Happy New Year!  Sorry that I haven't been posting much at all in the past couple of months.  The holiday was quite busy and so was work.  I've had a number of articles "locked in the chamber" but just haven't been around to polish them up and pull the trigger.

Things are actually slower right now (kind of a good thing!) but I'm trying to make finishing up these articles a priority for the new year.  So here's my first one, a list of games on various platforms that have gotten my attention over the past couple years...

There are two trends in game design/mechanics/genres that are really bugging the heck out of me right now: deck building card games, mostly clones of Dominion with a new theme and mild mechanic changes, and tower defense video games, which just copy each other and flood the iTunes app store.

I have an iPod Touch, and probably end up owning an iPhone in the future, once my cheapy flip phone's battery finally dies off.  I've had my iPod Touch for a year now and I've loved it, and continue to do so.

Prior to the Touch, I was Palm fan for a few years and before that it was a Handspring.  Before *that* it was my *actual* palm, writing notes on my hand or on index cards.  I am and probably forever will be an incorrigible note taker, so I love electronics that help me in this regard.

But the Touch (and the Palm and the Handspring) all do so much more, from simple games to keeping me organized to capturing moments on the go, and I have become connected at the hip with these devices. (quite literally seeing as they have a permanent place on my jean pockets)