Infinite Lives

• CNN.com – Why most people don’t finish video games
  When I was 11, my mother actually wouldn’t ALLOW me to start a new game until I’d finished the last one. (I think I lied to her about finishing a game, twice.)
• BuzzFeed – Flames Dancing To Zelda Theme Music
  Your favorite Nintendo theme music, with wiggling flames keeping time
• Gamma Squad – Classic Video Games As Dramatic Plays
  ‘Theater of the Arcade’ at the FringeNYC Festival.

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• Kloonigames – Crayon Physics Deluxe is now available for Mac and Linux
  YYEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Play This Thing! – Inside the Haiti Earthquake
  A fair critique of the playability of ‘Inside the Haiti Earthquake,’ an award-winning "newsgame."
• IndieGames.com – Indie Game Site GameTunnel Relaunched
  Do you know how I found out about GameTunnel’s relaunch? THROUGH PROJECT WONDERFUL. I was like, "Oh, look, I can run a new ad from… GameTunnel? Whoa." I should add that this redesign is aytch oh tee tee, HOT, all electric apple and slippery menus.

  Also worth noting: indie developers can submit their games for review. Like, there’s an actual spot to do that, right in the navigation header. I love that.
• Kotaku – Retro Game Master
  Eh? Kotaku.com has been covering the everloving Jehoshaphat out of ‘Retro Game Master’ (née Game Center CX) all summer, and I was none the wiser! Corrected.
• Wired Magazine – Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique
  "Technoculture critic and former Wired contributor Erik Davis is concerned about the proliferation of reviews, too. ‘Our culture is afflicted with knowingness,’ he says. ‘We exalt in being able to know as much as possible. And that’s great on many levels. But we’re forgetting the pleasures of not knowing. I’m no Luddite, but we’ve started replacing actual experience with someone else’s already digested knowledge.’"

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