Fun Link Friday

Gaming's most impractical outfits - What ARE they wearing?
Diamond In The Rough: 'Far Enough Away to See Clearly' - a look at the use of avatars in story telling and player representation in games.
Computer games drive social ties - a look at how computer games are becoming more social - it's good to see positive gaming articles being written by more general, respected, news sites
Mystery Chronicles - Murder Among Friends - a new game from the kings of Hidden Object Games
Possibly the best video gaming ad, in the world, ever (for Wario on the Wii). Check it out - I won't be able to look at a YouTube page in the same way again! The ad is fantastically creative and you really won't be expecting what you get
Apparently there was going to be a HALO mmorpg but the studio making it got shut down. Ensemble, the closed studio, are also the ones behind the Age of Empires games