Facebook is saturated with copycat games occupying the same genre: farming, cooking, fishing and petting. How about Vikings? Gotcha! Bet you didn’t see that one coming.
So give credit to Iceland’s GoGoGic and their pioneering social game, Vikings of Thule, which popularises Norse culture (just in case you nodded off during history in school) and delivers the sort of whack to the senses that would even make the likes of Asterix proud.
Vikings of Thule is an MMOG on the facebook platform. You have to admit the prospect of charging around as a Viking, a mercenary group in history famed for being more blood-thirsty than merchant bankers, does give one the horn. The premise of the game is simple – select your avatar and allegiance from one of the cities illustrated on the authentic map of Iceland, and strive to become what is effectively one of the 39 members of the Viking parliament, otherwise known as the Althingi (perhaps they were tanked up on Thule beer during that particular brainstorming session).
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There are few things in this world so iconic that, with only a partial description, people instantly know what you’re talking about. Men on a zebra crossing? Very clearly the Beatles (more accurately the Abbey Road album). Use the Force? Obviously Star Wars.
The air was cool as I descended the stone mausolean stairs, reaching out into the eveloping blackness for something to keep me upright. The room stank of death as I delved deeper into the dreaded necropolis, some detestable ichor dripping from the ceiling onto my coat.
