What do you do when crazy golf has lost its lustre and bowling has become humdrum? Simple, you combine them into the most exciting game since polar bears invented cribbage! The aim of the game is simple; knock down as many of the ‘Pinguins’ as you can while navigating ten levels of snowdrifts, windmills, whales and other icy obstacles. Can you get a strike, or will you being going ‘spare?’

Best of all, if you don’t like the look of the Pinguins, you can swap their ugly mugs for pictures of your family and friends using Matmi’s new UStar technology, which we’re pretty sure is a first, unless there’s some other 3D browser game out there that not only lets you upload pictures from your hard drive, but from Facebook as well? If there is, it’s doing a pretty good job of hiding!

This is probably the most fun you’ll have this winter without taking your coat and mittens off!

Play today : http://facebook.matmi.com/tenpincrazygolfing/matmi.html Currently in BETA

Matmi just got a really great Christmas present from the prestigious Design Week Awards.  Only a month after the BIMA nomination, we’re in the short list for the Commerical Digital Design category for our redesign of Vimto’s UK website earlier this year.

We’re up against some tough competition and we’d love to tell you who (but the award shortlist isn’t arranged that way… ).  Joking aside, the Design Week Awards are a really big deal so it’s a real honour just to be nominated for this award. We’ve got our fingers crossed…. which is going to make the next few months tricky, as the winners aren’t announced until March!

If you fancy taking a peak at the site, check it out here and for more information on the Design Week Awards click here.

They say that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, in which case I guess we should be pretty flattered, because our award winning flash game Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow has been copied by a Russian iPhone developer and stuck on the App Store.

We’re assuming that Lemicosoft, who made the game Bad Santa, didn’t realise that Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow had been played by millions of people all over the world, and hoped that no one would notice that they ‘borrowed’ some parts of the game, even going as far as to copy the description and the music!

We got in touch with Lemicosoft and told them they were out of order, and to their credit, they were very apologetic, and agreed to take the app down from the App Store.  That doesn’t excuse them stealing it in the first place, but it goes at least a little way to making up for it.

The original – and best – iPhone version of Ho Ho Ho Yellow Snow, is available on the App Store right now.