Don't get me wrong -- I prefer mucking around in a four-wheeler, as experienced in The Weather Channel Driving Game, and cracking nine irons into a stiff gale in The Weather Channel Golf Game, to actual work. And I'm willing to take the designers at their word when they promise, in a breathlessly worded press release, that "expert weather data" was integrated into each game. But throwing weather components into the video game mainstays of driving and golfing absolutely screams "branding" in a way that's likely to irk savvy online gamers. Subtlety, it seems, remains in short supply in the world of online gaming.