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Saturday, the 13th March 2010

✰ Daily Link Roundup: Must be a weekend.

Gaming

Gamasutra;
»GDC: Refining the Real-Time Combat in Mass Effect 2

Kotaku;
»Mass Effect 2 Carried Over 700 Plot "Hooks" from Original Game Saves

Film

io9;
»Cloverfield Director Says He Won't "Americanize" His Remake of Let the Right One In
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  • Friday, the 12th March 2010

    ✰ Daily Link Roundup: Feeling rather roleplayingly today.

    Gaming

    Gamasutra;
    »GDC: Schell, Robertson, Pinckard discuss Subversive Design Issues

    PopMatters Moving Pixels;
    »Building Worlds with Words in Mass Effect 2

    Wired Game|Life;
    »GDC; Final Fantasy's Future is Interactive Cut Scenes, Downloadable Content

    Kotaku;
    »Small Differences Between Japanese Final Fantasy XIII and International FFXIII
    »Final Fantasy XIII Review: A New Paradigm for an Old Franchise
    »Portal 2 Hijacks Blue Screen of Death at GDC Awards
    »Peace Walker Has the Stuff of a "Masterpiece"
    »Mass Effect 2 DLC Adds 90 Minutes, More Earth Teases

    Film

    io9;
    »Avatar to Return to Cinemas in the Fall?

    Curios

    io9;
    »Physicists Move One Step Closer to Discovering the Anti-You
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  • Thursday, the 11th March 2010

    [info]slavelabour, thank you for the v-gift!
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  • ✰ Daily Link Roundup: there's no poetry between us, said the paper to the pen

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch;
    »Play: Finding Where Games End and Reality Begins

    Gamasutra;
    »GDC: Nintendo's Sakamoto's Four Creative Tenets
    »GDC: Grasshopper's Akira Yamaoka Talks Audio Techniques
    »GDC: R.A. Salvatore on Building Worlds, Copernicus
    »GDC: Hecker's Nightmare Scenario - A Future of Rewarding Players for Dull Tasks

    IndieGames;
    »Indie Games Summit Round-Ups: Day 2

    Gizmodo;
    »Heavy Rain: A Peek Into the Future of Movies and Games

    Wired Game|Life;
    »White House: Ask What Game Developers Can Do for Your Country

    Animation

    Cartoon Brew;
    »The Disappearing Cartoon

    Film

    Gizmodo;
    »In This Horror Movie, the Call Comes from Inside the Theater

    Literature

    Boing Boing;
    »Cory Doctorow offering up free review copies of his new book, For the Win, to teenagers
    »Page from a choose-your-own adventure game about free will

    Comics

    io9;
    »To Protect and Kill: Morality in Action Manga

    Music

    Gizmodo;
    »Record Labels: Change or Die
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  • Wednesday, the 10th March 2010

    ✰ Daily Link Roundup: Well, now that's something.

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch;
    »That '70s Show's Hyde Remixes FFXIII Theme
    »Special: The Best of the 2009 Demoscene, Part 4

    Gamasutra;
    »GDC: thatgamecompany's Santiago, Hunicke Talk Exploratory Development
    »A Brief Postmortem of Today I Die
    »GDC: Spector: Don't Let Desire for Progress 'Throw Away Our Entire History'
    »GDC: FFXIII Director - Production Drove Content Decisions, Elements Will Return
    »GDC: Bungie, BioWare on Creating Blockbuster Franchises

    Boing Boing;
    »GDC Gallery: How the Indie Fund Could Change Game Dev Destiny

    Wired Game|Life;
    »GDC: Big Designers Find Satisfaction in Small Games

    Kotaku;
    »Here is Some Info About Final Fantasy XIV
    »First Look at the Delicious PlayStation Move

    Curios

    Boing Boing;
    »Watch a dissertation defense... LIVE

    Gizmodo;
    »Transform Your Hoodie into a Laptop Bag in Ten Seconds

    Oh Japan

    Kotaku;
    »Proposed Virtual Child Porn Law Trucking Along
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  • Tuesday, the 9th March 2010

    ✰ Daily Link Roundup: Pool table, I'm real happy for you and Imma let you finish...

    Gaming

    IndieGames;
    »Indie Games Summit Round-Ups: Day 1

    Kotaku;
    »Salute Your New King of Kong
    »How to Try Out for the Final Fantasy XIV Beta
    »Dwindling Tokyo Game Show Hopes to be World's Biggest Game Gathering

    Film

    io9;
    »Tron Legacy Trailer Stills Reveal Secrets, Plot Points and Upgrades

    Literature

    io9;
    »Is "Science Fiction Humanism" a Contradiction in Terms?

    Curios

    Boing Boing;
    »When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost
    »Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later

    The New York Times;
    »Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool

    Gizmodo;
    »MIT Media Lab Extension: The New Home of Face-Melting Research

    io9;
    »Lady Gaga in Wonderland, an Xbox 360 Robot, Star-Jumping with Eljiah Wood, and the Coolest Pool Table of All Time

    Jalopnik;
    »Dude, Where's My Flying Car? The Popular Science Fantasy

    Gearlog;
    »Where's Spock? Physicist Says Warp Speed Will Kill You
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  • Monday, the 8th March 2010

    ✰ Daily Link Roundup: Now with extra unicode.

    Fandom

    Gizmodo;
    »Tiny Voltron cosplay is adorable

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch;
    »Miranda Make-Up Tutorial for Mass Effect 2 Fans Wait, wait. Why would you want to, though?

    Grand Text Auto;
    »Global Game Jam recap

    Kotaku;
    »What Does a "Misanthropic" Film Director Think of Heavy Rain?
    »Violent Video Games Now Getting You 3-5 Years in a Venezuelan Prison
    »Why Modern Video Game Armies Lack Female Troops
    »The Disturbing Ways Our Video Games Addict Us

    Film

    io9;
    »The Existential Beauty of Godzilla Haiku

    via Kotaku;
    »The Tron Legacy trailer in HD

    Television

    io9;
    »Amanda Seyfried to Get Her Red Hood Symbolically Dirtied Up by a Werewolf

    Music

    Boing Boing;
    »OK Go Rube Goldberg video: meet the makers!

    Gizmodo;
    »Q&A OK Go's Lead Singer Tells Us Secrets of the Band's Geeky Videos

    Srs Bzns

    Kotaku;
    »3-year-old dies by mistaking her father's loaded pistol he just had hanging around for her Wii controller peripheral
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  • Sunday, the 7th March 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: In other news, DRM still doesn't work.

    Gaming

    Boing Boing:
    -Ubisoft DRM servers go down, punishing customers but not pirates

    Film

    io9:
    -When Your Face is Tied to Another Person's Mug, the Apocalypse Can be Tricky

    Curios

    Gizmodo:
    -Robot Pokemon: Kojiro Would Destroy Asimo with Musculoskeletal Jujitsu
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  • Saturday, the 6th March 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: I want to eat it, and yet not eat it.

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch:
    -Interview: Radaingames' Schneider Gets Happy Happy, JoyJoy

    Kotaku:
    -The Case of the Indie Devs and the Medical Marijuana Mixup
    -Xbox 360 controller cupcake

    Animation

    Cartoon Brew:
    -Descendants by Heiko van der Scherm
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  • Friday, the 5th March 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: one of the sunny happy people.

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch:
    -Twin Galaxies Founder Walter Day Retires

    IndieGames:
    -Links: Sick of Hearing About Meat Boy & Monaco

    GamePolitics:
    -Sexual Orientation Can Now be Included in Gamertag

    Wired Game|Life:
    -Review: Beautiful, Boring Final Fantasy XIII Loses RPG Magic

    Kotaku:
    -An Insider's Guide to Portal 2

    Film

    io9:
    -Don't Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead!
    -Tim Burton's Alice is a Bad Marriage Between Disney and Goth
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  • Thursday, the 4th March 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: Johnny plays his videogames for advice.

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch:
    -The Psychology of Games: The Glitcher's Dilemma

    Gamasutra:
    -Blog: Bringing Down the Hairy Elephant: The Ancient Art of Storyboards
    -Blog: On Game Structure
    -Analysis: Echoes from the Underworld - Echo Bazaar and Storytelling

    Destructoid:
    -Why Heavy Rain proves Ebert right

    The Psychology of Video Games:
    -Why Do We Love Genres So Much?

    Groping the Elephant:
    -Mass Effect 2: Living with your mistakes.

    Film

    io9:
    -How to Make an Oscar Winning Scifi Film (the io9 Way)

    Curios

    io9:
    -Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction
    -Once Dolphins are Recognized as People, Will We Send Them Into Space, or Kill Them?
    -A New Way to Search for Alien Life
    -Antarctica's Blood Falls are an Extremophile's Paradise

    Srs Bzns

    GamePolitics:
    -Korean Parents Neglect Real Child for Virtual One
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  • WWWRP #7 - "In five years time, I might not know you."

    ...Oh, I missed the roundup. Well, I was busy celebrating something (as most of the world knows by now), so much apologies all around. I'll be back in the saddle tomorrow.

    Writing

    Augh, procrastinating forever.

    Work

    Tutoring's been getting off to a pretty slow start this semester, but I'm hoping I'll see some more students after the English professors hand back their first revision notes. The quest for steadier work continues.

    Watching

    All right. Netflix is getting canceled again till my income's better. I'm asking for last-minute movie recommendations as I try to empty my queue and start the long detox process.

    On the new media front, I've ended up exhausting Rooster Teeth's non-RvB series and have discovered that their RT Shorts are nerdy, film student love. When the biggest laugh they get from me is from an incredibly punchy rack focus, it's easy to see what kind of hopeless case UCLA turned me into.

    Reading

    In search of feminine female characters I remember enjoying, I found my way back to Neverwhere. I reached the description of Door's 'fire opal' eyes, stopped, and closed the book again. Sorry, Neil. We both know you've grown since then.

    So I'm back to having no clue, honestly. This despite volunteering at Hathor, I know. It's not so much that I don't think they exist or that I can't point to any I know by reputation, I just can't remember having read and discovered any for myself. They just don't tend to crop up in the sort of fiction I read, which is probably just a sore consequence of reading too little, I know. Time to start picking up the slack on those resolutions (although I'm pleased to report that I'm up to 60 units on Folding@home).

    Playing

    Finished FFXII, just in time to hand the copy back to the person who loaned it to me on his birthday. Here, buddy! Remember when you lent this to me, oh, three years ago? Or was it four? Jesus Christ, I'm slow with this game.

    some notes upon, to avoid being a downer. )

    I do find myself in possession of a copy of Heavy Rain, but I'm putting off playing it till I can manage to reset the palette a little. Which... might be an understatement. Next on the list is Assassin's Creed (yes, I know, shame on me) and then Dirge of Cerberus, because somewhere in there I'm hoping the extremes will cancel out and I'll go into Heavy Rain as clean and impressionable as the virgin snow.
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  • Monday, the 1st March 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: like I had many trophies to wipe anyway.

    Large Hadron Collider

    io9:
    -At Last the Protons are Getting Ready to Smash

    Gaming

    Gamasutra:
    -Princeton Review Names USC Top Game Design School

    GamePolitics:
    -Dead or Alive: Paradise Director Fires Back at Critics

    Wired Game|Life:
    -Steve Wiebe to Chase Donkey Kong High Score at GDC
    -PlayStation 3 Units Coming Back to Life

    Kotaku:
    -The Underclass of the Japanese Gaming Industry
    -The Next Big Thing in Video Games Might Be Fear of Embarrassment

    Curios

    Gizmodo:
    -Project Gustav: Microsoft Research Updates MS Paint in a Huge Way
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  • Sunday, the 28th February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: And you've got a white mare so take me with you.

    Gaming

    BitMob:
    -Top Five Black Video Game Characters that Deserve Their Own Game!

    Kotaku:
    -Indoctrinating the Veterans of a Virtual War
    -PS3s Suffering from Global Network Lockdown

    Film

    io9:
    -5 (Imaginary) Movies About Your Favorite Childhood Games

    Comics

    io9:
    -The 75 Books You Should Own for DC Comics' 75th Anniversary

    Srs Bzns

    Boing Boing:
    -UK Digital Economy Bill will wipe out indie WiFi hotspots in libraries, unis, cafes
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  • Saturday, the 27th February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: I finished FF12! Only took three years!

    Augmented Reality

    Gizmodo:
    -The Frightening Future of Augmented Shopping

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch:
    -Alt Space: A Step Too Far

    Film

    io9:
    -Will Kick-Ass Kill Superhero Movies?

    Wired Game|Life:
    -Light Cycles, Disc-Fu Juice Tron Legacy Trailer
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  • Friday, the 26th February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: Aw, he lived? That's bullshit.

    Gaming

    Gamasutra:
    -In-Depth: We Make Characters That Look Like Us?

    Kotaku:
    -Transformers: War for Cybertron Preview: A World Without Michael Bay's Robots
    -Where Have All the Zombies Gone?

    Film

    io9:
    -The Real Problem with Midichlorians

    Curios

    Boing Boing:
    -The brain and intelligence

    Srs Bzns

    Boing Boing:
    -Pentagon fesses up to 800 pages' worth of potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
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  • Thursday, the 25th February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: This is what I get for yesterday's subject header, isn't it.

    Gaming

    Gamasutra:
    -Blog: Games, Disability and Anti-Discrimination Laws
    -Blog: Needs More Cowbell: Why Publishing Producers Sometimes Dictate Design
    -Opinion: On BioShock 2 and Why Return Beats Renovation

    Wired Game|Life:
    -Active Time Babble: Discussing Final Fantasy XIII for 2 Hours
    -Q&A: Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway Says Wii May Have Peaked

    The Atlantic:
    -Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem

    GOOD:
    -Videogames' Slow Move Toward Accessibility

    The Brainy Gamer:
    -Sequel 101

    Insult Swordfighting:
    -Why we need sequels

    PopMatters Moving Pixels:
    -Is Suda51 the Alfred Hitchcock of Video Games?

    The Game Critique:
    -The Nature of Reading: Interpretation and Auteurism using Final Fantasy VIII and Mulholland Drive

    Border House:
    -Bayonetta -- some initial impressions

    Indie Games:
    -Interviews: Kenta Cho, Tyler Glaiel, Hello Games and More

    Kotaku:
    -Why We Play Games, and Why We Grumble About Them
    -Heavy Rain Explores Player Depression with Freezes and Glitches ... :(

    Animation

    Cartoon Brew:
    -Animated Review of Avatar

    Curios

    Boing Boing:
    -RIP, Hummer

    io9:
    -Nothing is Ever Junk When It Can Be Reembodied
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  • Wednesday, the 24th February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: I like it when it's not all game articles. Makes me feel more socially adjusted.

    Fandom

    Kotaku:
    -Fan Creates Final Fantasy VII Sequel Demo

    Gaming

    Gamasutra:
    -Critical Reception: Sony/Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain
    -Analysis: When Console to PC Conversions Go Awry

    The Independent:
    -Control freak: Will David Cage's Heavy Rain videogame push our buttons?

    Kotaku:
    -What Your $60 Really Buys

    Film

    Kotaku:
    -NSFW: Kirsten Dunst is Your Magical Nerd Princess

    Boing Boing:
    -Murakami "Akihabara Majokko Princess" with Kirsten Dunst

    Cartoon Brew:
    -James Cameron: "I'm not interested in being an animator"

    io9:
    -Build Your Own Hometree with Exclusive Avatar Concept Art

    Music

    GameSetWatch:
    -Sound Current: 'Kenji Kawai - Game and Anime Intersections'

    Curios

    io9:
    -Why Pea Aphids are the Most Awesome Organism
    -Are We Using the Right Methods to Find ET?
    -The Trippy Techno-Mythology of Japanese Science Fairs
    -Behind the Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie
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  • Tuesday, the 23rd February 2010

    Daily Link Roundup: Do we really care that much about cover art?

    Fandom

    Kotaku:
    -A custom-made Naked Snake
    -When a Spartan Loves a Stormtrooper

    Augmented Reality

    Gizmodo:
    -A More Awesome (But Maybe Creepier!) Way to Facebook Friend That Girl You're Talking To

    Gaming

    GameSetWatch:
    -Opinion: Sweating the Small Stuff - What's Still Wrong with Games

    GamePolitics:
    -Study Examines the "Displacement Effect" of Videogames

    Wired Game|Life:
    -What Videogames Can Teach Teachers
    -Hands-On: Overhauled StarCraft II Welcomes Strategy Noobs

    Kotaku:
    -Video Games in Space Nixed Over Fears of Space Station Hacking
    -Get Your Superior Heavy Rain Box Art Here

    Animation

    Cartoon Brew:
    -Animation Legends and Facebook

    Film

    io9:
    -Which Type of SF Movies Has the Best Rotten Tomatoes Scores?

    Srs Bzns

    Boing Boing:
    -ACLU and EFF on school where spy-laptops were mandatory

    Dead Horse Corral

    Gizmodo:
    -China to Everybody: Hacks! Hacks? What Hacks?
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