Posts Tagged with ‘game’

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

AlexaDex is a dangerously addictive virtual stock market trading game. Users are given 10,000 dex dollars to spend on shares as they please, then watch their stocks rise and fall and compete to roll out number one on the AlexaDex each quarter. You can view the top 25 investors, and those who have gained the most (in terms of the percentage their earnings have jumped in a given amount of time). You can also view on the homepage the recent transactions [...]