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One of the games getting a good deal of buzz coming out of E3 is a game called "Scribblenauts" for the Nintendo DS, yes that's right not one of the big three consoles. The premise of the game is simple you are given a series of puzzles and can solve them by typing in the objects you might need to solve that puzzle. As evidenced in the video above the game has a disturbingly large database and a very amusing sense of humor in the implementation. In the video listen for the guy who talks about how he put "God" and "Death" into the game and watched them fight it out with amusing results.

I first learned of this game when Jeff Cannata of The Totally Rad Show was talking it up and now I'm seriously considering a DS just to try this game out. Props to the website Nintendorks.com for the very cool video embedded above. A very unique concept for sure if nothing else but to me it looks like some fun as well.

Once upon a time around 1990 or so we had a particuarly geeky Christmas tradition at our house.  See there used to be a computer game development company known as Sierra-Online you might have heard of some of their work like Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest.  Their primary focus was on classic adventure games which were very story driven. Some might even call their work interactive fiction. 

In their hey day Sierra would typically publish an interactive Christmas/Holiday card.  Usally it would be some kind of Christmas scene or funny video that would play developed within their game engine.  Some of them were quite cute and well done, as in the case of the video above.  I'm not sure what got me thinking of it this Christmas but I guess I've been thinking of all the ways that geekness has found its way into my Christmases over the years.

Whether it be interactive Christmas cards (like the one above), or listening to the Soundblaster's text-to-speech do its best rendition of "Twas' the night before Christmas", or watching Hak5's Christmas episode last night on Christmas Eve, it seems there's always been a little geek in Christmas, as it of course should be.