- Time to dig out the old link stick again, and dance around the maypole randomly slapping our knees and... wait, do Americans know what Morris dancing is? Consider yourself lucky if you don't.

Anyhow, highlights from this set of links include Petri Purho's latest, extremely bizarre fast-prototyped game, as well as a new Wacky Races arcade game from an odd Anglo-Japanese developer and some random GameTap goings-on. And Finnish building Tetris (thanks, Aleksi E!):

Tales of the Rampant Coyote: What Were the Best Indie CRPGs of 2007?
Good look at a neglected micro-genre.

Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars: December fourth things.
Treyarch's 3 in-development games seem on the money.

the2bears.com » Humpsters
Petri Purho's latest game (pictured) dissected - it's a tad disturbing.

Video Games Business & Marketing: Who are casual gamers?
Referencing a Post-Intelligencer article on casual games, excellent.

Water Cooler Games - Playing Columbine Screening, Rejection
Ledonne is the closest to Michael Moore we have in the game biz, one suspects.

Canned Dogs » Blog Archive » Game Center CX live on TV for 9 hours
I love the Japanese for loving this.

Location Test Video: Wacky Races - Arcade Heroes
Very interesting - from Banpresto and an Anglo-Japanese developer called Gamewax.

Angled Whiteboards » Blog Archive » GameTap 3.5.
Some notable community and look changes and a unified Player, interesting.

YouTube - Mikontalo Tetris
Tetris on buildings... in color... in Finland! Score.

GameTap : Disappearance of over 70 games on ...
Licensing agreements ending for EA/Interplay games, among others. Hmm...