In this week’s FFWD Weekly is my article and review of the fun game based on the Penny Arcade comic strip.

In the piece I interview Joel DeYoung, COO of Vancouver’s Hothead Games and producer of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1.

Also there is a review of the game, which is certain to satisfy Penny Arcade fans.

Toronto-based GelaSkins have an assortment of skins for your various devices. Many have been designed by artists, established and on-the-verge.

blik is a design company providing self-adhesive decals – fully removable, some reusable – that are the new wallpaper.

And they’ve now got a line of decals that are based on Nintendo games Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros., and Donkey Kong.

Today’s Georgia Straight includes my latest “Trigger Happy” column. This week, I look at the Wii Fit, which includes a description of the workout I had with Nathan Mellalieu, head trainer and president at Studeo 55 in downtown Vancouver.

Worked up a sweat, I did.

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian