The 3rd annual Toronto Game Jam has just been announced for May 9 - 11, 2008. If you’re not familiar with TOJam, it’s a weekend-long event where game developers and artists gather to tackle the challenge of creating a complete game in just 3 days. It’s a friendly, collaborative environment where burgeoning game creators can exchange ideas and get some recognition. You can participate as a single, in a team or as a floater, helping others out. The end result is always a slew of games that shows off Toronto’s wealth of untapped game development talent.

Things I would love to work on and/or see at the jam this year:

• non-musical re-interpretation of guitar hero/rock band controllers
• iPhone games using the new SDK (might be hard with few iPhones in Canada)
• games driven by web content sources (think Wikipedia: The FPS)
• alternate reality games

Someone has painstakingly recreated the Halo theme in Mario Paint.

This week, The Escapist's Zero Punctuation reviews Tomb Raider: Anniversary.

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The Engineer solves problems in Team Fortress 2.

Robot Chicken plays out the way we all feel after completing a Zelda game.

TGM HOLiC aka Jin8 playing TGM3. He's the best Tetris DS player in the world. If you think it's fast at the beginning, wait until it gets to around 3 minutes in.

Check out the rag-doll physics in EA's new Skate game.

In this installment of the Final Fantasy Retrospective, we explore Final Fantasy X and X-2.

The sixth episode of the Final Fantasy Retrospective series explores two more PlayStation titles, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy IX.