ffwd: Linklog

Archive.org: Skruvmejsel - L8 Mas-Q [XD-NETS-001] (From the great X-Dump collective, weeird/groovy CC-licensed jazzy skronk - a new favorite. )

SirBruce's E3 MMOG report (The MMOG Chart creator is a sage cove.)

Archive.org: 'Chiptunes: ZX Spectrum Music' radio show (Here's more info - the ZX Spectrum has just the oddest clatter-y sound.)

Milieu net.label review weblog (Touches on much of the glitchier/ambienter stuff, but good net.label reviews in English? Hurrah.)

RedKeyRedDoor: Manic Miner playable on the iPod (After some extreme Linux-related hacking, mind you.)

Waxy.org: Andy Baio's top E3 underdogs (Good list - a number of these are on my E3 faves.)

Akkit.org: Nintendo DS demos given out wirelessly at E3 (You can beam 'em to your DS with a multiboot prog, if you have the right wireless card - includes Electroplankton, Meteos demos.)

eBay: Gorgeous '70s Commodore LED watch (Just shopping for watches, and I've fallen in love - shame that bidding is going so high.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Looking down the Colorado River from the dam (Not sure how the workers park their cars down there.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Hoover Dam itself (You know, this may seem obvious, but it's pretty big.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: looking toward Lake Mead from the Hoover Dam (You can see, by the white marks on the shore, how drought-affected the lake is.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: the Fremont Street Experience (Nothing like a little neon to soothe the soul.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Zzyzx Road turn-off (Who would have guessed that it's the alphabetically last U.S. place name?)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Truck for hauling borates (These specialist mining trucks are pretty darn big.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: the wondrous Borax visitor center (That's right, the Borax visitor center - apparently, borates are important - they have nice coloring books too.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Borax mining operations, Mojave Desert (A good location for a Bond movie set-piece?)

Shifted Librarian discusses a tech summit on gaming and libraries ('You haven't lived until you've seen a roomful of librarians competing against each other in Mario Kart and DDR!')

Metropolis Tokyo on the Blythe doll phenomenon (It's all about the 'Elegant Gothic Lolita' Blythe variants - via Jean Snow.)

Elektroblef compiles their favorites from my 2004 netlabel best-of (Compilation is here, my list is here, Elektroblef also compiles latest Monotonik goodness, Lukas Nystrand genius, Hippocampiness.)

Free Software Magazine article on netlabels. (A really good overview of the scene for the uninitiated.)

Monotonik: Planet Boelex - 'Second Thoughts EP' (Latest CC-licensed music release from my netlabel - super-smooth Finnish idm.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Heading out into the Mojave desert (Somewhere in the vicinity of bat country.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Mysterious plane cloning @ Mojave Airport (Or more properly, the Mojave Spaceport - no sign of SpaceShipOne, though.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Choo Choo train sighting @ I-5 (It's Kylie [get well soon!], doing The Locomotion!)

Vegas Trip photoblog: More Pacheco Pass-iness (Almost at I-5 - foreground blurred as we approach 88mph.)

Vegas Trip photoblog: Across the Pacheco Pass to I-5 (Sun water interface plus plus.)

'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold' (Road trip to Vegas time! Photos, updates soon.)

Wired News on 'Salon's balancing act' (Are they writing history or consigning themselves to search engine history? Or both?)

TIGSource: Sexiest indie gamer of all time announced (Oh my, what a dish.)

Shacknews on classic game ads (Hey, Sega, stop hatin' on our canine friends!)

MP3NewsWire: 'Sony PSP Movie Sales Strong' ('Two Sony [UMD] titles have hit the 100,000 mark in unit sales, Resident Evil 2 and House of the Flying Daggers.')

CNN Money: 'Smoke, mirrors and the next generation' (Mr. Morris is on the money, as per usual.)

IGN announces 'IGN Live' 'lifestyle entertainment experience' (...'covering videogames, action sports, cars, music, movies and gear/consumer electronics.' Oh my.)

GameSpy: Top 25 games of E3 (Always fun to peruse, poke at.)

Gamecloud: 'E3 Awards - Do They Really Mean Anything?' (Bigwigs say maybe, maybe not.)

Korea Times: Localizing Games From Abroad ('Need for Speed: Underground Rivals has manuals and instructions translated into Korean and contains added domestic cars.')

Kieron Gillen: PC Gamer 'Journey Into The Cradle' PDF (A ten-page magazine dissection of a single Thief: Deadly Shadows game level - v.interesting.)

GamersWithJobs: 'Why I Love Derek Smart' (A paean to a forgotten gaming age.)

GamerDad: 'Going Casual Part II' (The second part of an experiment looking at E3 from a non-hardcore news source POV - very interesting.)

Gamasutra: Feature: 'GDCTV: Will Wright - The Future Of Content' (Woohoo, Will Wright's GDC 'Spore' talk, finally available for streaming.)

Press release: Lawsuit filed against 'Ragnarok Online' makers Gravity Co., Ltd (Relates to U.S. stock sold this year: 'The Complaint alleges that the Registration Statement/Prospectus included positive statements concerning Gravity's growth prospects and demand for its products.' )

Boohbah.com: 'Boohbah Zone' (Holy psychedelic kids series Flash insanity, Batman!)

NTSC-UK reviews Electroplankton (Plus provides handy translation guide for early adopters.)

BitTorrent.com search for Legaltorrents (Pity most searches won't be so, uhm, legal.)

Laundry Sessions: Transmedia World - Republic Commando ('I wasn't the hero of the story, but part of the Star Wars story had become my own.')

Terra Nova on Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO (Happiest faux-place on virtual Earth!)

DIYGames' Independent Adventuring - April 2005 (In particular, The Great Stroke-Off! looks pretty goofy-neat.)

1UP's Best of E3 2005 game lists (Survey the most interesting E3 stuff at a glance.)

Image: G4's largely satirical print ad for possible advertisers (I can't seem to locate my bar code - via QT3.)

E!: Jimmy Kimmel playing Jay Leno in Michael Jackson tour dramatization (Is there no hope for humanity? Via Defamer.)

Comics Reporter: 'Alan Moore Pulls LOEG III from DC' (Moore's difficult relationship with publishers continues.)

Prix Ars Electronica 2005 winners (These are sometimes a little high-art, but good to see Brad Bird winning, and BitTorrent got a special prize.)

Battelle: 'MSN Virtual Earth' announced (Includes map overlays, plus some 45 degree views (oo, not just overhead!) Color me geeked out.)

IC: Alien Hominid GBA version confirmed for Europe (The Behemoth continues to get a lot of press, which is great news.)

TIGSource on Ninja Sticks indie game (Using Garage Games' Torque Engine, neat.)

E&P: 'Calvin and Hobbes' Returning to Newspapers -- Sort Of (Just 'best of' strips, but Bill Watterson will answer questions! By tapping his hoof!)

Music Thing: Interviewing the 'Intel Inside' chime creator (His KLF-inspired one-hit wonder was Edelweiss' 'Bring Me Edelweiss', of course.)

Maverick Media's 'viral' campaign for Football Manager 2006 game (Here's another follow-up, too - fun stuff.)

Defamer: Photoblogging Tom Cruise On Oprah (When does 'ebullient' border on 'psychotic'?)

Clel's Place: Eli's Software Encyclopedia for sale (Some debate on quality/worth, but definitely a rare remaining trove.)

IC: 'Gamer Br' video game documentary (It's new on LegalTorrents, CC-licensed, kinda cool, and game-related, yay.)

Idle Thumbs on PC action-adventure game Metronome ('By recording sounds of throughout Metronome and then playing them back at relevant characters or areas... you will be able to make progress through the city.' Very neat.)

Wired: Tecmo settles with Ninja Gaiden hackers (But 'if the pair turned over NinjaHacker's user list, a new round of lawsuits could follow'?)

InsertCredit: Blasteroids, Manic Miner, Doom Miniatures (Another RKRD-linked piece of goodness I wrote up for IC.)

Playphoria: 'In Space, No One Can Hear You Swear' (A little old, but intriguingly claims that Lifeline wasn't voice-tuned for girls.)

ARGN: E3 Wrap-Up For Alternate Reality Games ('Art of the Heist' is getting almost under-reported, apart from this excellent round-up.)

Yahoo/AP: Cannes Film Festival winners (More importantly, Yahoo's auto-generated 'related items' link seems to think the 'going-to-college' guy won 'Best Actor', woops.)

Reality Blurred: Summer, Fall reality TV line-up in U.S. (From Rock Star: INXS, to Tommy Lee Goes To College.)

UK Guardian: Terry Gilliam interviewed at Cannes (Brothers Grimm should be delightfully deranged, no? Via Gaiman.)

GameTap official preview video (The _excellent_ Red Key Red Door blog, which I didn't realize had returned, has a useful summary with some more game names.)

Flickr: SNK's slightly Engrish E3 control explanation (Supper attack! The IC Flickr group also has We Love Katamari poster art from the show.)

Archive.org: Blaze Dem - 'Martial World / Dubness Of This Creation' (Any net.label with a rastafarian Pac-Man logo is good by me.)

Film Stew: Johnny Depp, Withnail And I director teaming for Hunter Thompson film adaptation (A return to bat country?)

GotFuturama: Billy West says straight-to-DVD Futurama films possible (Welcome to the DVD sales-led woooorld of tomorrow!)

East Bay Express: Alex Handy's cover article on 4orty 2wo Entertainment (We ran Alex's full-length interview in Game Developer, he's also done an ARG based around it.)

E3 Expo (Why I've been slow on the update - normal service will resume tomorrow!)

Gamasutra: E3 Report: The Path to Creating AAA Games (Free reg. req. - mm, Wright, Mizuguchi.)

Gamasutra: E3 Report: Sneak Peeks - The Godfather, Peter Jackson's King Kong and The Sequel To The Call Of Duty (Free reg. req. - some neat games here - King Kong seems especially cool.)

Press release: Konami bringing Beatmania to PS2 in 2006 (Great news - one of the rhythm game classics finally gets a U.S. release.)

Gamasutra: 'Turner Announces Licensees For GameTap Subscription Service' (Saw GameTap yesterday, and it really does look great.)

Gamasutra: 'E3 Report: Pitching Update: How to Give Your Game Idea Legs' (Free reg. req. - an interesting session from the E3 dev track.)

Gamasutra: 'E3 Report: Education Arcade - Case Studies: Civilization' (Free reg. req. - almost nobody else covered this for the press.)

1UP previews New Super Mario Bros for DS (It's like Mario Bros - but new!)

Yahoo/Reuters on Morgan Spurlock's TV show on FX, '30 Days' ('A television series that places people in unfamiliar social circumstances.' Like E3.)

GameCloud: Speakeasy's new consumer game site (Here's the info - JCal on board, has handed CG Online over to the v.irreverent Matt Gallant.)

Archive.org: Lackluster Live at Temple Bar Music Centre, 26th of March 2005 (Longtime friend/Monotonik guy, excellent Dublin live gig done w/Ableton Live.)

GDCTV: Masaya Matsuura's 'The Near Future of Media Distribution' (Another interesting GDC 2005 lecture, Parappa's Matsuura on alt. distribution.)

G4: 'Theme From E3 on G4' music video (Hurray for Captain Silly!)

Games.Net: IDG's new uber-gaming site (A tad confusing, to say the least - though I did notice IDG property GamerHelp is GameFAQ-izing BradyGames guides - odd.)

UKResistance covering E3 'live' from UK ('We do not want to read another report about how AMAZING!! the PS3 is or how it OUTCLASSED!!! the XBOX 360. Don't you remember the PS1 launch? Have you learnt nothing?')

TIGSource: Interview with Doukutsu Monotagari creator Pixel (Amazing game, great interview.)

Pig Magazine: Nigo/A Bathing Ape interview (The Pharrell Williams hook-up is doing well for him in the U.S.)

Fragdolls UK now recruiting (First, North America, next - the world!)

BoingBoing: More on Michelle Delio's disputed Technology Review articles (Sources, disputes, ad infinitum.)

Xbox 360 to get Final Fantasy XI, other Square titles (Also 'backward-compatible with top- selling Xbox games', whatever that means - here's the PS3 press release to compare and contrast.)

IC: XBL Arcade demo for Mutant Storm (Definitely worth picking up OXM this month - the Destroy All Humans demo is darn fun, too, though way too short.)

Official site for Garnier 'Manga Head' styling gel ('Mess your hair, manga style!' Not a joke.)

Neon FM: another DDR-style U.S.-created arcade game (Oo, Freezepop! Looks like it has a custom cabinet, so will perhaps avoid Roxor's recent issues.)

OECD Report: 'Digital Broadband Content: The online computer and video gaming industry' (.PDF) (Yes, that OECD - good report, though - via Lessig.)

Time.com: 'On the Beach With Dave Chappelle' (He's not mad, sad, or dangerous to know, just chilling?)

DVD Talk review: 'The Fearless Freaks (The Wondrously Improbable Story of The Flaming Lips)' (As mentioned before, Shout Factory is a great DVD/music label, this doc looks to be well worth checking out.)

Bonhams Auctioneers: Forthcoming sales directory (After MeFi pointed out the Chuck Barris car collection, I realized there's all kinds of other great objects to browse/dream about.)

Press Release: Future buys Cheatplanet.com (From a coupla weeks back - but a non-spectacular GameFAQs clone for $8.5 million? Future's website expansion plans get murkier and murkier.)

Ifilm: M83 - 'Don't Save Us From The Flames' music video (Gorgeous song, and an oddly beautiful, evocative video.)

GameSpot: Greg Kasavin talks to Turner's Blake Lewin about Gametap (Missed this, I'm still rabidly excited about Gametap, more info at E3.)

Phlow Magazine: Netaudio player v1.0 (A neat Flash-based way to listen to CC-licensed netlabel goodness.)

NGJ makes it to French culture magazines (Tim Ro(d)gers, Jane Pinckard, other 'trendsetters' - from Chronic Art magazine, via IC forums.)

Wired News: 'MTV Pimps Xbox 360' (Chris Kohler gets skeptical, Wired itself runs its June issue Xbox 360 piece - interesting quotes from Ballmer on his original Xbox skepticism.)

TIGSource: 'Project Nero' (Using adaptive AI in an indie university game project - neat.)

Gamasutra: Measurement Techniques For Game Designers (Dayjob, no reg. req., ex-Lionhead and current Sony London designer talks about measuring design concepts.)

Victoly wiki-styled game high score site (Neat idea!)

Geek on Stun: HD Allard (Extreme makeover pictures astound, no? Via The-Inbetween.)

'Be A Game Designer' television ad (.MPG) (Just in case you wondered what designers -really- do - via QT3.)

1UP: Midway Arcade Treasures 3 preview (A little mixed, but hey, includes S.T.U.N. Runner.)

BBC: John Cleese writing next Aardman film (It's about 'pre-historic culture clash', apparently. Don't mention the war!)

Broadcasting & Cable: 'Let the Games Begin' (On the cable companies getting into the game space - via Paid Content.)

Kempa.com: 'Vinyl video' (Another OCD research marvel from the boy Kempa.)

InsertCredit: Agetec's bold E3 statement (The Anti Booth Babes a PR stunt that's marginally more insulting than actual booth babes? Never!)

Eurogamer: List/details of all announced Xbox 360 titles (An excellent primer.)

Game Informer's Gears Of War cover, two screenshots (Seems like more of a killer app than, say, PD0, though further off in terms of release date.)

Xbox.com: Xbox 360 music visualizers done by... ('We're really excited about our visualizers. They were done by Jeff Minter at Llamasoft.' Go Yak!)

MTV.com: Xbox 360 exclusive trailers (Some are very very short, horrible WMP9 DRM, too - but check Gears Of War (wow, Unreal Engine 3), Ghost Recon 3, Project Gotham Racing 3 - these impress.)

1UP/EGM: Perfect Dark Zero exclusive preview (Perhaps a little underwhelming, thus far.)

Improbable Research: 'The Dead Grandmother / Exam Syndrome' (Empirically proving the tragic effect of finals on senior relatives.)

Flash game o' the day: Bow man' (Sharp object impaling fun! Via Piyokun.)

GameSpot: Super in-depth Xbox 360 feature (Kasavin says: 'What I've seen of the games thus far has me almost completely unimpressed.' Also coverage at GameSpy, on IGN, plus the OurColony.net video - a must see, not the same as the MTV special.)

Kotaku: Xbox 360 hype hilarity ('The next-gen console is a tower of chilled white and chrome accents wrapped around a heart of graphics-pumping, teraflop-churning gaming goodness.' ZERG RUSH! Also some good info here.)

Yahoo Auctions JP: running_free86's auctions (It's not the price you get, it's how 'differently' you display it - some cool, some... ew. Via Fort90.)

Gamasutra: 'Konami Files Lawsuit Against Roxor Over Dance Game' (Interesting to see litigation here - Roxor also still a great name for a company.)

The Futon Critic: Fox's 2005-2006 season pilots (Including Bones, with David Boreanaz, a show called Deviant Behavior involving the San Francisco PD’s Deviant Crime Unit (!), Adam Baldwin in The Inside, a used-car sitcom co-starring Dave Attell (?!) - via Whedonesque.)

Wonderland: 'Luckily the PSP doesn't run Windows' (Not quite an embarassing BSOD, but still tres amusant.)

Rossignol: 'Return of the Podhouse' (Hurrah for futuristic petal-like '60s French architecture, I say.)

Tim Follin opens new official website (Follin is the extremely genius, extremely reclusive game musician I set up a site for a few years back.)

Broken Toys: Blogging about no gaming blogs ('THIS SITE IS REALLY ABOUT MY CAT.')

Gamespot: 'Prey' Q&A (Plus some screenshots - the Doom III engine is pretty.)

Overcompensating: 'The Big Damacy' (OK, I'm officially bored of the KataDama phenomenon. Via Toastyfrog.)

PR: Sony Online launches PSP puzzle, racing games (This is somewhat odd - Sony Online is a 'rival' publisher to SCEA over all genres now?)

Xbox.com: Precise celeb head-count for Xbox 360 launch party (Yay for the unlikeliness of C.C. Deville of Poison, Joseph Fiennes.)

Yahoo/AP: Bachelorette's Trista, Seinfeld's J.Peterman to star on ballroom dancing reality show (Yes, we know it was big in the U.K., but... ohdear.)

Shrapnel Games: 'The Falklands War: 1982 In Final Testing.' (Here's the product page - certainly an interesting subject for a hardcore PC sim-strategy game.)

Bum Lee: Deanimator Flash game (Not only based on Lovecraft, but with a fittingly artful sense of panic.)

UK Resistance: 'Anonymous games industry slagging begins' (This is, indeed, a good vitriolicity of slag.)

Insert Credit: E3's We LOVE Katamari ball (The highlight of E3! 'Those representing the Prince also have full right to decline any item.')

GameSpot: 'Spot On: The man who cried Wolfe' (More NGJ buzz/anti-buzz. Also quoting... Commander Zorg? Right.)

Nich Maragos discusses changes to his GameSpy Donkey Konga 2 review (Nich does great work for us at Gamasutra, and I hope this doesn't affect his non-Gama work. UPDATE: John Keefer @ GameSpy replies, apparently no sinister forces at work.)

Soda semi-recommendation: Ramune Japanese soda (The glass marble is great - the drink itself is sweet, but not spectacular.)

Canada.com: 'Mr. Floatie' protests sewage dumping (A jaunty pirate hat and toilet paper business cards is all you need to make a splash - via Fortean Times.)

Private Eye: Lookalikes, Issue 1131 (Labour party/Kraftwerk particularly inspired.)

Video-Fenky digs out obscure Xbox/GameCube launch magazines (System Specs! Peripherals! Miyamoto!)

Eurogamer previews Capcom's very odd Killer 7 ('In Killer 7, all you have to do to move is hit the A button to run and B to turn round. That's it.')

Interfax: Russian astrologer wins damages against NASA for 'emotional damage' (That'll be 8.71 billion rubles for killing the comet - just don't hurt the man in the moon! Via Improbable Research.)

Gamasutra: 'GDCTV: Rolling the Dice - The Risks and Rewards of Developing Katamari Damacy' (Brief free registration required, but the full 60-minute GDC lecture from the Katamari creator, with hand puppets.)

Gelf Magazine interviews Adam Penenberg regarding the Delio affair (Perhaps the coda to this particular affair?)

Press release: Yahoo! Premieres Yahoo! Music Unlimited ($4.99 a month for all you can eat streaming isn't bad, depending on the song selection.)

LegalTorrents: 'G-Town Church Sampling Project - WAV Version' (421mb .torrent) (Recorded in his local church in Grebbestad, Sweden by music producer Tobias Marberger, lots of amazing-quality CC-licensed samples - percussion, mandolin, flute, etc, etc.)

GameSpy: 'Have Game Mags Grown Up?' (The power of nostalgia, guv'nor.)

Official Mr. Clean forums (Includes people wooing Mr.Clean, troll called 'ihatemrclean' - all human life is here! Via Cifaldi/SA forums.)

Game-Science: PSP sales to date in Japan (Poor Lumines, Wipeout Pure! Also see DS sales to date.)

Loonyblog: James Purefoy replaced by Hugo Weaving in Alan Moore's 'V For Vendetta' (As Jason points out, they may not even have to re-shoot, thanks to the lead character appearing in a mask.)

Danny O'Brien's EFF miniLinks (It's like... some kind of... socially responsible linkblog!)

Defamer liveblogs The Huffington Post, for 16 minutes, at least (Still, Larry David and John Cusack, eh?)

Wired's comments on the Michelle Delio sourcing controversy (Gelf magazine follows up - a deal, but not a Glass-size deal.)

Joel Stein @ LA Times on Sesame Street (' More harrowing still, I saw Oscar, who is also voiced by [Carroll] Spinney, flirt openly with Alicia Keys.')

Gamasutra: 'The Rise Of ARGs' (Dayjob, _no_ reg req, yay! Adrian Hon of 'hot' ARG Perplex City talks about the alternate reality game phenomenon.)

Soda recommendation: Fukola Cola (Despite being from the Black Lemonade-totin' Skeleteens, who also brew insanity like The Drink, this is delicious, slightly tangy sugarcane cola - recommended.)

SA Forums: Star Wars Episode III merchandising goes too far (First the lawn sprinkler, and now this! Haw. Via Cifaldi.)

IGN: Ivan Sulic stomps all over the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith game (Sulic is fond of the gonzo, this is an attack dog masquerading as a review - be interesting to see how other outlets rate the game.)

VGOmbudsman: Next-gen.biz launching in June (Hmm, looks like a Gamasutra/GI.biz/GameDaily.biz competitor.)

Monotonik: Kplecraft - KNMS-001 [mtk146] (Latest CC-licensed album release on my netlabel, 'a deliciously alternative blend of Game Boy bleep and jazz-techno improvisation.')

Avatar o' the day: Zangief, kiddie interface (Oh my. Via Neo-Geo.com forums.)

IGN Cube: O~3 bringing out Chaos Field shmup for GameCube (IGN says Q3, but I think they mean Alien Hominid publisher O~3 - here's a good Dreamcast review, and IGN's GC version impressions - via Click-Stick.)

The Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip (Appears in the New York Press, among others - macabre Far Side-ish surrealism - via Jon.)

Apple: 'Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire' trailer (.MOV) (I choose what is easy! Via The Leaky Cauldron, which also has trailer/book comparisons.)

Scene.org best of demo-scene awards for 2004 (Missed these, but they're an excellent guide to what those crazy bedroom coders are still up to.)

Soda non-recommendation: Pangleheimers Spicy Hot Ginger Ale (Oh my god. If you like spicy drinks, then have at it, but I couldn't finish this - tangy but insanely hot.)

Yahoo:AP on 'Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession' IFC documentary (Airs Monday, sounds like it's worth checking out.)

Engadget: First Xbox360 actual hardware picture, from celebrity-only L.A. unveiling (Cease and desist coming in about... half an hour?)

Gamasutra: 'Go To Synesthesia… Jake Kazdal’s Journey Through The Heart Of Rez' (Free reg. req., dayjob, some fascinating, semi-voyeuristic inside info.)

Boston Phoenix on local developer Harmonix (Hey, we mentioned them earlier!)

GamesRadar/PC Gamer interviews Raph Koster on 'A Theory Of Fun' (On 'the liberal deployment of friendly penguins'.)

1UP: Alex Seropian (Wideload Games') weblog (A little discombobulated, but Stubbs The Zombie looks great.)

QT3: Some PSP games are way too hard to see in sunlight (Good observation - especially Tony Hawk and Untold Legends.)

Yahoo/E!: Spike TV commissioning Blade TV movie ('Hopes [it] will evolve into a sort of macho version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.')

Guitar Hero - new game from Frequency creators Harmonix (In association with dancemat maker Red Octane, has custom Guitar Freaks-like guitar controller, yum. [UPDATE - site pulled, IC has cached info.])

Gamasutra: 'Mobile Postmortem: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' (Free reg. req, dayjob, Wyld Stallions go mobile, get dissected.)

ARGN: Touch Me, I'm Perplex City (It's extremely bold - I hope it does well.)

Neomarxisme: 'New Movie Idea: E.T.' (Where did he dig this idea up from - the desert? Via JeanSnow.)

Ben '222b' Turner on Epic's new Unreal game (Some very good points here.)

Soda non-recommendation: Skeleteens' Black Lemonade (All of Skeleteens' sodas are odd, this one no exception - I agree with Bevnet: a 'very strange taste that burns on the way down.' Weird.)

Water Cooler Games on Wega 'Armchair Games' advergames (Mm, oldskool Track&Field rip-offs.)

Agape Press: 'Parental Advisory: Check Kids Video Game Magazines' ('GamePro gave readers tips on how to search the Internet and find free pornography.' Those rotters!)

1UP: Retro/Active - 'Loaded' (Interviewing the original developers, now at Sumo Digital, too - neat.)

Forza Motorsport: Official Drivatars Site (Microsoft Research's site for the AI technology used in Forza.)

Transient's net.label charts, April 2005 (Very much my netlabel taste, FWIW.)

IGN retains Creative Artists Agency to develop television projects (Ours not to reason why.)

TIGSource: On Tendrils, a 'DDRPG' (Yes, that's what you think the acronym means. Yes, it's insane.)

Jason Scott on the over-laborious Wikipedia pipeline (Ever thought-provoking, whether 'correct' or not.)

Gamasutra: 'Question of the Week Responses: Impressive Game Marketing' (Free reg. req, dayjob, includes a a gorgeous Erin Mehlos illustration aping Polybius.)

DaFont: Video game fonts (Oo, game fonts - via 4ColorRebellion.)

Stylus Magazine: 'Luminfire- The Velcro Party Favour: Installment #1' (Any mix that starts with Michael Jackson as Captain Eo is good with me.)

Slashdot: 'Gaming Hacks' review (Better late than never! It's bouncing the book up the Amazon charts, too, esp. cos it's $9.99 there.)

GAF: Kingdom Hearts II Jump Festa trailer (A rather fetching trailer.)

The Case Of The Haunted NES weblog (From the successful winner of this artifact, of course.)

Yahoo!/AP: Stephen Colbert gets own show on Comedy Central (Called 'The Colbert Report': 'One segment of his show, "Worthy Opponent," will feature Colbert debating Colbert.')

Editor&Publisher: Latest 6-month circulation numbers for U.S. newspapers (>100,000 circ down 1.6% on weekdays, 2.3% on Sundays.)

GDCTV - Peter Molyneux's 'Gameplay Moves Forward into the 21st Century' lecture (Free reg. req, Gamasutra-affiliated, putting Game Developers Conference lectures up in streaming video form, yay.)

Fox's new show, 'Hell's Kitchen', debuts May 30th (They've been showing lots of Ramsay on BBC America recently, and his terminal anger management issues are a joy to behold.)

Importance Of: 'Videogame Golf, Copyright and Drunken Bar Patrons' (Arcade golf games confusing when drunken?)

Gamasutra: 'Making a Case for Short Games' (Free reg. req, dayjob: 'Using his own Strange Adventures in Infinite Space as a test case, Digital Eel's [and ex-Looking Glass, Ion Storm employee] Rich Carlson highlights the benefits in both making and playing short games.')

Yahoo/E!: Tom Green makes up with Martin Short (Dumb story, but considering I'm a rabid Tom Green fan, why didn't I notice his regularly-updated weblog? Odd.)

GamesAreFun: Burnout Legends coming to PSP (Lots of great PSP racing games - Ridge Racer, Midnight Club 3, this, GTA...)

Legaltorrents: 'Nobody Needs To Know' feature film (793mb .torrent) (Azazel Jacobs, the director of the NYC indie 2003 feature film 'Nobody Needs To Know', has authorized its distribution via a Creative Commons license and BitTorrent - great move.)

1UP: 'United Storefront - What does the Gamestop/EBGames merger mean for gamers?' (Good piece, also the return of Doktor Smith.)

Yahoo/AP: TV Land showing 210 guys called Raymond during 'Everybody Loves Raymond' finale ("TV Land wants to be sure that no viewers will accidentally miss this historic television event.")

Raymond Padilla quits GameSpy (One of the more 'connected' game journos goes it alone - 'shooting a [web-TV] pilot for Yahoo!' with Zoe Flower.)

1UP: We Love Katamari hands-on preview (Our frothing etc for this etc.)

Engadget interviews Bill Gates on next-gen Xbox (Blogs are getting darn good media access, nowadays.)

DIYGames: Independent Adventuring, March 2005 (A bit late this month, but these round-ups are invaluable.)

GameSpot on mobile gaming in India ('Cricket and Bollywood movies' are popular themes for Indian mobile games.)

AnimeNewsNetwork: Midori Days TV show (Anime in which the main character's 'right hand becomes a girl named Midori Kasugano, who confesses that she has had a crush on him for the last three years.' I heart Japan - via Nich.)

Intel Bible-based Christian Network - who we are. (They sponsor the CGDC, apparently - companies so large that they have their own ecosystems.)

AtomFilms: PSP-formatted short film downloads (According to the SF Chronicle, this is officially Sony-sponsored so movie content will "drive people to buy the PSP.")

Press release: Linkin Park do a Prince (Record company offices burning as we speak - Linkin Park 'weighing all of their options on how to best get new music to their fans.')

CNN Money: Warren Buffett talks at Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting (Some v.interesting opinions on the real estate market, trade deficit.)

Comics Reporter interviews Kyle Baker (I'm only semi-comic-literate, but Baker's graphic novel of his Plastic Man series for DC sounds v.appetizing after this.)

Playbeast: Chairfix, from Ben Wilson and Pete Fowler ('Chairfix was inspired by Airfix model kits and is easily assembled by the consumer using a hack saw and mallet.')

LegalTorrents: One net.label MP3 Archives Vol.1 [834mb .torrent] (Lots of wonderful electronic music from one of my favorite net.labels.)

GameSpot: Hands-on with 'Shadow Of The Colossus' (Formerly Wanda And The Colossus, etc - ICO fans, please commence salivating.)

Soda semi-recommendation: Orange Nehi (Apparently Radar from M.A.S.H. loved it - it's clean, fresh orange soda with super-dayglo coloration, and is... pleasant enough.)

AP/Yahoo: new episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants start Friday (Oh no! Mr. Krabs molts his shell!)

Slashdot Games on the Star Wars Galaxies combat upgrade (More woes for SOE - bugs and major balance changes jaundice an already grumpy community.)

ARGN: Perplex City 'alternate reality game' reveals key gambit (It's pay-to-play via special trading cards (scroll down!) which have clues on them - a new way to monetize ARGs?)

Cryptoworld: Operation Death Worm 2005 (Apparently, the Mongolian Death Worm 'can spit a corrosive yellow saliva that acts like acid' - cryptozoology blogging fun!)

Gorillaz ft. De La Soul - 'Feel Good Inc.' music video (Includes Sony PSP-formatted version - new Dangermouse-produced album out soon.)

Boomkat: Specialten DVD musicmag, issue 7 (With a Peter Fowler print plus musicvid/shortfilm goodness, and the other issues look great too - I just ordered from U.S. stockist Darla, which has Issues 7 and 8.)

Frogtoss Games: Verticube ('Disclaimer: Frogtoss Games and Verticube are not associated with Sony, Q! Entertainment or Ubisoft in any way.' Oh dear.)

Archive.org: bad loop - luo - [one018] (One of my favorite net.label releases of 2005 so far - beautiful electronic music.)