March 9, 2010
Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica
— related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton #
Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac
— Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games" #
Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
— fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information #
8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York
— he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide #
Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
— watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead #
Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music
— very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine #
GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story
— scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen #
Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
— he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts #
NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"
— very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year #
YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos
— a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now #
Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation
— nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories #
Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead
— radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots #
NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line
— hear the women's 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second (via) #
Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project
— even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license (via) #
Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2
— don't miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron #