Mersey Remakes

Gamasutra: Pondering Indie Spirit With Derek Yu.

Derek always gives good interviews and is an entertaining read, but no-one could have predicted the absolutely bizarre comments section explosion that followed. Darius has a great overview here but for me, it’s the Gamecube Game moment that stands out amongst the madness. Random? Totally. Funny? Definitely. Depressing? Equally.

World Of Stuart: The Complete Indie Zone

Stu was doing this shit before it was cool to do so. Indie Zone was priceless coverage at a time when you were lucky to get a single column inch, never mind a mini review. Great to have them all collected and archived in one place.

Incidentally, WoS subscribers can grab themselves a code for SYNSO 360 from the subscribers forum, there’s still a couple left at the time of writing.

Paleo Future: Looking Forward To 2010 (1910)

Any excuse to link to Paleo Future really.

Rands In Repose: Gaming The System

Fellow L4D’er and RR regular and all round lovely chap Tam Toucan pointed me towards this one. Interesting read if definitely not my “game type” for want of a better phrase.

Edge: The Making Of Q-Bert

This has been floating around for a few months now. I’m late but hey, shoot me.

Out Of Print Archive

How the shit did I miss this? I miss the days when magazines looked like this.

“…well, if you can do that, and do all this other stuff as well, you’re fucking golden. Why quit when you do the important stuff? Why not carry on pressing, because if it matters this much to you, you won’t be able to stop.”

Gillen on Dejobaan’s excellent Aaaaa(etc…)