Best Speedrun EVER

Pointless, yet Awesome department:

Seen in Game Developer Magazine: Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack. Someone discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in a Pokemon game that lets you insert (almost) arbitrary code by rearranging items in your inventory. After about 11 minutes of bizarre inventory manipulation, he's taken over the code enough that the normal game essentially enters the Matrix. The 'game' then can accept high-speed programming input from the buttons, and around the 12:30 mark, turns into a MIDI player performing the theme song from My Little Pony.

When bad interfaces do good things

Tom Chick writes insightfully about some of the competing goals of game UI: When bad interfaces do good things

Jon Chey article

Here's a great article on my old colleague Jon Chey, with a lot of talk about his forthcoming indie game, Card Hunter. http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/2/5/3950872/bioshock-card-hunter

Sharp-eyed viewers may spot a much younger jducoeur in a group photo :-)