Just one more turn

By way of Timothy Burke.

The Firaxis team has come out with a new version of Civilization. This is undoubtedly bad news. Somehow I've convinced my wife not to divorce me through version I, II, and III of the series. However Tim suggests that this game is...

...the best in the series, hands-down. Pure silicon crack.

I may have met my match. My only sliver of protection here might be hardware limitations. It looks like the game requires a modern video card and I'm not sure the card in my laptop can handle it.

It's nice to see that there are other smart social scientsts out there who share my addiction to this wonderful game.

Budweiser's can't catch a break

When it rains it pours. First Anheuser Busch attempts to mass market an age old college drinking game, calling it bud pong. Then, the company's public relations department expresses shock and outrage when they learn that some irresponsible drinkers were actually drinking beer, instead of water as the rule book states, while playing the game. Now the game is being pulled from the shelves.

I wonder if they knew that drinking too much water is also dangerous? Perhaps they should get out of the drinking game business all together and focus on other things... Like making a beer that actually tastes good.