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Some rather creative folks have started using teleport hacks to beam sacrificial level 1 gnomes to great heights and crater on impact to form words. It’s a new form of spamvertizing (gnomevertising?) that seems to go beyond the private message spam that many WoW players are accustomed to seeing.

I’m not sure if I should be annoyed or intrigued. I mean, the creativity of it is just so humorous, yet, I can’t help but dislike any kind of advertising spam

[via Raph Koster]

Over on Wired, Clive Thompson explores the ever-increasing phenomenon of voice chat in on-line games. After all, for games that don’t have it built in, such as WoW, it’s almost necessary to use it when joining a guild.

Yet, somehow it changes how people act or speak. An interesting commentary on the state of gaming. Me, I think it’s a great thing to have, but then again, I don’t have a squeaky 11-year-old voice …

Yes, you, too can download and enjoy them. 100 games for free, legally.

Now, I’ve played many of these before, unfortunately a lot of them I can’t play on my wonderful little Macbook without booting into Windows.

Some are Flash-based, some are Java-based, so YMMV when it comes to playing these.

What’s even better is checking out the growing comments section that adds probably another hundred more.

Well, David’s gone and done it again. Another notch in the addictive TD-style games that have led to the demise of a great deal of my productivity. This outing brings us Vector TD. If you haven’t seen this type of game before, well, I’m sorry if I am the one that is ruining your chances of getting any work done today.

Inspired by a Warcraft III map/mod, Element TD, the entire point of the game is to just build towers and kill the un-ending swarm of “creeps” slowly making their way across the map. Simple, right? But, like anything good, the simplicity is deceiving.