As you can probably tell from the lack of posts around here lately, Nuketown's on a mini-hiatus for the holidays.

MSN's new version of this excellent strategy board game is now available. Download it any play against computer opponents, or pony up some cash any play it online against real people. Now if only they'd come out with it for Xbox... Read the full story.

He may not be dead Jim. Read the full story.

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Part 2 of OgreCave's Christmas Gift Guide focuses on 12 games priced over $20. Read the full story.

The geeks at OgreCave present the first half of their Christmas Gift Guide for 2004. The dozen games in this feature all cost less than $20. Read the full story.

The science geek in me loves stuff like this. Read the full story.

Bungie interviews one of the founders of Geezer Gamers, a site for thirtysomething gamers with lives, jobs, families, spouses and very little in common with the 12-year-olds running amok on Xbox Live. Read the full story.

All you wannabe geek dads out there might want to think twice about resting your laptop on, well, your lap. Researchers are theorizing that doing so could raise scrotum temperatures, and thus, create "fertility dysfunction." That said, like all alarmist, headline-seeking studies like this one, I recommend taking all this with a grain of salt. Read the full story.

Commentary on Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson (aka "Mr. Bean's) attempt to protest a new draconion law again "hate speech" in the U.K. Read the full story.