If oldie time pirates and the saltiest of sea dogs are to be believed, X always marks the spot. But what about when you’re given a treasure map and there’s no x to be found? That’s madness! Treasure Madness! We grab a pick axe and a machete and go deep into the jungle on a quest for buried goodies in this popular Facebook release.

Exciting as they might be in the movies, put a weapon in most people's hands and it's fairly likely that they'll have no idea what to do with it. How to hold it, how to aim properly, even how to fire – the whole thing is a mystery to the majority of us, only those who have actually fired out in the field able to hold back the shakes. B.C. Bow Contest's weaponry, though not especially glamorous, is equally difficult to master, play here seeing you take control of a cave man as he attempts to fire a series of arrows towards a collection of targets – some moving, some not.

Have you ever wanted to rig up some dynamite, blow up a building and wreak some havoc? Then perhaps you may want to seek professional help. For the rest of us, we can play Implode! on our iPhones.

Over at Gamasutra, Greg Costikyan has an interesting article that compares social games with the PC downloads market. A big reason developers are jumping onto the social gaming bandwagon and designing games for Facebook is that they get to keep all of the revenues from their titles instead of surrendering as much as 80% of their cut to the portals that serve as the gatekeepers of digital download games. The big question, of course, is whether Facebook and others are going to start demanding a share of the profits from social games as well. Costikyan thinks it's not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when" and "how." Read the entire article here on Gamasutra.

It’s a darn exciting time to be making games. New technologies are opening up entirely new avenues for game play and interaction. The Wii’s magical Wiimote allows you to dance around your living room whacking virtual tennis balls. Facebook lets you play games with friends and strangers around the country—potentially all 300 million of them at the same time. Cellphones, the iPhone chief among them, put incredibly powerful computers and thus game systems right in your pocket.

Your phone’s with you everywhere you go, and the constant connectivity of cellphones makes them much more powerful than your average portable game system. These are devices that know where you are, who you know and that can connect you with other players. With GPS and constant data connections mobile phones enable new ways to play. The question is of course, “Are we ready to adopt these new technologies and all they might mean for how we play games?”