• 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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• Boing Boing – My Little Pony flash game
  The ultimate labor of brony-love. Plus, mighty creepy-ass.
• Unreality – If Comedians Took on Video Games
  As always, there are no women in comedy, but these are pretty much spot-on. (via @nealsales)

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• Abandonia – Download Weird Dreams
  Good luck!
• YouTube – Amiga Longplay [113] Weird Dreams
• Retroaction – Weird and Wonderful World of Retrogaming: Weird Dreams
  This is a really wonderful retrospective.

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• KyozoKicks. – Custom Mirrors Edge Converse
  Nick Tonks’ latest customized sneakers are hot as hell.

• Arcade Heroes – TRON Pinball and more from the NW Pinball & Gameroom Show
  IT LIVES

• Geek Crafts – Reader Submission: Light Up Portal Sentry Turret Plush
  I don’t know a whole lot about sewing and stuffing plush toys, but I’ll wager that it isn’t the easiest thing to manufacture an elongated egg out of fleece. Just a hunch. Anyway, deviantartist MelloReflections made this handsome stuffed Portal turret. He lights up when you hug him! (And he doesn’t blame you.)
• Joystiq – Here’s how the 3DS does Game Boy emulation
  Here’s a REAL LIVE VIDEO of J.C. Fletcher demonstrating Super Mario Land on the Nintendo 3DS. You can toggle the screen between Pea Soup View, Stark Black and White View, and "a little bit recessed." Very nice.
• Touch Arcade – Will Wright Planning To Do A Smartphone / Tablet Game
  The game, based on a story by Bruce Sterling, will be playable across social networks and smartphones.
• IndieGames.com – Kinect-Enabled Minecraft Coming to Xbox 360
  E3 NEWS: Maybe Sony made good by announcing its Vita handheld, but this news was really the belle of yesterday’s ball.
• The Escapist – News: Leisure Suit Larry Returns Later This Year
  Adventure gamers, rejoice! After two abominable (and contemptibly crass) attempts to reanimate the franchise, Larry himself returns—and this time with creator Al Lowe!—in a remake of his original Epic Troll, Land of the Lounge Lizards.

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• rossum’s posterous – A Little Atari 810 Disk Drive
  Just amazing: "A tiny working model of a retro computing icon offers a blend of nostalgia and silliness." Via Superlevel, Retro Thing, Laughing Squid, Boing Boing, and MAKE Magazine (sorry, I just started using Fever), so we can pretty much agree there’s a genuine nerdgasm here.

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• YouTube – iJustine’s Hot Online Date
  3:29: "...And I was left with my MUSKET…!" Sorry, it’s just that I’m into really dumb shit.
• joe rybicki dot com – Scandal in Game Reviewing!
  "In closing, I’ll say this: It’s fun to bash on The Man; it just doesn’t always make a whole lot of sense. Also, this sort of thing is news because it’s the exception, not the norm. Also, I’m rather hungry."
• GameSetWatch – Curse Of Monkey Island As A Game Boy Demake
  Wow!
• The Game Critique – Horror Games – Top 25
  The Gameranx list itself is great, with ‘Amber: Journeys Beyond,’ ‘The Dark Eye,’ ‘Fatal Frame II,’ and ‘Amnesia’ all represented alongside classic titles. Inside the link, writer Eric Swain explains his ranking process.
• Fashionably Geek – Mario Kart IRL [Cosplay]
• Best Week Ever – Play George Plimpton’s Video Falconry Online (It’s Plimptastic!)
  Oh, all right. But only for you, Tom Fulp.

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• Sugoi – Dagens bild – En välbehövlig tupplur
  A new interpretation of ‘Super Mario Galaxy,’ by illustrator Nicole Gustafsson.
• GameSetWatch – From Adventure To Mass Effect: Timeline For Western Action RPGs
  Hardcore Gaming 101, the Best Videogames Website to Harness the Spirit and Verve of 1999 Internet, has produced another winning retrospective.

• Fashionably Geek – Fallout 3 Pip Boy 3000 Arm-Mounted iPhone Dock
  Marvel, will you, at this one-of-a-kind iPhone holder-thingie modeled after Fallout 3’s GUI!

• My Food Looks Funny – Minecraft Brunch
  Somewhere in this photo, there are cubes of French toast.

• Fashionably Geek – Minecraft Cosplay
  Just a step above cardboard robots, perhaps, but only a step below Katamari Damacy cosplay. So there.

• Arcade Heroes – New arcade in San Francisco: South Town Arcade
  San Francisco! You can play Tetris the Grand Master 3 in an honest-to-god arcade! THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE

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• giantmecha – Parents upset about adoption in Portal 2
  "RATED E FOR EVERYBODY EXCEPT FOR ORPHANS"

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• Superlevel – Goldfish – We Come Together
  This could be the dorkiest video I’ve ever watched, but it has style to spare.

• GameSetWatch – Doctor Who x Doctor Octoroc SNES Intro
  New Fun Hypothetical: Modern-day Doctor Who in 16-bit

• Tiny Cartridge – Sunglasses-wearing badasses
  Paul Robertson makes Squirtles look tough
• Official Portal 2 Website – Music
  Portal 2 Soundtrack, Volume I: free to download! Plus, ringtones for iPhone and Android.
• MAKE Magazine – Honduran High Schooler’s Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Interface
  Teen’s electrooculography prototype a low-cost alternative for people with physical disabilities
Brandonnn – A World Within (by againstbound)
Ah! What I would do to have this on my living room wall! But I guess it’s only a T-shirt.

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• Reddit – Against all odds I’ve yet to be banned from City of Heroes
  Here’s a superhero you should avoid on White Pants Days, ladies! Its creator, longtime City of Heroes player Scott "Sharkey" Sharkey, tweets: "Who has two thumbs and frontpages Reddit with stupid bullshit he posts while drunk at 1AM?" Good lord, Reddit. I mean, really.

  Don’t you think Sharkey should put together a whole City of Heroes Field Guide? He could revisit all his old superheroes, too, like Darth Underpants, Disco Fett, Inside-Out Girl, Ground Chuck, Grannyatrix, and Proofreader. This is a thing we would want to see, right?

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• Reddit – Port of the Week #51 – Psychonauts
  The PC version of ‘Psychonauts,’ flawlessly (?) ported for Mac gamers!
• IndieGames.com – Opinion: The Gods Of Goo
  Michael Rose on ‘World of Goo’: "It’s a belief that keeps me living purposefully, that makes sense of the world, and that gives me hope for the future. But sometimes I wonder if this belief places me squarely in the midst of a cruel game, wherein I am merely a pawn, used for the sadistic purposes of a cruel God."
• Arcade Heroes – Teaser videos for TRON Pinball
  Whoa, hey now! Has Stern been hard at work on a licensed Tron pinball machine? This YouTube video certainly suggests so.
• Digital Tools – CityHero: Real-urban gaming for iPhone
  Its developers describe the app as a mix between Foursquare, Sim City, and Monopoly. Hmm!
• The Hairpin – Nine Things to Name Your Oregon Trail Family
  This is just horrible.

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• Retropoly – The Pit: Super Mario Bros.
  "Das passiert, wenn Mario in einen Abgrund fällt"

• GamOvr – Biker Samus
  Badass.

• The sketch blog of Mads Herman – Sci Fi Scummin’
  Fun Hypothetical: Duncan Jones’ ‘Moon’ as a LucasArts game (via Kyozo Kicks)

• Wonderland – World of Geekcraft
  "Geek meets craft in this fun collection of 25 kooky projects for geeks of any affiliation, from D&D dice earrings, Star Trek pillows, and Super Mario cross-stitch to Star Wars terrariums, a Morse code quilt, and much more!"

• Fashionably Geek – Sesame Street Fighter
  Oh, my gosh! It’s almost TOO MUCH

• Back of the Cereal Box – Adolescent Wet Dream Gone Wrong: The Video Game
  ‘Drop Rock Hora Hora’ and its misleading box art

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• Waxy.org – Metagames: Games About Games
  I managed to miss this the first three times I saw the link, but never again! A catalog of games-about-games, enumerated by the Internet’s Andy Baio.
• LA Weekly – A History of Trollface
  Also titled "Trollface Artist Carlos Ramirez Talks 4chan, Incredible Hulk and Viral Fame," which is great for SEO but not very poetic
• McSweeney’s – April Fools’ Day Pranks to Play On an Unemployed 20-Something Male Who Still Lives at Home With His Parents.
  Hurr hurr, I laughed at this a whole bunch
• The Daily Nail – The Wind Beneath My Tiny Wings
  A ‘Tiny Wings’ -inspired manicure! (via the comments at If Style Could Kill)

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• The Rumpus Interview With Mike Rosenthal
  The Rumpus talks with one of the makers of the ‘Waiting for Godot’ video game.
• The Bygone Bureau – The Affair to Remember
  Kevin Nguyen saves his files. He compulsively presses command-S. What is he scared of? What is worth holding onto?
• NYTimes.com – Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You
  We are all terrified of our own phones.
• Gawker – The Greatest Fake Girlfriend Story Ever Told
  Updates galore! This is so crazy!
• Xiaxue.blogspot.com – On the Internet, nobody knows you’re YOUR OWN IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND
  I tweaked the link’s title a little bit, but only because I worry I’ll have to trick you readers (??) into clicking on it. Trust me, it’s worthwhile.

  Usually cyberdrama is neither hilarious nor uplifting. But some hot Internet girl I’ve never heard of (sorry?) has turned into a one-woman Smoking Gun. I would not dare mess with her.

  And this isn’t games-related, no, but since I’m trying to provide more reading material about gender, identity, avatars, and HILARITY, this passes my test.

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• Jude Buffum – Painting with Pixels at GDC 2011
  Buffum’s installation at GDC.
• The Rumpus Interview With Peter Smith And Charlie Hoey, The Brains Behind The Great Gatsby Game
  I cannot believe the Rumpus did this…!
• Magical Wasteland – Why We Don’t Have Female Characters
  "Women are difficult to model because they have—they’re sort of put together—well, let me put it this way: male bone structure is mostly made up of ninety-degree angles. Right? Maybe a couple forty-fives here and there. But it’s simple, and that makes it easy. I guess I shouldn’t say ‘easy,’ but I mean more straightforward."
• The Hairpin – Throw This Party: Game Night
  The Hairpin’s Katie Walsh on dragging your friends into an evening of board games, card trysts, and Pictionary.

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