When you have too much time to spare, finding something to do could be very simple, but if you have to sit on your chair and wait for your team mates to send you some documents or something like that, a quick online game could be exactly what you need. Without any intention to advertise, my favorite site with such games is TeaGames, but MiniClip isn't bad at all either. Now, I just found out about a brand new games portal, and I have to share this info with you, as always...



<-125x125 Button - left->FunOrb, launched today, comes from Jagex Ltd., the company that sits behind the successful RuneScape MMORPG. Basically, it's a free site, but there's also possible to pay for a monthly subscription, so you will get access to exclusive game content, no ads during gameplay, full access to forums, as well as full screen mode for all games.

Currently, there are enough games on the site to keep you busy for a few days, including Chess, "Hold the line" racer, or the shooter "Dr P. Saves The Earth". Jagex promised to update the site every two weeks with new games or updated features.

The price of the subscription is £2/$3/€2.50 per month by itself, or £1.40/$2/€2, when combined with RuneScape membership.

No matter what happens, it seems we're headed towards monopoly in most areas of the economy. Obviously, I am only thinking about the IT world, and no matter how many companies are competing on a field, there's always a big one that takes a huge advantage of its market share and celebrity so bad products keep being sold just because of their predecessors' fame. For example, Intel and AMD, and I don't have to add anything else about that topic, especially since today it's about Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive...


There are a lot of people that see Electronic Arts as a money-making company that simply engulfs smaller companies with good titles in their portofolio, and then releases very bad follow-ups, and they may be right. I am not a big fan of sports games, but the FIFA series stopped from adding really new and interesting things a few years ago, as well as the Need For Speed series, which stops at NFS: Porsche for me. Now, I just heard they want to take over Take-Two Interactive, and I really don't know what to think about it, considering the past and present of these two companies and the titles they released so far.

The story is very simple - EA offered $2.0 billion for Take-Two, and they also claim this is as good as it gets. This being an unsolicited bid, just as it happened with Microsoft vs. Yahoo, it seems the story repeats itself. Now, EA offers $26 per share, after a previous offer of $25 per share was rejected by Take-Two.

All there is left to do is wait and see what happens next, as EA tries to catch up with Activision and grab back the "largest game producer" crown from them. In the recent past, Activision purchased the gaming unit of French giant Vivendi for $18 billion, while EA grabbed Bioware and Pandemic, in a deal with a value of $860 million.

Do you like Sci-Fi novels? I always loved them, and it's always a pleasure remembering those times when I simply devoured books one after another, but unfortunately I don't have much time left for reading these days, so when I find about a new RPG game with a fantasy twist, such news always get my undivided attention...



In today's game, Persona 3 FES, your task is to "Lead a group of high school students with a dangerous extracurricular activity: exploring the mysterious tower Tartarus and fighting the sinister Shadows during the Dark Hour, a frozen span of time unknown to normal humans. And the end of S.E.E.S.' quest is no longer the end of the story-witness for the first time the aftermath of the final battle, and the students' struggle to find meaning in their new lives."

Persona 3 FES for the PlayStation 2 delivers two games on one disc - the original version, with new content and features, as well as a brand new chapter that features over 30 hours of gameplay, according to Atlus USA, Inc., Persona 3's producer.

The best part of the deal is that, if you played Persona 3 and still have your saved games around, you can transfer some of your old data to be used in the brand new chapter, so you can save some of your precious time.

Scheduled to be released on the 22nd of April, Persona 3 FES is going to be sold for $29.99, but there's only one problem, especially if you're aged below 18, or you don't like violent games, because this game was rated M for Mature with Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, and Violence by the ESRB...