Everywhere you look there’s another virtual world or game site coming to life. Today’s installments are Planet Cazmo, a new music themed virtual world from western-Massachusetts based Pileated Pictures, and YoYoGames from the UK.

Though Planet Cazmo is not yet open to the public I stumbled across the registration screen, signed up and logged right in without a hitch. There’s nobody in-world besides the random NPC just yet but the overall look and feel is very cool. Highly customizable avatar, good tunes and a fairly extensive virtual world from what I can see. Overall it’s also edgier and, though also browser based, manages to pump out a much larger screen area than Penquin or Habbo or Whyville. From the looks of it’s ready for action as soon as a few sponsors sign on. You can read more in this press release posted on VTOR earlier this year or go to the PlanetCazmo site to register for the Beta release.

YoYoGames promotes itself as the site “Where the world comes to play, make and share online casual games.” Though still in Beta, it’s obvious that YoYoGames has been around a good while longer, offering visitors a library of virtual parts, a wiki, forums and the underlying GameMaker engine which you can download from the site. Not at all unlike what Roblox and Scratch want to be when they grow up, but much further down the road. Let the games continue!