A fun way to stumble upon games online

StumbleUpon is a brilliant service that helps you find interesting websites online with the help of other people. Taking the form of a free Firefox plugin, it feels like a kind of web-wide Digg, where you vote on websites that you like which pushes up that link's popularity and increases the likelihood that another user will visit that page after clicking a Stumble! link in a toolbar. Read more about how it works here.

Like Digg, StumbleUpon has a healthy contingent of users that play and read about games (incidentally, I stumbled upon StumbleUpon when I was glancing at Joystiq's traffic referral links), so the suggestions in the video games category are generally excellent. You can try out a demo of the gaming section by clicking the link tagged "online games" which will provide you with an endless stream of direct links to flash games that can literally take up your whole day.

If you're looking for a more passive experience, the toolbar also allows you to browse randomly through video game links in categories such as news, video, photos and even Wikipedia pages. One moment you can be reading about the history of gamepads, the next you can be watching the latest footage from Crysis. Random selection at its best.

Reader Comments (4)

Stumbleupon is an excellent service. Been using it for a while now. Been very helpful in helping me find a lot of useful and fun sites.

Yeah, I started using by just perusing Firefox's extensions page on their offical site. Stopped using because I eventually STUMBLED EVERYTHING. Literally, I had selected every category and never saw anything new. That was a few months ago though, I'll give it another go I guess... wonder if I remember my login... lol

StumbleUpon! is great. Actually, I signed Joystiq' RSS feed because a friend of mine kept using it to suggest me posts from here.

But I've always thought of Stumble as being more of a del.icio.us cousin, a different take on social bookmarking, than Digg, since everyone's suggestion is kept in a neat blog-like page, instead of a general "portal" for everyone to check out.

I've been using SU for almost 3 years, and while sometimes the new sites do dry up every once in a while, you almost always find something in your interest group to waste your time with.

I'm surprised that there aren't more people using it than there are.

A fun way to stumble upon games online

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