Videogames
Closed out from electronic games, kids use their Skylander toys for chess.
Andrew McMillen, on what kind of game journalist you choose to be.
Josh Bycer writes about abstraction of player skill across game genres, arranged as a spectrum.
Two pieces which come recommended by The Border House today: Gears of War 3 and women and the case for making the Mass Effect movie a shade less generic and instantly forgettable.
Just in case you felt like raging at the patriarchy some more: Latoya Peterson’s got another indictment you’ll want to read.
And here’s a wicked neat Ico concept art gallery up at Edge.
Film
How does a film studio acquire the rights to a Reddit comment? Why are we making films based on Reddit comments?
Curios
So we all know that Colonel Vermon CaTaffy Libyan dictator Gadaffi has been killed. What you don’t know is what Hitler thinks about it.
SCIENCE!
Usually I find delivery room videos beyond squicky, but I make an exception for the universe giving birth to a new planet.
#Occupy
“This Occupation is its own demand.”
Elsewhere, superstar hacker weev speaks out about the movement. And cheese.
GOD DAMN IT
YOU BROKE THE RULES! (thanks, Ian)
Comments
Weev, seriously? Relentless self-publicist who sure used to like claiming he was part of the 1%?