Simple pleasures. (The Game Room).

SOMETIMES WHEN I PLAY A GAME, I WANT A CHALLENGE--a game that takes time to master, that kills me off repeatedly before I finally build up the skills required to take my rightful place as a champion player.

Behind the Eight Ball

But the fact is, lots of times I'm happy just to while away a few minutes with a fast, easy-to-play game that's simply fun. Fortunately, there are plenty of those games to choose from--and this month's Game Room has a bunch of them.

Garage Games' first Mac game is called Marble Blast, and its basic mechanics could not be any simpler: you have ...

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