Found this on Halloween and forgot to post it.

Zombie Hord 3

Its just a simple flash web game but if you like top down zombie shooters its actually pretty good. Lots of good weapons and upgrades and lots of zombies to shoot. Just enough story to make it interesting without getting in the way of the killing zombies. Good for wasting some time.

I believe it was steamingturd that was the first to find the game Puerto Rico by Rio Grande Games. We have played it many many times and have really enjoyed the game.

It's a board game where you are a plantation owner on the island of Puerto Rico. You plant various crops on the plantation and build various building to facilitate and aid the plantation. Each round you pick a title, like mayor, captain, prospector, this gives you an edge while doing that operation that turn, but all player get an opportunity to do something on each players turn. For example, if you choose captain you get a bonus when shipping product but all player get an oppertunity to ship product. There are no dice, and the only randomizer in the game is the crops available for planting each turn. Despite the lack of randomizers the game has a wonderful variety of strategies that can work to bring you victory. Victory is determined by who has the most victory points achieved by a combination of buildings built (each building is work X amount of VPs) and product shipped for VPs.

Well is appears that Eagle Games has somehow gotten the rights to create a PC version of this game.

http://www.eaglegames.net/products/puerto_rico/puerto_rico.shtml

I wonder how faithfully they did the conversion. I also wonder how good the AI is for the computer players. It does seem a bit costly for a board game conversion but it might be fun to play computer playes and not have to wait for the slackers I game with too take the glacial turns.