Infinite Lives

• Pixel Prospector – The Big List Of Indie Game Sites
  Whoa. (via superlevel.de’s @Fabu)
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency – Roland Barthes Reviews "Pac-Man."
  Cross-saving Mike Nowak’s (@n0wak) hilarious del.icio.us link.
• GameLife – Spooky Platformer Eversion Gets Polished Up for Steam
  Guilherme Töws, whom I know best as "Zaratustra" from IRC channels, now has a game on Steam! And while you can still grab the freeware ‘Eversion’ from his website, the US$5 download promises redesigned levels and better graphics. Hop to it!
• Numberless – Sight Unseen
  Scott Jon Siegel wonders: with HD televisions and cable services, three-dee tee-vee, the iPhone 4’s "Retina Display," and now the Nintendo 3DS, how is a company supposed to market a technology that the consumer cannot see until he is, well, actually seeing it?
• Lost Levels – Review: Colors
  Oh, man, I can’t believe I am only just reading this. I have always dreamed of somehow getting ahold of the source code for this game, slapping it on an SD card, and loading it right up on my beloved Gizmondo. As I understood it back in 2005, ‘Colors’ was meant to be one of two planned ARGs for the Gizmondo handheld device: using cellular network service and the gadget’s built-in GPS, you were supposed to basically wardrive around town until you found another player to brutally murder in-game—kind of like foursquare for Haters. (Or, OK, the idea of cell phone drive-by social gaming is actually pretty old and, I think, Swedish.) Anyway, apparently the solo play in ‘Colors’ is not too great. Oh, well! I guess I’ll just go back to looking for the Gizmondo source code for ‘Johnny Whatever’ instead.
• Drunken Moogle – The Rainbow Road Shot Challenge
  The best looking worst idea ever.
• GameLife – Next post UK’s Channel 4 Uses Games to Teach Teens Happiness
  Games for good.
• Artful Gamer – The Changing Nature of Gaming Interfaces
  Excellent read that elegantly conveys, ultimately, my own horror at touch screen devices. Here’s Chris Lepine’s footnote on button-mashing: "I am using a very special meaning of the word ‘repression’ that Merleau-Ponty introduces in his phenomenology of the body. ... For more details see Lawrence Hass’s book Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy, pp. 89-90."

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