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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 …

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.