The year is nearly over and it’s time to show our gratitude to everybody following our work on our upcoming MMO Coobico so faithfully; thanks, especially for all the encouraging comments and emails. As this years small Christmas-goodie we’ve been hurrying up to finish one of the mini-games to be included in Coobico: Metes & Bounds is a clever little tile-laying game, where players expand the borders of their territories turn by turn to claim the largest lands for their fiefdom. Its still got a few loose ends which are going to be added soon, but we challenge you to find your personal highscore in solitaire-mode or by playing against the computer. If you like the game, please make sure to bookmark it and help us to spread the word. Metes & Bounds will also make its appearance on Facebook, we will keep you posted.

Pew Internet & American Life Project offers yet another interesting study, meaningful not only to an American audience: the report “Adults and Video Games” claims that more

“than half - 53% - of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online.” Among adults aged 65+, still “nearly a third play games everyday, a significantly larger percentage than all younger players, of whom about 20% play everyday.”

It’s always amazing to see the games industry–and especially the field of virtual worlds–consistently ignoring such a large target group by focusing on kids and teenagers.