F Off Friday - 9 April

The sun is shining and it's a beautiful day here in London, so we're sorry if you are stuck indoors on your computer. To help you pass the rest of the day, here's a link dump with some great articles and videos!

Shameless Self Promotion Department:
The Go Game does Splinter Cell [xbox pulse]
Read a recap and see the photos from our Big Kid Easter Egg Hunt [Go Game Blog]

Flash Game of the Week: ...but there were cannons - Developed by Armor Games, it's fairly simple. We're going to use the 'but there were cannons!' excuse for most things from now on.

What We're Reading:
The City as a Platform [shareable]
Is WOW too big to fail? [gamasutra]
Harness the Power of Happiness [Times]
Get offline to be productive [digitalself]
Dark Side of the Moon....and video games? OK [Wired]

What We're Watching:
How Video Games Build Leaders [Washington Post]
Video games take over New York [Vulture Blog]
Amazing business card throwing - yeah we know it's an ad, but still! [Youtube]

Other Cool Stuff:
Amazing urban camouflage [Web Urbanist]
East London van graffiti [Hookedblog]
If Calvin took ritalin [Laughing Squid]
Circuit board shoes [boingboing]
Wu-Tang pizza [slice]

The Big Kid London Easter Hunt is EGGstra EGGcellent!

Sorry, we can't stop ourselves with the Easter puns. We know everyBUNNY is HOPing we'll stop, but we're just so EGGcited about how EGGstraordinarily fun the Big Kid London Easter Hunt was on Saturday! We're pretty EGGstatic about it.

F Off Friday - 2 April

Bank Holiday? Schmank Holiday. We've been working hard to procrastinate and bring these links to you. On with the show!

Shameless Self Promotion:

The Go Game Big Kid London Easter Hunt is sold out. Woohoo! See you tomorrow.

We're finalists in the Go London Social Innovation Competition [Go London]

The Go Game Spotify playlist for this week [Spotify]

Flash Game of the Week: Mushroom Madness 2. Hooray for hitting cute woodland creatures with a mallet. What could be better?

F Off Friday - 26 March

Ooops. Almost forgot it was Friday. No, seriously. How did this happen? Well who knows, but it's time for another link dump brought to you by your friends at The Go Game.

Shameless Self-Promotion Department: The Big Kid London Easter Egg Hunt - Lots of people signed up already...come out and play with us on April 3rd! 3 hours, £3, all for charity! More details here.

Flash Game of the Week: Infectionator World Domination - The sequel to the wildly popular Infectionator game, but this time you're competing to take over various cities with zombies instead of just racing the clock. Our high score this week: 1.9 million. In other news, we have too much time on our hands.

F Off Friday - 19 March

Yes, we've been faffing about today so there's a late Friday post. We know you've been waiting anxiously for it...F Off Friday. Let's do it!

Flash Game of the Week Loondon - The game has beautiful artwork and has a decent story. It would work a lot better in the hands of the guys from EchoBazaar, but overall it's worth a play.

From the Shameless Self Promotion Department:
The Go Game powers the BBC's Digital Planet panel at SXSW [Digital Planet]
Play The Go Game's Easter Egg Hunt for Big Kids! [Community Games]
Mei's post on her favourite radio adverts from the Radio Advertisers Hall of Fame [GG Blog]

Our Picks for the Most Brilliant and Bizarre Radio Adverts

It's time for a celebration! Why? Because it's the day after St. Patrick's Day and we are gloriously and joyfully un-hungover. The world is bright and shiny and new and full of happy furry puppies and immensely clever radio ads.

It may be a bit of a non-sequitur, but we wanted to share our best of the best radio adverts from the research we did for a training game in Newcastle last month (photos from our lovely little jaunt here). Listening to oodles of ads while designing the game got us realising how these brilliant clips can make you smile, make you laugh, make you curl your lip in distaste, make you want to stand up and cheer, and make you turn to your colleague and go OMG!!!! WTF!?!?!!!!?

They may even make you buckle your seatbelt. Hilarious, bizarre, uncomfortable, intelligent, amusing and revolting, all in these next few short clips. We highly recommend you have a listen.

To mark yesterday's day of Irish celebration, we'll kick things off with the best beer advert from, of course, Guinness.
Confession



Next up is a gem from the horrifying world of public service announcements. Chris got a morbid amount of enjoyment out of the sound effects involving small children in this one.
Death Calling



Another masterpiece from the brains behind public awareness campaigns. This is the creepiest bedtime story of all time. Screw the Big Bad Wolf and the monster under the bed, it's this radio ad that will have you losing sleep over driver side mirrors and soft-boiled eggs.
Peter Pan



Most terrifying/revolting horoscope I've ever heard. Let's just say it involves things that are unpleasant and burning. And Uranus.
Capricorn



Yes. I find this one quite amusing.
Women Drivers



And for my ultimate all-time complete and utter favourite - the incredible Diet Irn-Bru ad. Makes me want to move into a Scottish chip shop and sleep under the deep fat fryer.
Diet Irn-Bru

The Big Kid London Easter Hunt

How come the little ones get to have all the fun every Easter? We want chocolate bunnies and egg hunts too!

So we're teaming up with the fabulously inventive felines over at Bearded Kitten to produce a Go Game full of funny bunnies, outlandish eggs, hilarious social games, and highly irreverent Jesus jokes. Come join us at 2pm at the Mad Hatter in SE1 for some serious springtime shenanigans.

£3, with proceeds going to charity! Sign up and get all the details here.