Remember Mouse Trap, the Rube Goldberg-type game from your childhood? What would you do if I told you that there was a life-sized version of it in Queens last weekend? I bet you'd click inside to watch the video, amirite?

The company behind Mafia Wars and Farmville doesn't like to talk about the sad addicts who fuel its profits. But it does quietly run a special store for them, where imaginary credits are bought with very real bank transfers.

Well, this is pretty amazing: here's Guillaume Reymond's latest stop-motion video for his GAME OVER Project. This time, it's a game of Pac-Man—and it stars 111 real, live people. Get your nostalgia on, and be amazed, inside.

This Chinese playing card company used to employ robots to stuff decks into their boxes at its factory—until it realized that this man with superhuman speed (the video inside has not been sped up) could do it faster.

Most people are familiar with the Bible's story of creation—you know, the "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light" one. Well, what if it was a seven-level 8-bit video game? Find out inside.

Last week, a fair near Allentown, Pennsylvania grabbed some attention for its "Alien Attack" shooting-gallery game, where one could shoot at Barack Obama's likeness. The game was pulled. But there's still a similar game on the Jersey Shore boardwalk!

Gorillas play a tag-like game of punch-and-run, possibly to help hone a sense of boundaries and prepare young apes for grown-up social interaction and conflict. Just like college! (You may want to turn your sound down for the video.) [Guardian]

A South Korean couple let their baby die of malnutrition because they were addicted to online games. Now the government will offer rehabilitation centers for those who always need just one more hit.

Facebook sealed a five-year deal with FarmVille-maker Zynga. Details are secret, but we're guessing Zynga promised to stop doing "every horrible thing in the book" to users, while Facebook promised to stop trying to take all Zynga's money. [VentureBeat]

All the nerds are in one place this week at SXSW, but, let's face it, we all have a little bit of nerd in us. These days geekdom is large and diverse enough for everyone. Where do you fit in?

This is a truly poor job hiding, but in the girl's defense, it's the worst room for hide in seek in the history of hide and seek.

A tipster tells us an interesting Scientology rule — members of the church who appear in movies must always do so in pairs. Which, if true, raises a fun holiday game called 'who's the other Scientologist in...'

Let's face it, if you're under the age of 15, prayer is boring. How can you make your kids pray at all hours of the day until they're sore from kneeling? Turn religion into an RPG and level up...to heaven!

Damn, New York Post. You rocked it with today's headline, which gets placed in the epic "STAB BABY" headline file. But why so serious? Who're they talking about? Pinch Sulzberger? Col Allen? Jon Gosselin? Make guesses, place your bets! Ready?

Look at this: the New York Times has a fill-in-the-blanks game on their Learning Network blog. We're pretty sure your guesses wouldn't get past the NYTimes.com's army of comment moderators, so feel free to play along below.

Poor Guitar Hero. All they want to do is show cartoons of rock stars bouncing around and having fun, and now everyone's gotta get all uptight about it.

Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers.

Monopoly is a terrible, depressing board game; as one expert famously said, it's all about "grinding your opponents into dust" while you cackle. But at least the gouging and economic ruin has been confined to cardboard. Until now.

"Socialitopoly," from Vanity Fair. Its unbiased rankings: Graydon Carter's Monkey Bar has above-average prestige, but the disgustingly easy-to-enter Waverly Inn is nowhere to be found. Take heed, board game-playing social climbers. Click to enlarge. [VF]

A Bernie Madoff game for mobile phones is in the works. "Made Off" will allow gamers to operate their own Ponzi scheme on the go, and is sure to be a big hit in Palm Beach. [BI]