Quarrel

Fast-paced, instantly approachable, and considerably and considerately iterated on for the better part of a year, Quarrel is already set to be a game worth yelling about.

Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing 2009

Hard to tell from that picture what to expect from "Quarrel?"

Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing 2009

It'll be hard to tell from simply the screenshot above what to expect from Quarrel, and even if I then go on to explain that it's at heart a competitive word game, you might be forgiven for giving it the same pass as you rightly did a number of the lower-shelf family games that were released to no fanfare on Xbox Live Arcade this year.

Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing 2009

The Age of Quarrel has an endpoint: street justice.

Walk Hard | ATTACKERMAN 2008

The entry "`A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church'"

RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

Wood gives us what the best critics give us: bias, delivered in sentences full of, as Carmine Starnino puts it in the introduction to his excellent book of criticism A Lover's Quarrel Porcupine's Quill, 2004 "gusto, authority, mischief and melody."

Knocking Wood 2010

Quarrel as much as you want about Clinton triangulation: there is some merit to careful planning.

Video Postcript: Hillary Pats Obama On The Head, Says, "Yes, Dear" 2009

She returned to questions of the Holocaust — including “Who Owns Anne Frank?” — and other issues in her 2001 book of essays Quarrel and Quandary, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

Cynthia Ozick. 2009

The entry "`A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church'"

RELIGION Blog | The Dallas Morning News 2009

Quarrel as much as you want about Clinton triangulation: there is some merit to careful planning.

Video Postcript: Hillary Pats Obama On The Head, Says, "Yes, Dear" 2009