Anika’s Odyssey: Land of the Taniwha is a beautiful point and click adventure by Tricky Sheep similar in style to Sprout or Samorost. You begin with the innocent task of gathering water from the well. As a great eagle swoops from the sky and absconds with your rabbit pal, the bucket becomes a stool that allows you to jump the fence and begin your adventure!

Control is entirely mouse-driven and centers around clicking hotspots on the screen to enable various events. Your cursor will change when you hover over a clickable spot. To look around the environment, simply slide the mouse to the edge of the screen and it will gradually scroll in that direction. The game is largely exploration-based, so it's important to pay attention to your surroundings.

Puzzles are mostly confined to hunting for the next point to click or discovering which order to trigger the events. There are a few more traditional riddles to solve, however, but nothing too difficult. The game is heavy on charm and light on frustration, almost like an interactive storybook.

Anika's Odyssey manages to tell a simple but engaging tale with nothing more than images and sound. The visuals are absolutely beautiful, complete with layered backgrounds that give the illusion of depth. The music is equally enchanting and, when paired with the story of a young girl on a quest, conveys the rather innocent sense of adventure Anika must feel herself.

It's funny, it's cute, and there's a host of zany creatures just waiting to be discovered. Anika's Odyssey a little bit of storybook magic. Play Anika's Odyssey.

Bright sparks have realised that the Orange Box is entirely compatible with the 21st century wonder that is Garry’s Mod. Chris Rhea points us at NeoGaf, who are collecting the resultant carnage.

Now, inevitably, these are going to get a little tiresome. But until then, this is awesomely fun stuff. I’m especially fond of NeoGaf member Lyon’s TF2 crew going to City 17 shots. That said, the Hannibal-Lecter Spy is pretty neato too.

Season Two of Telltale Games’s Sam n’ Max started last week, with the first episode, “Ice Station Santa,” made available on Gametap and the Telltale website. If you haven’t tried it out yet and you’re wondering whether it’s good – yes, what I’ve played so far is good! I was a huge fan of the original game, and these games seem like a true follow-up to that classic. Definitely take it for a test drive, at least. The fourth episode of Season One, “Abe Lincoln Must Die,” is now free, and you can get it here.

Steve Purcell, the creator of Sam n’ Max, also has an S&M (snicker) webcomic on the Telltale site, and the darn thing was nominated for an Eisner award this year.

I’m all over Sam n’ Max like stripes on a candy cane.

Nerd love is a beautiful, often creative thing. Take for example Xbox Live user Moviesign's unique marriage proposal to longtime girlfriend and fellow gamer Furtive Penguin. He built a custom map in the Halo 3 map editor Forge to ask his Spartan partner if she'd like to spend the rest of her natural life with him. After probably thinking "What's 'Arry E' mean?" she agreed to the idea of wedded bliss with Moviesign. Makes the cockles burn, doesn't it?

It was so long ago when Nintendo first announced the DS. How all laughed and jeered. Two screens? What a stupid idea! Well now that stupid idea has been proven not so stupid over 50 million times. Selling a hundred times better than your average hotcake, Nintendo's handheld gamble has paid off big time. In contrast, it took them 11 years to sell 100 million Gameboys, so as PC World points out, the DS should easily surpass that if momentum continues.

Manifold is a physics-based action/puzzle game created by artist and designer Joel Esler. Use special orbs that can alter gravity within a small radius to climb your way through dangerous situations. It's a simple idea that's been paired with smart artistic direction to create a game that pleases the senses as well as your sense of fun.

Control the bug-like character with the arrow (or A, D, W) keys and use the mouse to move the pointer. The cursor allows you to create gravity wells by aiming at a target then dragging the mouse to indicate gravity direction. The character will toss a ball that will open the gravitational disturbance when it comes in contact with a wall. You can create as many wells as you have balls to toss and can re-absorb unused areas by moving the cursor over one and tapping the spacebar.

Digital Eel have made the full version of Plasmaworm, their nifty Snake clone, free for download. They’re the guys behind Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, the “lunchbreak” space exploration game, and its sequel, Weird Worlds.

The full game includes 20 different levels of increasing difficulty, playable in single player as well as two-player modes. You can also create your own levels and music using the built-in editors.

Don't own any Game&Watch handhelds? No problem! Handheld.Remakes.org is a huge smorgasbord of retro gaming games that include a slew of old Game&Watch Nintendo games. There's even a Speak 'n Spell!

New trailer from incoming SimCity Societies by EA. Realy nice!

Really impressive trailer of upcoming Resident Evil 5 by Capcom. looks incredible natural and settings is quite unusial for survival horrors! XBOX 360. Enjoy :)