen the MMOG Wordsquared, now Pac-Man fans can eat their pac-dots too in The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN. Built in HTML5 to promote IE9 by the folks at Soap.

via laughingsquid

What the Kids are Doing on Facebook

Draw My Thing is a new game on Facebook that’s picking up speed.

Users can connect with their friends or strangers and play a Pictionary type of game.

http://apps.facebook.com/drawmything/

Another Kinect Art Piece

More artists are using XBox Kinect hacks to create stunning art based around people.

Photographer Audrey Penven captured the patterns of infrared light produced by the Kinect and the results are beautiful.

http://laughingsquid.com/audrey-penven-reveals-the-hidden-beauty-of-microsofts-kinect/

Contributed by James Taylor

Magnum Pleasure Hunt

Clever game site from B-Reel takes you through different online worlds.

Great execution on a nice idea.

http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com

Contributed by Caio Lazzuri

Standouts from Experimental Flash at FITC

Here are some of the entrants to FITC’s Experimental Flash Category that I found to be standouts:

http://gekitsuioh.jp/en/ – Interactive surface game.

http://attraction-lemanga.fr – Anime Interactive Anti-smoking campaign.  Interactive storytelling with motion-tracking and more.

http://www.isleoftune.com/ – Simcity meets music for the obsessive.

http://www.resn.co.nz/threaded/ – Insanity in flash.

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim

Classic Handheld Games

Its hard to describe how important portable entertainment is.  These classics bring back lots of memories for me.

Any familiar to you?

http://www.pica-pic.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim and Leila Coffman