ExtZy, Z/Yen’s market prediction game, has been revamped! It now features a tag cloud, a new game host, many new tantalising stocks and amazing prizes.

The blog, now written by Leo Fishman, aka the Empress of ExtZy, brings you a bi-monthly update of the latest featurettes and gizmos available. The tag cloud (available for each leader board) provides a neat visualisation of three variables for the most popular stocks: market capitalisation, dividends and price.

All you need to do is register here and start building a portfolio. Unlike the credit-scrunched real financial system, when you first log in you receive a credit line of 1000 units (called Zoints) to purchase stocks in web-pages (entities) that you think will lead to a bull market. Start trading and pit yourself against the other players in our virtual floor!

Ben Morris, aka the Game Lord, has recently added 18 cricket county shares which are already being avidly traded by some early birds ahead of the expected summer surge. There are even 245 country shares available, so now you can ‘own’ a little virtual piece of Peru, Portugal or Pakistan.

Of course there are prizes to be won – such as handy Z/Yen chopsticks, a trip on the Lady Daphne or a £300 voucher for a jolly useful 32GB iPod Touch. Check it out at www.extzy.net and you could be checking in some super prizes!