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One of the promotional tools for Sega's new Condemned 2 is the website Offset the Evil. The ironic yet consistently unnerving site delivers an onslaught of a different kind - it is just oozing with bright colours, loving ponies, sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Check it out...

Not knowing that much about Condemned2 (and given I am a total wimp when it comes to these graphically violent games), I squealed. Despite it's totally unevil appearance, I was constantly on edge, waiting to be shocked with a terrifying noise and cut scene of some poor guy getting his head smooshed in a vice - spliced amongst loving child-friendly graphics, colour and song. It's kinda like Happy Tree Friends - but maybe more scary as at least I know what to expect with HTF.

I am in awe of the guy at the top of the leaderboard on Pony Heart Quest. How long did you spend jumping ponies over that river?!?

Two words - flippin awesome.

On the topic of games that matter, the latest feel good gaming experience is the race to deliver bed nets to villagers across the African planes. To commemorate World Malaria Day on the 25th of April (coincidentally on the same day as ANZAC day), you can zoom around on your wee scooter, handing out packaged nets in a race against the stunning African sunset - which ultimately will send a net on your behalf through the UN Foundation.

I particularly like that you can't run anyone over. Nice touch.

This was a submission to Unleash the Goo - made in a student flat.

This is really quite remarkable. And scary, as there is now video evidence that elephants are better at painting then I am. O boy.

Just what the title says...

So I thought I would try and get into Jane McGonigals new ARG The Lost Ring, and I allowed myself a good half hour to get up to speed and understand the game which began just over a month ago. Initially, I am really intrigued. The trailer is neat (and not too scary - this is important), the website is really well constructed and flows nicely, and the story has this awesome juxtaposition of myth and reality which I enjoy.

But as I begin to try and piece together even the broadest sense of the game plot, I am rapidly overwhelmed by screeds of forums posts, podcasts, file downloads, videos and more. This is where the non-gamer gets off the ride please - content overload!

While I am trying diligently to learn more about this elusive 'lost ring' - and moreover what I am even supposed to be doing to 'play' the game - I realise that my half hour has quickly evaporated and I am not even through what could be deemed 'level one'. And before I've even had a chance to get there, some wise guy on the other side of the world just found chapter 10. Sheesh.

I vow to return to the six browser tabs I now have open at a more convenient time and try even harder, but alas, today I close them all faced with the sheer terror of how much content must have accrued during my absence.

I did, however, manage to see New Zealand's effort at playing 'the lost sport' here. Nice.