I noticed over on GameDev that at GDC, a few awards were handed out. What caught my eye was not that Half Life 2 won Best Game ( that seemed like an obvious choice to me ), but what really caught my eye was that Katamari Damacy won best Game Design!!

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On Amazon.coms Custom Reviews for Katamari Damacy it has scored 4.5 stars from a total of 73 reviews. It would seem that original addictive game play and design is still alive, at least in Japan.

If you can think of any, up and coming, games that have some original and addictive game design elements, I would love to hear about them, so please post replies to this news post.