A Specialty Tagging Site for Games

We have specialty tag sites for medical information, life goals, and photographs, so heck, why not games? Millions of Games, at http://www.millionsofgames.com/ is a site allowing you to tag games and search for tagged games. These games are referred to as "casual games", in other words the ones that you can play and be done with in a few minutes instead of things like Everquest or Civ IV. It's in beta; over 4200 games are listed at the moment.

Unfortunately when I first visited the site the ad banner was one of those "Hit the x and win a free x" deals, in this case clown and ringtone. The clown has an annoying laugh and little horn honk that didn't stop replaying, about fifteen seconds of which was enough to turn my brain into hash browns. A page reload should get you past it if you're equally unfortunate. Anyway, the site allows you to browse, search, or, with registration, list games that you've found.

Browsing games could get to be a huge timesink. You have the choice of viewing all of them alphabetically or going through many different categories, including popular, shooter, word, action, arcade, picks, etc. Tag searching shows both a list of results and related tags.

Listings include name of game, URL, rank, rating, screen shot, who mogged it first, and keywords. Icons at the bottom of the listings show the game categories to which the listings belong. In listings like this I am used to clicking on the title of the game and being taken to a detail page which provides more information. Not here. Here if you click on the title of the game you're taken straight to the game. To get to the detail page you need to click on the "gameology" link on the right side of each listing.

Details include the popularity ranking of the game, the number of times played (I guess these are clickthroughs?), and a list of the recent people who mog'd the game. There are also links to search Technorati for the name of the game and the URL of the game.

This could easily turn into a major timesink, and there are lots of games to get you started. My interest in the site was unfortunately tempered by some of the very loud and repetitive banner ads that had me diving for the mute key.

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