Videogames
Let’s kick it all off with the Sunday Papers and This Week in Videogame Blogging, the latter written by Critical Distance’s newest writer, Katie Williams! Welcome, Katie!
Maria Bustillos presents us with an essay on gaming’s fantasies of death.
Bastion devs say there will be no DLC.
Reading/Writing
Here’s a piece from The New York Times about accuracy in speculative fiction.
Fandom
LA Weekly explains crossplay. On that note, here’s Jackie Chan dressed as Chun Li.
SCIENCE!
Today’s a good day for science articles– and pseudoscience too, so let’s get right to it.
First up, an eyebrow-raiser: testosterone makes female humans more interested in “things than people”. Uh… yeah.
Over to io9: Alasdair Wilkins reports on the human fear of creativity and our quantum brains. Lastly, what’s this star have to do with the key to the universe?
