ffwd: Linklog

Gamasutra: 'GDCE: 'Feature: Case Study- Designing Games For 3G Networks'' (Matt Bellows aspires to console-like performance for mobile gaming.)

Gamasutra: 'GDCE: 'Feature: Yahoo! Games Gone Mobile: The Power of Connected Communities'' (Yahoo! making play into gaming infrastructure market.)

Gamasutra: 'GDCE: Microsoft Reveals New Xbox 360 Details' (Some interesting stuff here, larger write-up to come.)

Gamasutra: 'GDCE: Game Developers Conference Europe 2005 Starts' (Woohoo!)

UK Resistance has pictures of Yuji Naka in a German hedgehog sanctuary (And this is why we love UKR.)

Gamasutra: Ernest Adams on 'The Bill of Players' Rights' (He's a veritable modern-day soothsayer, isn't he?)

G-Pinions raves about Graffiti Kingdom's create a character mode (But can you make Crazy Frog? Via Wonderland.)

Slate: 'My Life as a Hack' (Why freelance magazine writing is ever-trickier, financially - via Boutin.)

Dubious Quality: Bill Harris says Space Rangers 2 is the PC game of the year (Here's the official site - uber-obscure Eastern European hardcoreness - via Gillen.)

Yahoo/AFP: Patricia Cornwell still making noise about her Jack The Ripper book (Updated version apparently coming, but her conclusions are still ridiculous.)

Project Brittania - for unofficial Ultima-related remakes on the Dungeon Siege engine (Damned Vulpine has more info - hopefully we'll see something playable soon.)

Clickable Culture points out Bible-ized board games (I did see a 'WWJD?' board game at a discount KB Toys a while back...)

IGN tests out the Game Boy Micro (Lots of good comparative photos here.)

Off to Game Developers Conference Europe - updates will be slow/sparse (Watch Gamasutra for show coverage later next week.)

Evan Dorkin's Adult Swim pilot going into production (I quite liked Welcome To Eltingville - let's hope this one takes off.)

Yahoo! Movies: Newest 'Doom' movie trailer (With all the first-person corridor shots, this is just... odd. )

Game Informer previews Phantasy Star Universe at Sega Japan (Vague - but having been a PSO fan, I'm pretty excited about this.)

Gamasutra: 'Silence Is Golden: Takayoshi Sato's Occidental Journey' (Truly one of the best articles we've run on Gamasutra in a long time.)

Eurogamer actually quite likes From Russia With Love (Is this the start of the EA LA/Bond game renaissance?)

eToychest: Bandai announces Masaya Matsuura's 'Tamagotchi DS' for the West ('Players apply makeup, treat cavities, decorate cakes' - typical Nintendo-platform themes.)

Namako Team praises D3's Earth Defense Force 2 (Turns out EDF 2 is well worth a Western release - do it, D3!)

Variety: Info on Christopher Guest's 'For Your Consideration' (Also starring Ricky Gervais, the usual suspects - I am salivating.)

3rd Annual 'Rockets On Prisoner' Halo/Halo 2 machinima awards (Nice to see specific machinima awards for particular games.)

MTV News: Video game character music playlists (Conker likes Viv Stanshall, Death Jr. digs The Prodigy. )

CNET News: 'EA invests big in the future' (Featuring quotations from me being really quite polite about the 'Arts.)

Gamasutra: ' Question of the Week Responses: Xbox Pricing and Bundling?' (In some ways, a surprising amount of disquiet here.)

PR: Ubisoft's Frag Dolls Announce Search for New Team Member (Go frag 'em!)

Game Developers Ireland on DC Studios' Dublin division ('In recent years, Montreal has ceased to be a low cost resource [for game development]' - interesting comments.)

DMN: Axion Ships New SEGA Gaming Controller (Wow, this is just incredibly ugly.)

4 Color Rebellion: 'Nintendogs inspires developers' (Very cute, very cute.)

Neomarxisme: Napoleon Dynamite to be called 'Bus Man' in Japan ('If it becomes a huge phenomenon, however, we'll perhaps know that this otaku boom is the real deal.')

MTV News: 'Gamers Remodel R. Kelly's 'Closet,' Replace Sex With Cuddling' (More neat Stephen Totilo reportage at MTV News.)

Gelf Magazine: 'Irony Is Lost on the Copywriters' (More great examples of misleading critic blurbs.)

AnyUzer rants quite successfully on the 'broken' game development process (Things go down like this, but things can be better than this - via BrokenToys.)

eBay: Capcom's 'Fox Hunt' for PlayStation 1 (This game came up in an interview Brandon did today - I had no idea it got a PS1 release.)

NetNinja: 'Robotfindskitten' Java applet version (Someone I spoke to didn't know about robotfindskitten. Now you all do! Apparently this is how it started.)

Edge Online on 'PlayStation Freedom' homebrew PSP games (Clearly, the world is waiting for the PSP emulator on the PSP.)

Guardian Gamesblog interviews Relentless on Buzz PS2 quiz game (It's a pity SCEA still aren't taking SCEE's calls.)

OgreCave on Otherworld Excursions 'adventure tour agency' (Location-specific tabletop RPG tours from famous designers - conceptually delightful.)

Game Informer Online checks out Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Handy impressions - definitely getting this.)

Stubbs The Zombie - official site gallery (Check out the 'Cinema Trailer' in the Trailers section - great stuff.)

Shacknews: 'The Retail Perspective' (Sorta feels like an insurmountable problem. Ack, despair!)

New York magazine article on Kathy Griffin (Anyone who criticizes Dr. Phil is good with me.)

Eurogamer interviews Hideki Konno on Nintendogs ('We were already starting to develop a cat-based game at the outset of this project.' Virtual cat lady alert!)

eBay: Absolutely gorgeous Activision high-score patches (Though I'm not paying $50+ for the nice ones - his old auctions are a trove of Infocom/Activision rareness.)

BusinessWeek: 'IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are' (The Internet's boom-bust cycles continue to astound me.)

1UP: Retro/Active - Shantae (WayForward are scrappy but adorable, damn them.)

Cartoon Brew: Chronicle Books releasing 'I Am 8-Bit' book in March 2006 (Great news - here's the semi-canonical photoset from the original exhibition.)

Mojave Airport Weblog's Alan Radecki flies over the boneyard (Can you see the Mythbusters yet?)

Kotaku: Poster given out with (press copies of?) DS Nintendogs (So. Damn. Cute.)

EVE Online to launch 'E:ON' official magazine (Very neat idea, a la The Matrix Online - wonder if any UK mag EVE acolytes had anything to do with this?)

Athena's Legacy: 'Watch a pretty girl talk about some game' (The lad mag approach yet again, *sigh*.)

Shacknews: Unreal Tournament 2007 screenshots (Hubba. And what's more - hubba!)

Gamasutra: 'Postcard From The 2005 Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival' (Neat stuff on educational games, humor and gaming in here.)

PR: MTVu Greenlights Fall Programming (Including 'Videogamefix': "mtvU VJs surprise students with the perfect games for learning to drive, how to not get killed in paintball, or how to make the golf team." Right.)

Hollywood Reporter: 'Game developers: Talk to my agent' (But do most developers _really_ need agents?)

1UP: Ben Turner talks to OlderGames at CGE (Also a great mini-interview with the Messiah hardware guys.)

UltimateDisney reviews 'The Boatniks' on DVD (Wow, this sounds so absolutely terrible that it might be worth watching.)

TeamXBox on Rent-A-Hero No.1's U.S. non-appearance (Old, but confirms that super-obscure U.S. publisher AIA USA shut down in late 2004.)

WWMnA: Smoke-spewing robot attacks Japanese prime minister (I'm trying to envisage that happening to any other premier. And failing.)

eBay: Yuk Yuk Joke Machine ('THE JOKES ARE SO DIRTY THAY EVEN MAKE ME BLUSH.')

Luxo: Disney/Pixar sand sculptures from Australia (The Syndrome one is rather neeto.)

SomethingAwful trawls HotOrNot for 'stand-outs' (And boy, they stand out - via Linkbunnies.)

NY Times: The Gamer: 'Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body' (OK on themes, but why all this cyclical doom-mongering? It seems pointless.)

Patricia Waller's odd/gory crochet sculptures (The still life video game one is particularly odd - via WWMnA.)

Nintendo: Yoot Saito's 'The Tower SP' out now for GBA in Japan (From the Seaman creator, aka Sim Tower in the U.S. - looks great - can I plead for a Western release?)

Private Eye: Pseuds Corner, Issue 1139 (''Like' introduces a tiny performance, a 'take' that displays a message.')

Pop Justice points to uncensored video for new T.A.T.U single (Formerly faux-lesbian, now they're coming on all gorily Thelma & Louise.)

SFGate: 'Bigfoot museum joins Mystery Spot near Santa Cruz' (Neat, will have to go sasquatch-hunting - via Fortean Times.)

ODK: 'Kasou Taishou' Japanese visual illusion TV competition downloads (From the same show which did Matrix Ping-Pong - check the 'Karate Master' skit.)

DVD Savant reviews Sam Peckinpah's 'Major Dundee, The Extended Version' (He wrote the DVD liner notes, so is great on the history of this tortured epic.)

GBAtemp.net - list with screenshots of every GBA game (Unfortunately warez-scene related, but great chronological info.)

LegalTorrents adds a 10-album 'best of' from exotica/eclectic net.label Comfort Stand (Torrent file is here, here's more info on Comfort Stand itself.)

QT3: 'Our Man in Japan -- Mythkiller 7' (Wrestling with stereotypes about Japanese gaming culture.)

1UP: 'Videogame Development 101' (Not a bad overview of some of the more industry-tied schools.)

Archive.org: 'Black Dragons' PD film (A wartime Bela Lugosi flick revolving around 'secret WWII conspiracies, Nazi plastic surgeons and revenge'.)

Reed/Fairlight - 'Dirty 64' - Assembly '05 oldskool music winner [MP3] (Done entirely in PollyTracker - technically amazing for the Commodore 64.)

eBay: Nintendo 'Dolphin' GameCube dev system for sale (Also selling Dolphin Gang writer, whatever the heck that is - via LostLevels.)

Yahoo! Music Engine recommendation: Ben Lee's 'Awake Is The New Sleep' (Click to listen if you subscribe to YME - wonderfully pure, sunny new pop music, esp 'Catch My Disease' - excerpts here.)

GameTab: Nintendogs U.S. reviews starting to arrive (The real question - is Nintendogs going to be 'just' a success, or a Pokemon-style phenomenon? )

Game Tunnel's July 2005 indie game review round-up (It's amazing how many indie games there are nowadays.)

Gamasutra: 'SIGGRAPH 2005: Beyond the Gamepad' (Writing up a neat SIGGRAPH panel on alternative game controllers.)

PressTheButtons talks to BGNG about F-Zero X hacking (Some pretty amazing reverse engineering going on here.)

Diamond Geezer traces the history/course of the River Fleet in London (Oddly enough, the Tom Baker-era Dr. Who episode I'm watching via my PSP right now focuses on the River Fleet, and giant rats - and stars recent Oompa-Loompa Deep Roy as 'Mr. Sin' - via Things.)

Jason Kottke rather publically disses Technorati (I find my Technorati keyword searches are inundated with spam blogs - _not_ good.)

Stick Figure Ninja recreates Fatboy Slim's 'Weapon Of Choice' video (Cool how they kept the Fatboy Slim cameo portrait in color. Via FoTW via LB.)

O2Jam NX - Malaysian 'Beatmania'-styled rhythm action online game (Here's the title in action - pretty intriguing.)

Polly Tracker Commodore 64 music competition (I'm one of the judges, make tunes in super-exotic Aleksi Eeben-authored C64 tracker, win a... C64!)

Game Informer Online goes hands-on with Shadow Of The Colossus (FWIW, I like Bryan Vore's writing for Game Informer of late.)

Archive.org: 'Bo Marley - Bauhelm / disrupt - Bauhelm Dub' (More skankin' German retro dub netlabel goodness.)

Eurogamer rounds up, loves Game Convention 2005 (Looks like Europe has a new consumer game show to care about.)

GameDaily.biz: 'The Lessons You Learned in J-School have Changed' (Wait, did any game journalists _go_ to journalism school?)

1UP: Gaming's Rhapsody: 3rd Movement ('What would it sound like if drunken hillbillies had made it?')

Wikipedia entry for Ziff Davis (I had no idea that the 1UP owner was a pulp magazine firm that owned Amazing Stories.)

Gamasutra: 'Blogged Out: Terra Nova, Awful Games, SIGGRAPH' (Rossignol's picks are particularly choice/interesting today.)

PlanetXbox: Xbox 360 marketing brochure leak (Xbox 360 hard drive comes preloaded with Pajitnov title, Hexic HD!)

EW Popwatch: Gorillaz doing virtual tour via Habbo Hotel (Cool! Shoeshine! Something!)

Clickable Culture: 'Second Life' Game Dev Competition Winners Announced (I must re-try Second Life, one of these days...)

Cesspit on the steady growth of EVE Online (Easy does it? Not the best numbers, but great staying power - via AggroMe.)

Ruthless Reviews: 'The 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pictures Of All Time' (Also see the NSFW-ish follow-up - rawk?)

MTV News: 'Girlz Of Destruction Obliterating Gaming Gender Barriers' (Same ol' story, but at least it's well written-up.)

Water Cooler Games: 'Why the IGDA's new Sex & Games SIG goes limp' (Still think this was an odd move on the IGDA's part.)

SkyZone Entertainment: Donovan McNabb's Football 2154 ('By 2154 A.D., football is a boring sport played by uninspired robots.' Have mobile games improved by then?)

MindCandy DVD Vol.2 preview (A 1gb demo of the best Amiga demos ever, also check the blog - I love you, DemoDVD folks.)

Scotland Today: 'Promotion for Edinburgh’s Norwegian Army penguin' ('His medal had to be forcibly attached rather than formally presented.')

Gamasutra: 'Question of the Week Responses: Industry Starts?' (Some good stories in here, from ex-accountants to MIT Infocom pioneers.)

Slashdot: Posts from new Slashdot editor 'Scuttlemonkey' (Not much info, but hey, new Slashdot editor alert!)

MTV News: 'Parents Accuse Snoop Dogg Of Pee Wee Football Sabotage' ('I'm mad at Coach Snoop... why did he take all our players?')

Monotonik: Coax - Blackened EP [mtk151] (New on my netlabel - 'electro-tinged, extremely catchy, almost retro video game-like electronics'.)

Geek on Stun: Secretary Of Bullet Hell Shooters (Almost UKR-like in its pathos.)

RedKeyRedDoor points out neat Nintendo cross-stitch (Why do arts and crafts go so well with Nintendo?)

Disney Auctions: Muppets' Wizard Of Oz items (Particular highlight? The 'Oz For Dummies' book.)

The Onion receives sage words from Michael Bay ('Walk into the emperor-penguin exhibit, and punch one those f*ckers right in the face.')

Aggro Me analyzes the winners of the EverQuest II 'Quest For Antonia' contest (I'm waiting for 'Quest For Antonio'.)

Quinn @ Ambiguous finds in-tray plane advertising on America West ('But it's just a giant sticker, so I peeled it off and stuck it in the pocket in front of me.')

Tiptonium.com: 'Ghostlop Boogie' Flash animation (Huh? Based on a totally obscure Neo Geo proto - lots of extreme Neo Geo-related oddness here.)

Jeffool interviews Mark 'Rag Doll Kung Fu' Healey ('I would love to see all the corporate grey middle men banished from the industry.')

Blue's News makes fun of C&VG's bombastic 'Unreal Engine 4' Mark Rein snippet ('Swanky new offices, which apparently feature indoor plumbing'!)

WoW Forums: WoW-playing son caught by WoW-playing mom ('Brion - if you don't want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning - DON'T post on a forum that she reads.')

LJ: SuperTy's guide to winning at arcade redemption games ('If you work in a mall food place, start a black market; food and drink for tokens and candy.')

Yahoo!: Rev Run - 'Mind On The Road' music video (A giant, caped, priest-collared Run maraudes through NY. With inevitable Donald Trump cameo.)

RedKeyRedDoor has a review of Classic Gaming Expo UK (Yay, oooold demo-scene friend Mark 'TDK' Knight played live, I see.)

Gizmodo on the N3-B Kidrobot Speaker Box (Looks like a bloke in a parka.)

Simpsons Season 6 alternative packaging website (An alternate for the fan-loathed Homer head packaging - the 'reasons for wanting new box' are priceless.)

Eurogamer: The State of Independence #2 (Gillen waxes lyrical about Kenta Cho, which is no bad thing.)

Theme Park Insider on Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom (Covered before, but it's 'a joint project between Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online and Sulake: a Finland-based game developer behind the popular Habbo Hotel'? Didn't know that.)

IGDA's 'Sex and Games' blog (Cyberlore's Brenda Brathwaite is on the officialgamesexblog case.)

PlayFirst: 'TriJinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery' (Very interesting, high production-value casual title. I like PlayFirst.)

Dean Takahashi on 'A Walk Through The Xbox 360 Evaluation Lab' (Those Merc News game folks are blogging up a storm.)

GamingReport: Cheapass Games, Avalon Hill veterans form Titanic Games (I know little about boardgaming, but this sounds like a dream team - via OgreCave.)

N-Philes: 'Off the Record, Vol. 2 - Super Smash Bros. Melee' (Last time I tried to link this, the site was down - great hack info.)

Archive.org: New release in 'Retro Core' obscuro gameplay video series (Valis II, Samba De Amigo 2000 - can't go wrong.)

Eurogamer's first reviews of Nintendo DS 'Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan' (The developer's previous game is now insano rare, so better get in now with this one?)

ISO City - multi-artist isometric pixel art houses (Cute idea, some great art here - via Brandon.)

Game Revolution: 'Jack Thompson Tried To Arrest My Boss' (Rock star ate my hamster, etc.)

Yahoo! Music Engine recommendation: Amorphous Androgynous' 'The Isness' (Click to listen if you subscribe to YME - post mercury-poisoning and India, Future Sound Of London's odd, under-rated psychedelic '60s comeback album - here's the link to excerpts for the curious. New FSOL/AA album out soon, btw.)

CNN: 'Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops' ('Someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.' Damn you, Apple!)

BBC News: 'Before and after' shots of flash-flood hit Boscastle, Cornwall (A year on, striking pictures - I think I've been to Boscastle on holiday.)

Boston Globe: 'Saving the world as we know it' (Fun article on the Internet Archive, why it's still important.)

VGMWatch - the website formerly known as The Video Game Ombudsman (Ombudsgone! Same controversy, though.)

TV Squad lauds The Andy Milonakis Show (Comments show how divisive he really is - personally, I adore the show.)

Mediaweek on latest U.S. ABC magazine circulations (Celeb magazines, predictably, go crazy - via Drudge.)

IFilm: M83's 'Teenage Angst' music video (Also by Matthew Frost, similarly halcyon to his 'Don't Save Us From The Flames' clip.)

Clickable Culture on Second Life's planned 'virtual television network' (Appropriately cynical comments, but as always, great concepts.)

Ward's Auto: 'Video Games Influence Future Vehicle Designs' ('The aesthetics of video games will have an impact on car designs.' Maybe.)

Unfiction's Perplex City weblog (Keeping up with the interestingly monetized, super-dense ARG.)

Gamasutra: 'Whip Smart: Konami's Koji Igarashi On Mastering Castlevania' ('The Castlevania fanbase is only decreasing, not increasing.' I reckon he can fix that.)

GamerDad: Brian 'Big Huge Games' Reynold's son reviews World Of WarCraft ('I also like WoW because it teaches you how to type.' And gank!)

InsomniacMania: Dungeon Siege update from Uwe Boll ('There will be a few love making scenes, yes.')

GameSpot goes hands-on with The Matrix: Path Of Neo (Rumor has it that this could be good - can this reverse previous apathy?)

System16's Atomiswave arcade game page (I'm mildly obsessed - didn't know that Knights of Valour was out. Also still hearting the IGS PGM.)

Major Nelson's Blog: 'J Allard injury report' (Ouch, wrist bulgy thing. This is why I don't play Downhill Domination.)

DoubleJump working on official Genji, Castlevania: Dawn Of Sorrow strategy guides (Great news for those who like _good_ hintbooks - try their Disgaea book if you doubt.)

Mastiff/Mad Catz' 'Pump It Up! Exceed' official site (With over 100 songs, I'm still excited for the DDR-style Korean import, even if it has no buzz.)

'Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment' - space trading sim using Adventure Game Studio (Rather great, from the 5 Days A Stranger guy - via Gillen.)

Game Informer: Great, long interview with id's Todd Hollenshead ('John [Carmack]’s first impressions are, "360 great, PS3 – pain in my ass."')

Gamasutra: 'Playing Catch-Up: Dan Kramer' (Cool kids do it with a trackball.)

ffwd: 'August tidings from August' (Info from my main weblog on the now-released August issue of Game Developer, which can be bought digitally by single issue or subscription nowadays, too, plus a heads-up on the September issue.)

Archive.org: The BBS Documentary Video Collection (It's up already, including the full John Sheetz interview - Jason Scott is my hero.)

Gothamist on the University of Michigan's Making of America digital archive (Digital archives++)

Times Online on Terry Jones and the state of Monty Python ('The hungry search for edgy material is gone.' Via RobotWisdom.)

Kieron Gillen's 'How To Use/Abuse The Gaming Press' lecture (And he should know!)

Engadget on Scribbler programmable robot (It's all a bit like Logo with the turtles.)

Warehouse 23: 'Cowthulhu' T-shirt (Also see Squidbob 'Thulupants, Collect Call of Cthulhu - neeto - via Crysflame.)

Damned Vulpine on the Austin Game Developers 'Hot Coffee' mod discussion (Sounds like there were some real firecrackers on the panel.)

Cartoons & Caricatures: More John Kricfalusi caricatures (These are also comedy gold - via CartoonBrew.)

Super Flash Bros - great game-related Flash animation (Actually funny stuff.)

1UP previews Virtua Tennis: World Tour (One of the few PSP games worth getting excited about, still.)

Insert Credit: Mark Healy @ Lionhead's 'Rag Doll Kung Fu' project to be distributed via Steam (The game is _hopefully_ entering the IGF as well - fingers crossed!)

Wikipedia: List of websites with a high PageRank (Woohoo, Archive.org at 9, too - via RobotWisdom.)

Engadget: Pictures of 'Tivo Download' Beta (Just a few IFC shows for now, but even so...)

Retro Thing: 'Musical DNA - The Neural Synthesizer' ('Six interconnected analog neurons'? Every household needs one.)

Reuters: 'Mobile phone virus infects Helsinki championships' (This is conceptually interesting, to say the least - when's the first PSP virus arriving?)

Funnycute: John Kricfalusi's caricatures of Hollywood stars (The Tom/Katie one is especially priceless - via CartoonBrew.)

Gamasutra: 'Technical Event Wrap Up: SIGGRAPH 2005' (Particularly neat: 'Visual Simulation of Weathering by Gamma-ton Tracing'. Gamma-ton!)

GamePro interviews Sucker Punch's Dev Madan (Sometimes Sly Cooper doesn't get enough love, darn it.)

Takayoshi Sato's gorgeous concept art for EA's Goldeneye: Rogue Agent (Much of it kinda Silent Hill-esque, from the SH2 co-creator - watch for a Gama interview with him soon.)

Mat Dickie's slightly insane indie PC wrestling games (Most notable 'Michael Jackson: Wrestling With The Truth', which uses 'wrestling gameplay to tell the tale of Michael Jackson's current plight'.)

Amazon: 'Wild Highway' book by Bill Drummond, Mark Manning (The KLF co-founder and Zodiac Mindwarp himself go looking for Kurtz. Via DeCampi.)

Future Network recruiting for U.S. version of Games Radar consumer games site (Looks like there will be at least 8 editorial staff - a big GameSpot/1UP/IGN competitor, then.)

Lost Levels unearths Jaleco's Bashi Bazook: Morphoid Masher (Actually pretty darn good.)

Rossignol points out 'Abyssal Robots' ('The Lost City towers are distinct from the “black smokers” found at the seafloor cracks off the Northwest coast.')

Eurogamer reviews, doesn't dig Medieval: Resurrection for PSP (Can't say I'm spectacularly surprised.)

Microsoft Support: 'Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters' ('...and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords.' You tell 'em! Via In-Between.)

AtariAge Store now selling Paul Slocum's Cynthcart for C64 (Wacky custom cartridge, even includes support for 2nd SID chip (stereo chorus effect!) - via Vorc.)

Gamasutra: 'Media Consumption: Three Rings' Daniel James' ('Pirates lub bass. Yarr.')

Gelf Magazine covers the recent 'Cabin Boy' screening (Sounds like there will be a proper Get A Life DVD set, with Dan The Automator/Prince Paul helping!)

Regret The Error: 'Welcome to "Jew Jersey"' (Ouch, Denver Daily News, ouch.)

Yahoo! Music Engine recommendation: Tricky covering XTC's 'Dear God' (Click to listen if you subscribe to YME - from the 'Vulnerable' album.)

Image: Steve Carell vs. Treasure (Yeah, that's a Wario World guide he's reading in The 40-Year Old Virgin - via GeekOnStun.)

Brandon Bird: 'The Death Of Jennifer Sisko' painting (I'm not even a DS9 fan, and I heart this - via Crummy.)

Brand Week: DC/Mad Magazine launching Mad Kids, Mad Classic ('Mad's ad revenues are up 42% over 2004' - who'd have thunk a Mad resurgence was due?)

1UP: 'Smashing The Clock' (Great piece on speed running by Ben '222b' Turner.)

Gamasutra: 'It Builds Character: Character Development Techniques in Games' (Red Storm's Rafael Chandler uses tarot deck to create in-game personalities.)

RPGFan: Hudson releasing 'The Tomato Princess of Salad Land' on cellphones (Oh no! 'Kidnapped by the evil pumpkin king'!)

GameSpy's Top 25 GameCube games of all time (Coming soon... GameSpy's Top 25 Top 25s of all time!)

Game Informer talks to Q? Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Great interview, even includes pics of the Miz's chaotic office.)

Spong (!) interviews Microsoft's Peter Moore (He claims EGM 'stole' Perfect Dark Zero screenshots, Eurogamer's Conker review 'just not right'.)

Salon.com announces quarterly results ('Salon has experienced a drop in overall membership... primarily a result of greater emphasis being placed on serving advertising units, rather than marketing the Premium membership service.' Tactics change! Via PaidContent.)

MSNBC: 'Audience is clay in Aiken’s hands' (Andy from Reality Blurred temporarily becomes a Claymate.)

Hollywood Reporter: 'Video game workers still on the fence regarding unionization' (Follow-up to Paul Hyman's Game Developer article from earlier this year.)

Gamasutra: 'Soapbox: Difficulty and the Interstitial Gamer' (Good dayjob piece on the problems of less spare time, mammoth games.)

deviantART: 'a community divided' (Lots of fallout/email leaks, including one alleged, crucial one about Jark's departure from online community deviantART.)

Project Offset: in-game preview movie (From the team who made IGF winner Savage, but even indier this time - via PixelKill.)

ReadyMade Magazine interviews Dan Clowes on Art School Confidential ('My taxes are unbelievably complicated.' Via Comics Reporter.)

Yahoo! Music Engine recommendation: Amadou & Mariam's 'Dimanche A Bamako' (Click to listen if you subscribe to YME - great Manu Chao-produced, accessible Afrobeat - here's the album excerpts page for non-YME-ers.)

Game Science: Coke-related Wipeout Pure downloads for PSP in Japan (Advergaming, only optional, and for a good game, hurrah.)

Games.net: 'Ten Mario Sellout Moments' (Games.net continues to transfix me.)

Kieron Gillen disrupts Eurogamer with 'The State Of Independence' indie article (Of course, WildTangent are kinda corporate, but they still make interesting casual games.)

NoMoreHotCoffee.com (Rockstar's refreshingly direct URL for the GTA San Andreas patch.)

The Space Review interviews Richard 'Sir British' Garriott ('When I was young, I used to say that I would immediately take the opportunity to leave for deep space and never return. I still believe that.')

GamesAreArt.com - new indie game site (Apparently, it's all about forming a cell and subverting the status quo.)

BBC: Newsnight interviews 'WWW inventor' Sir Tim Berners-Lee (I find this interview hilarious - stretching for controversy!)

NCSX hints that the PSP movie frenzy may be over-rated (For imports, they reference a 'general lack of interest in PSP UMDs' - I think the alleged success is just overstocking.)

Sundown 2005 - UK oldschool demo party (Held in Budleigh Salterton, no Internet access, sounds wonderfully retro.)

TheFeature.com Archives (The high-end mobile tech site gets official post-shutdown archives, which is good news.)

Gamasutra: Jim Rossignol's latest 'The Esoteric Beat' (Some good stuff here on hyperfabric, war games.)

LA Times on 'setting the live music free' (Good profile of live digital concert trading, as the Internet Archive has helped popularize.)

Wonderland's Alice transcribes Ernest Adams' Women in Games keynote (Hirsute Gama columnist gives excellent speech to the less-hirsute.)

Snopes.com explains Matrix lawsuit confusion (Salt Lake Community College Globe gets it wrong again!)

CNet buys Metacritic.com (Interestingly, gives GameSpot a decent GameRankings competitor.)

EA Sports: Jeb Bush in Madden NFL 2006 ('Bush enters the game as a Miami wide receiver, catches a long ball, flattens his brother George W. -- playing defensive back for Dallas -- and leaps into the end zone for the winning touchdown.' Includes video! Via GeekOnStun.)

Edge Online's 'Get Into Games' guide now online (Good content in a very thin box.)

War World - indie mech PC title (Whoa, this is neat-looking - via Guardian Gamesblog.)

New York Times on 'relying on video game sequels' (When sequels iterate the gameplay to be better, I like them.)

Eurogamer has impressions of Monolith's F.E.A.R demo. (N.O.T. B.A.D.)

The Smoking Gun: 'Crusader Nabbed By Michigan Cops' ('I have a thousand years of power'!)

Gareth Schott's DIGRA paper on 'Sex in Games: Representing and Desiring the Virtual' (Woohoo, ohdear, Girltris.)

Gamasutra: 'Playing Catch-Up: Will Harvey' (Some great info on super-hidden levels in Zany Golf, Marble Madness, The Immortal.)

Tim O'Reilly's OSCON presentation on O'Reilly's tech book trendspotting [PDF] (Making book publishing profitability less of an art? Clever O'Reilly.)

Corpnews: 'Internet she-maling for fun and profit' (Oh, Interweb, what hath thou wrought?)

Fans.gorillaz.com: New video for 'DARE' (Includes Sean Ryder looking more like Frankenstein than normal.)

'The Ocean Experience' website (Lots of info and even development sketches/internal newsletters for the seminal UK game publisher.)

MSN Filter - Microsoft's own Gawker/Weblogs Inc. styled network (The layout is a little eh, but I like the content on Music Filter, for one.)

Way Of The Rodent UK gaming fanwebzine (Hey, I completely forgot about WOTR, partly cos they lack RSS, damn them.)

NYT Magazine on the rise of machinima (Particularly interesting: Rooster Teeth have to 'train' their actors in-game for the Strangerhood Sims 2 machinima - no hacking. Damn.)

Xbox365: Shots of menus for PSP and Xbox 360 interactivity (Just grabbing stuff off the PSP's memory card, but even so...)

Makeblog interviews Jason Scott on the BBS Documentary (Woohoo, Jason Scott, BBS Documentary!)

ICV2 interviews ICE Kunion consortium on Korean manga (Actually known as manhwa, mini-invasion alert?)

NCSX actually gets the Pac-Man Hat in stock (Apparently 'stretchy to accommodate medium sized noggins as well as melon-like ones'.)

The Safehouse report on the Sigil Fanguard Beta in Las Vegas (Interesting that Sigil Games is running fan conventions for Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes way before it hits Beta, even. Via GameBunny.)

Haze's MAME WIP on 'Osman Cannon Dancer' (Practically unknown, great-looking Strider clone from original Strider designer gets emulated.)

'Tenshin Goods' - Shou-sama's new Japanese game-selling blog (Lots of neat, rare, actually fairly cheap trinkets here.)

ArcadeFlyers.net: August 2nd flyer additions (Some gorgeous stuff here, from a Crystal Castles flyer to a 'Get The Atari Edge' promo sheet.)

Insert Credit: 'Legal game .torrents' (I pop onto IC to point out that The White Chamber and Facade are added to LegalTorrents.)

Nick.com: homepage for Doug 'Earthworm Jim' TenNapel's new cartoon show 'Catscratch' (More info at Wikipedia, apparently it has Terry Scott Taylor music, like Skullmonkeys did.)

Atarigames.com: Atari musical number from 1982 Atari Distributor Meeting in Hawaii [.MOV] (Atarigames.com has other goodness, too, like the 'Space Duel' dealer promo video.)

1UP: 'Sega Saturn: The Pleasure And The Pain' (On the console's 10th anniversary, an extremely good retrospective.)

Yahoo! Music Engine Unlimited web link instructions (Neat - easy to link albums to other YME subscribers, I may start - more plug-ins here.)

Insert Credit: More Yaroze titles being converted to Nuon (Is this where I admit I own a Nuon (mm, Tempest 3000)?)

Engadget: TiVo hints at new features ('Select TV shows and programming via broadband to your TiVo box… games, streaming radio, podcasting.')

Bad Subjects: Megan Shaw Prelinger on building the SF-based Prelinger Library (The library is a monument to ephemeral periodicals often neglected by libraries.)

TVShowsOnDVD: Complete 40-disc 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' box set ('When this set hits stores it'll likely go for $140' - I'm so there.)

Music Thing on the Ethermusic Theremin Festival (Includes a theremin cello - I used to play cello, weirdly enough.)

Crazy retro gaming tattoo design (Here's the detail - a totem pole of retro pixels - via TIGSource.)

Mark 'Mad Professor' Frauenfelder points out the 'L.A. Bizarro' guide book (Tri-Ess Sciences? Bob Baker Marionette Theater? Ooo.)

IGN tells us which Xbox games will be playable on Xbox 360 (Only they have no factual information, so they just guess. Hurray for journalism!)

John Ricciardi points to Level 5's 8-minute 'Rogue Galaxy' trailer ('I love this company. I feel like they were created just to make me happy.')

Gamasutra: 'Question of the Week Responses: Coin-Op Favorites' (Theres Ms. Pac-Man loving, there's Mehlos illustration goodness, 'n everything.)

Game Informer: Kingdom Hearts II hands-on report (Depp, Rush, Knightley from Pirates of the Caribbean, and a Steamboat Willie level in black and white? Extremely neato.)

GamePro/Mad Magazine's '10 Worst Things About Video Games' feature (With real Peter Bagge art, and a totally dumb Ratchet & Clank bashing attempt.)

UK Resistance: 'All Video Game Pirates Are Benefit Spongers' ('We want a secret cupboard. Their secret cupboard was obviously rubbish.')

SimHQ links to some advertising-enhanced Splinter Cell screenshots (Yes, thanks to Massive Inc, that's really Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo behind Sam Fisher. Via QT3.)

The Economist's cover story on 'Video gaming: Chasing the Dream' (Hey, cogent discussion! We like cogent discussion.)

MetalGearSolid.org interviews 'voice of Snake' David Hayter ('George Bush is a weiner', apparently.)

Gamasutra: Handheld console jokers Gizmondo buy racehorse called... Gizmondo ('The chestnut colt... made its debut run in the 3.00pm race at Yarmouth, England on the 4th August, and unfortunately placed 14th out of 16 runners, with the going described as 'good to firm'.' I love Gizmondo sooo much.)

Music Thing: 'Telstar' play based on life of Joe Meek opening in London (Wow - Meek was a pretty insane guy.)

PR: Ziff Davis releases quarterly results (Revenue down 17% for the game group, and it's the only division losing money, despite 1UP - youch - also, a birdie points out odd wording: 'reducing the frequency of Xbox Nation magazine', not discontinuing - maybe Xbox 360 Nation for November?)

Detail of Miami New Times' Art Teele cover story (Here's a thumbnail of the alt.weekly's GTA graphically-themed expose, spoofing the San Andreas box, of alleged political corruption, including GTA-ish CG renders, that led ex-commissioner Teele to commit suicide in the Miami Herald offices - semi-via Time)

BBC: Ricky Gervais writing entire episode of The Simpsons (...in which David Brent and Homer swap places. *rubs eyes*)

Ubisoft Store: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates playing cards (Originally a pre-order bonus, just got some of these, face cards have awesome custom designs.)

Eurogamer reviews Xbox Live Arcade (One of the first comprehensive reviews I've seen - neat.)

GameFly: 'We Love Katamari' U.S. cover art (The Gaming-Age Forums are exploding and burning as we speak.)

1UP: Gaming's Rhapsody, Second Movement (A little more game soundtrack goodness, exposed.)

GameSpot: 'Naked ambitions: Porn goes mobile' (Wireless rating system coming soon, unsurprisingly.)

PlanetGameCube has new screenshots of 'Trauma Center' for DS (Looking forward to frantic suturing a lot.)

Wired News: 'Christians Code Heavenly Games' (Curses, I wanted to get someone to cover this but didn't manage it.)

Nintendo Power interviews Sega's Simon Jeffrey ('Well, we’re aiming high. We’re aiming high for Sega, we’re aiming high for Sonic.')

SIDin Magazine - a PDF mag about the C64's SID chip (The latest issue has an interview with mon ami Aleksi Eeben.)

Gamasutra: 'Media Consumption: Treyarch's Jamie Fristrom' (The cute-ass picture reminds me of Captain Commando, hee.)

Edge Online: 'A World Apart' (WoW from a player perspective - the magazine art for the article looks neat.)

UK Guardian on Chris Langham's 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' departure (Funny, I hardly remember him being on it - via TVSquad.)

Squidbunnies: 'Most Excellent Psychonaut Comics' (Super-talented Gama contributors Nich Maragos and Erin Mehlos rock some Psychonauts fan-comic genius.)

Cliptip - the music video blog (Hey, neat idea - via XRRF.)

Leaky Cauldron has Mary Grandpre's 2006 Harry Potter calendar images (Some of these are genuinely scary.)

Ben Heckendorn builds a Neo Geo Portable (Final results on the front page of his site - this man is a God.)

Gelflog: 'Strangers in a Strange Land' ('Wonder what happens to news when a Luxembourg-based company starts writing your local paper and those in 80 other cities?')

Aggro Me analyzes the 5 'Quest For Antonia' EverQuest II finalists ('I've come to embrace the genius marketing plan behind this contest and think of it as akin to the Olympic Games, only better.' Via BrokenToys.)

Manuel's Netflix Journal on Netflix calculation tools (The guy's disgruntled, but heck, he links to some neat resources. Semi-via Negatendo.)

UK Resistance's stab at Lumines fan-fiction ('"Rotate one step further and look at my stupid, ugly diagonal face!" I shouted!')

GamesAreFun on MTO's 'Dino Grand Prix' for DS (Zoom zoom, chomp chomp - not really sure what's Grand Prix about it, though.)

Escapist Magazine: 'Player-Prompted Paranoia' (On updating the old paper RPG in an open-source stylee.)

BBC America: 2nd season of 'Little Britain' starts August 17th (NobutyeahbutnobutYEAH!)

Gamasutra: 'Postcard From The 2005 Casual Games Conference' (Dayjob - good write-up on a burgeoning market.)

MMO firm NCSoft explains the meaning of its logo ('NC orange symbolizes the exciting experience that the games provide, and NC violet expresses the mysterious charms that the games possess.' Via Cifaldi.)

Pouet.net: Assembly 2005 demo-party winners (Lots of good stuff in here - 'Porrasturvat for Stairstation 360 Live Revolution', haw - it's the classic updated.)

72 Hour Game Competition on 'horror' (Final entries are here - mm, homebrew goodness.)

API: 'Video-game ratings: a tool or a weapon?' (Men in suits who like us? Please form orderly queue to kiss them.)

Buttkicker Gamer - subwoofer chair vibrator (Insert witty, sexually charged comment about Rez vibrator [which apparently has PC control software!] here.)

UK Resistance: 'PlayStation 3 Launch Games Confirmed' (I'm looking forward to 'Cars With Fists II: GUNFISTS'.)

Gamasutra: Brandon interviews Nippon Ichi's Jack Niida ('The way we see it, there aren't any competitors. The more titles like ours that come out, the greater the market gets.' Uh... right.)

Lovecraft County: Return To Arkham - the online comic (Promoting Skotos' text-based MUD - is this anything like Bloom County?)

IEEE Spectrum: David 'Masters Of Doom' Kushner on 'Engineering Everquest' (Aimed at game neophytes, but insightful.)

IGN's amended, still incredi-harsh 'Airborne Troops' review by Ivan Sulic (The original version was even more dismissive.)

Constance Steinkuehler's PhD thesis on Lineage, Lineage II (Specifically the 'cognitive ethnography' of - via Ludology.)

GameSpy's 'Modify' mod column looks at neat Grand Prix Legends mod (GPL really is the game that won't quit.)

In Focus: Amazing, super in-depth Joss Whedon interview (Ever-so-slight Serenity spoilers - via Whedonesque.)

eBay: Buy stuffed animals killed by James Hetfield of Metallica (XRRF points out 'it's all for charity', though - awwww!)

WWMnA on surreal Japanese kids show 'Ugo Ugo Lhuga' (Featuring Shonen Knife, Toshio Iwai? Western release, please!)

1UP interviews Hiromichi Tanaka on Final Fantasy XI in insano detail ('You guys did a good job in combating the Gil sellers from places like Ordelle's Cave, where they'd monopolize creatures like Stroper Chyme for their Archer's Rings.' Baking powder?)

Press The Buttons on the F-Zero X 64DD tracks hacked into an N64 emulator (Good resurrection - not sure that there's a 64DD emulator?)

Gamasutra: 'Playing Catch-Up: Howard Scott Warshaw' (Yars' Revenge creator making documentary 'on the BDSM sexual subculture.' Really.)

WJU: 'Professor’s Study Finds That Peppermint and Cinnamon Lower Frustration and Increase Alertness in Drivers' (Vital research - via IR.)

Three Rings announces 'Bang! Howdy' (Whoa! 'Steam-powered Wild West' online strategy gaming! 'Free to play, pay for items' biz model! The Puzzle Pirates creators are mixing things up again.)

James Randi - 'An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural' (Neat to see online - via BB.)

AdventureGamers point out Akella's 'Tanita: Plasticine Dream' claymation game (Akella really are an interesting company - see earlier avant.projects.)

DoomMarine interviews id co-founder Tom Hall (He's at KingIsle now, doing an 'interesting, new kind of MMOG' now, weirdly enough.)

Bradenton Herald/Merc News on Bram Cohen's 'BitTorrent - the company' (I don't like it that obviously 99% illegal BitTorrent searching is part of their website.)

Official 'Fearless Freaks' site for Flaming Lips documentary (Finally got to see this DVD, meandering but wonderfully honest and human - watch it.)

Gamasutra: 'Event Wrap-Up: Advertising In Games West' (Dayjob, imho [doh!] a good, balanced piece on what advertising means to gaming.)

Mega64 - 'Paperboy' sketch [26mb .MPG] (Referencing this - I think I love Mega64 more than candy.)

'Hitogata Happa' - official site, PC demo download available (Gorgeous new Murasame-authored Japanese dojin shooter.)

DeviantArt co-founder Scott 'Jark' Jarkoff 'no longer employed' by site (His termination has set off all kinds of controversy, and the most popular art on the site's front page right now is all pro-Jark.)

Monotonik: Beak - El Hacedor EP [mtk150] (Latest on my netlabel, some 'guitar-idm specialness' to savor.)

Gamasutra: IGF 2006 mod competition games picked (Half-Life 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Neverwinter Nights, and Doom 3 - call for submissions also open.)

Alias.ws: Super-cute Japanese Gorillaz fan-art (More on the top line of links - via BBT.)

Terry Pratchett asks why 'the continued elevation of J K Rowling can only be achieved at the expense of other writers'? (A MetaFilter thread has more.)

Sam, the World's Ugliest Dog, has a weblog (He looks pretty suave in the red tinted sunglasses, FWIW.)

Space.com: Richard Branson, Burt Rutan form 'The Spaceship Company' (First customer obviously Virgin Galactic, but more to come - via Leif.)

Archive.org: AV Geeks - 'The Story' (Homer? Lisa? Maggie? As hinted, it _appears_ this story is filmed by Matt Groening's dad, and the narrator is a young Matt. In which case, damn cool.)

Dessgeega's uber-obscure gameplay videos (Most interestingly, includes a complete playthrough of the unreleased, fan-translated Star Fox 2.)

IC's reprehensible 'games/fapping' thread mines prose-based gold ('An entourage of acrobats, tumblers, and daredevils came in through the door to the opening horn blast of Coolio's "1-2-3 Sumpthin New."' I just like the image.)

Wunderland's Andrew Looney hints on OlderGames publishing 'Icebreaker 2' for 3DO (This is the unreleased sequel to the cult strategy/action game.)

Slashdot: Cmdrtaco announces CSS-templated Slashdot 'in the next few weeks' (Been alleged for a long time, but Slashcode is now running it, so...)

Gelf Magazine: 'Does Google News Have a Sense of Humor?' (Interesting analysis of how Google News treats satire.)

Invictus' 'Onescapee' freely downloadable graphic adventure (Also pointed out via /. Games - free-to-download strategy game Steel Panthers.)

Pixelkill on new Counter-Strike Neo details (Valve's team shooter gets a sci-fi makeover for Japanese arcades.)

Gameplay UK: 'Castle Shikigami II: War Of The Worlds' (The excellent/rare PS2 shooter gets a _completely_ spurious, Tom Cruise-aping subtitle for European release - via Shmups.)

Archive.org: John Huston's 'Report From The Aleutians' war documentary (PD since it's Government-produced, and great stuff.)