General: Beware - Brain Pain!

A nice little free game with simple controls that is infuriatingly tricky.

http://armorgames.com/play/1846/shift-3

Oh yes, this will soak up some productivity!

General: Finally! (well, hopefully soon anyway)

A lot of people have been waiting a long time for this to happen.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

It looks like it will be a lot of fun but with no mention of a release date, there's no telling when it will be fun.

General: Free Game time again

This time an odd-ball MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) based around competing factions led by Bo Peep and Little Red Riding Hood!

The web-site has a rather nice scrollable text with a static graphical front overlay, worth a look just by itself (imo).

http://www.secondhandlands.com/

A snippet -
"Secondhand Lands ...
is the massively multiplayer online game set in a parody fairytale world. There will be none of those pansy elves or cantankerous dwarves in this land. Our heroes are comprised of the Wolves and the Sheep who have pledged their undying allegiance to Bo Peep or Little Red Riding Hood. Well, perhaps not undying... "

General: Whatever became of Levelord?

Or, "Richard Bailey Gray III" the great 3D Level designer.
It's only THIS hard to find out -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Levellord

Here are some good relatively recent pages, up to yesterday even:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gray

http://www.levelord.com/

http://cdb2.deviantart.com/

Enjoy!

I really must make a rendition of this in Second Life -

Techo: Ray-Tracing and 2 free games

Well, a free Ray-Tracing 3D engine, one free game and another game in Beta that will be available for free when completed in early July.

First, the fascinating article with plenty of sample pictures -
Ray Tracing in Games: A Story from The Other Side


And where to pick up the games - Arauna Realtime Ray Tracing