This is a page for sharing games that you either enjoy personally, or commercial games that you have found to be awesome in the classroom. Unlike other pages in this wiki, this page is primarily devoted to talking about why we think these games are good. Make sure to include relevant links.

Katamari Damacy - Because we love to roll!!! Katamari Damacy and its immediate sequel We Love Katamari are just awesome games. There is a fundamental joy to be found in rolling around a giant ball until you've rolled up the entire world (or just the mess in a kid's room). Here's a link for Katamari on wikipedia.

World of Warcraft - The most successful massively multiplayer on-line game to date. This game is massively compelling for a variety of reasons, and like any blockbuster has its shortcomings as well. 

• If you're looking for an extemely polished, well-designed, and user-friendly (even for newcomers) MMORPG, World of Warcraft is a great example.  World of Warcraft has set the bar for future MMO development, and has achieved more than most would have predicted in terms of number of subscribers (over 10 million world-wide).  From an education-oriented perspective, I'd say it warrants investigation in terms of the ways it scaffolds new players' experiences and orientation to the game. (Lucas)

Beyond Good and Evil -  An awesome game about doing investigative photography in a highly imaginative sci fi setting. The game is beautiful, full of action, great puzzles, and the photography mechanic rocks. While orignally a console game, it's recently been ported to PC. The game takes its title from the moral ambiguity of the world in which it is set, where forces that seem to be the good guys at the start of the game turn out not to be so good after all.

Warhammer Online - Though yet to be released, this MMORPG developed by EA/Mythic, is hoping to carve out a piece of the MMO subscriber market.  Based in the the Warhammer universe (developed by Games Workshop), Warhammer Online will focus more on realm vs. realm combat (pioneered by Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot) that pits factions of players against other factions in an ongoing fantasy-based struggle that places a greater emphasis on the guild community than games like World of Warcraft.  To date, over 750,000 people have signed up to particpate in the game's beta test.  The game is currently slated for release in the Fall of 2008.

Sauerbraten - This is a wonderful open source FPS game built on the Cube engine that has modding built directly into the game.  It's always available so you can jump in in the middle of game play. Just press the letter E, and you can start building walls, adding elements, and changing the world.  I've even watched kids use it as an element of game play.   It also supports shared modding in the multi-player mode where multiple players can collaborate in modding.  Again, this adds a whole new level to game play.   Though it is not nearly as powerful as the industry standards such as Source or Unreal, it's a great program and best of all...IT'S FREE!  As a teacher of Game Design, I find this tool a tremendous asset to get kids jump started into game design. 

Civilization - been around a while.  everyone has probably heard of it.  strategy game, you play a budding empire.  can create your own mods.  described very well here.