Top five things about Rich that make me pull my hair out: 1) His conviction that Harry Potter is the Christ, or Christ figure, or whatever he calls it 2) His use of the word “brilliant” for everything, most of which is hardy brilliant 3) His indecisiveness about which video game system is the best 4) The fact that he continually second guesses the value of the CAPC podcast, but continues to produce it 5) The fact that he doesn’t... Read more

Here’s a more in depth interview with the OnLive Founder. Some really good stuff here. Read more

Yesterday Ben and I recorded the new podcast, to be published on Friday. In it, we get into quite the debate about various subjects. Since the coming episode will be characterized by a lively debate, I thought I’d share my list of… Top 5 Things Ben and I Don’t See Eye to Eye On Note: My view is the first listed in every entry, followed by Ben’s. Ordered by degrees of Epic Proportions the debates often take on. 1. Obama... Read more

Over at Wired.com, Clive Thompson tries to figure out why Peggle appeals to so many gamers, be they casual, hardcore, hard-casual, or casucore: Getting Lucky: Hard-Core Gamers Penetrate Peggle’s Physics . Read more

Hate Facebook’s new look? You’ll like it soon enough. Read more

I was surprised to read about this, this morning. And when I was ready to write it off, I read that a “raft of major publishers” including EA, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Atari, etc. are on board. This could be big: A games startup called OnLive will be coming out of stealth mode today at the Game Developers Conference. Here’s the proposition: they take the heavy processing part of video games and move it into — and I apologize for using this... Read more

How the Kindle will change the world. Read more