So That's What You've Been Playing: Planet Crafter, Girl Genius, Palia

 

Besides Second Life, yours truly has been playing a few games. There's Planet Crafter in which instead of blowing things up, you're trying to make a world habitable for people. There's Girl Genius: Adventures in Castle Heterodyne, in which you take on the role of an online comic heroine. And there's Palia, one of the new "cozy MMOs," in which you win over the locals at a village as well as building a house to impress your fellow gamers.

Read the reviews in Other Grids, Games and MMOs.