Lego is cool, whether you’re 3, 13, 30 or even 90 and nothing can give you that feeling of being a kid again better. Now you can get that feeling from anywhere you can carry your laptop, with the Lego Digital Designer, a brilliant digital twist on playing with colored little square plastic bricks. Version 2 has recently been released, with an improved building experience, over 760 brick types and a completely redesigned user interface.

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Created as a Master of Science thesis by a Computer Science student in Umeå University, Phun is an amazing little educational game giving players a rich physics playground where they can easily build and tear apart environments, creating havoc upon squiggly line blocks, water, bits and so much more. Great for teaching a young class about the concepts of physics or just a fun little toy to waste your time at work.

Download it at Phun.at

Line Rider, the amazing Flash application / “toy” created by Slovenian college student Boštjan Cadež as a class project is one of the internet’s fastest growing gaming crazes. By sketching out lines on a simple flash app, you can create infinite Winter wonderlands for your little character to use and abuse via his sled. Recently announced for the Nintendo DS and Wii, Line Rider is already a cult classic, which has seen players posting over 20,000 self-created videos at YouTube.

Watch the most amazing Line Rider video I’ve ever seen after the jump..

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With the mid-term election coming up soon what a better time to point to a fun little make your own Bush speech web game?! Whether you’re trying to convince the country you’re competent or that the U.S. should attack everything that moves, you’ve got everything you need here to be an amateur speech writer for the most powerful man in the world.

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Tic-Tac-Toe finally gets an upgrade (Tic-Tac-Toe 2.0?) with the release of Triball, a three player, 3D version of every child’s favorite pen and paper game. The game consists of a transparent box of plastic, partitioned into 9 columns, where three players take turns dropping colored balls into the row, with the ultimate goal being to get three of your colors in any direction, including diagonally . A cool little toy to sit on any connected worker’s office shelf.

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It seems all my late night calls to Q-Tip finally paid off, with the announcement yesterday from Take Two Games (and our nerdy gamer cousins) that the Midnight Marauders themselves, A Tribe Called Quest, will be reuniting for a dozen date tour promoting 2K Sports’ newest basketball title, NBA 2K7. I have to admit, I’m impressed with how well Take Two coalesces with the music industry, not in that EA, we’ll support whatever the kids listen to when they’re applying their mascara crap either, but actual meaningful, interesting music artists who deserve all the support they get.

Watch the video for A Tribe Called Quest’s “Electric Relaxation” after the jump..

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In a recent (and detailed) investor presentation from Vivendi Games it was revealed that a Battlestar Galactica game is currently under development for Sierra Games, a subsidiary of Vivendi. The game is reportedly on-target for a 2007 release for Microsoft’s Live Arcade network as well as for PC. No information on whether this will be a licensed tie-in for the Sci Fi networks hit television series or whether this will be fashioned after the original series was presented by Vivendi, though the logo image included in the presentation appeared to be from the modern Battlestar Galactica (!!!).

Read more: Battlestar Galactica Xbox Live Arcade/PC title in development (Via Gamasutra)

Bunch of Nerds now has a family! Well, we always have had family, but, now our blog officially does. Playthrough.net used to be one of the crucial community sites for those involved in the games industry quality assurance field before a tragic, tragic database crash mid-Summer 2006. Shortly after Bunch of Nerds’ quite successful launch (less than 3 months ago WOO!), the decision was made to break off our nerdy posting about the games industry gossip that rolled across our tables daily and turn Playthrough into our outlet for all things gamey. So it’s here, kind of. We are still cleaning up some small bugs here and there, but, you get the gist. So all those interested in lots of gamer-centric jibba jabba from a couple of nerds, feel free to give a visit to Playthrough and give them a virtual wedgie for us.

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When I was younger, I always loved heading to my local bookshop every week to look at the newest shareware games that would pour in from bedroom developers around the world. Sadly, those days are over, but, thanks to the magic powers of the internet, I and many others can re-live those days thanks to the DOS Games Archive. The Archive offers hundreds of old DOS-based games, from freeware hobby projects, to the middle-range shareware greats, to the then-mainstream classics in playable demo forms. Every game I remember loving on DOS is up there, including old playable demos from many of the absolute classics from the day, such as SimCity, Doom, Lemmings, Worms, Warcraft 1 and 2 and Ugh!

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Tuesday, August 22nd, players of the hit MMORPG title EVE Online can expect quite a bit of server downtime and quite some technical changes as CCP deploys their updated code base, “Dragon” in anticipation of the upcoming Kali expansion. The patch will include numerous enhancements to security and encryption, as well as small improvements and optimizations, one of which includes the multiple-language framework, as localized version of EVE are beginning to be released. The trade off to these enhancements will be the dropping of OS support for Microsoft’s Windows 98 and ME operating systems, as Microsoft itself begins dropping extended support for the same out-dated systems. This basically means that after Tuesday, the minimum OS requirement in order to play EVE Online will be Windows 2000 SP2 (sorry SP1 fans) due to the encryption changes being implemented during the patch. Now where’s that OS X version CCP!?

CCP’s announcement after the jump:

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