Big business, we're often told by excitable TV reporters, is a shark-eat-shark world of tense manouverings and fragile loyalties. Why, then, do our eyelids droop at the mere mention of a budget forecast?



Bored Meeting, a downloadable party game for Xbox 360, is probably the most fun you'll ever have in a conference chamber (albeit a virtual one).

Dollar signs flow out of money bags. Players draw arrows with their board markers to funnel the funds towards their goals. You'll also have to deal with budget cuts, represented by board erasers, which take a chunk out of your bottom line: direct these to other players' goals to put them in the red.

Bored Meeting is available as a free trial on Xbox Live. You can download the full version for 400 Microsoft Points (three or four quid). Check out the screens below.