Extenuating Circumstances

"Patty Duke and George Takei show you how to “Boldly Go” to www.socialsecurity.gov" Wait, what?

"ON APRIL 19th 2011, Skynet went berserk; two days later it began a killing spree and tried to enslave the human race." Sometimes, I really heart The Economist.

Not the Fourth Wall you're looking for…

Portal 2: now with free advertising!

"Furthermore, we will soon launch the biggest alternate reality game with Angry Birds ever – be prepared to seek for clues around the world to discover the secrets hidden in Angry Birds Seasons!" Zomg.

Portal 2 ARG may not be complete slam-dunk success for Valve, but they're Valve, so it's OK.

Leaked Geohot settlement agreement.

Geohot apparently agreed to an injunction not to jailbreak/mess with the PS3 anymore, but it looks like his way of dealing with that is to publicly call for a Sony boycott and to encourage people to file for declaratory judgment.

Non-commercial use only.

Kinect PC SDK might be available from May 16 with support for automatic skeletal model detection and microphone array.

Aw. It's like the Trail, but for the Potato Fools Day Portal 2 ARG.

Morally dubious 'intern app' from digital education provider Hyper Island press release includes badly written and un-proofed press release.

Awesome LMT in PDX at NE and PDX airport

I'm only going to join this after Tom Coates has.

GDC Online 2011 call for submissions

Lots of people play games on tablets. Most tablets are iPads.

I'll pass on whether I think this is a good idea or not, but it certainly explains why Kiip's a different take on traditional in-game advertising.

Massive congrats to the Bloom team

$100k, inclusive of sweat equity, to make a good game.

of IBM Data Baby and Tron Legacy and a whole bunch of other stuff

Human-readable American-style block addresses from lat/lon.

"The Random House Publishing Group (RHPG) and THQ (NASDAQ:THQI) announced today a pioneering step in transmedia – the establishment of a joint team to create and develop original intellectual properties ("IP") for publication across multiple mediums." THQ drops the T-bomb with Random House.

Pointed to by Tom Carden

Ex-Criterion staffers/founders form iOS studio

Production house partnered with Weinstein Bros

"TWC Games will work with production company Beefy Media to help it reach out to the gaming biz and establish strategic relationships with game publishers. Beefy Media is a game production firm that works with IP holders to build new gaming franchises for both digital and retail."