Jane McGonigal  on the Colbert Report McGonigal is plugging her new book, Reality is Broken . I just added that book to my wish list too...

A collection of links I've read recently, most having something to do with game design. From Play This Thing! Auctions as a Game Bala...

If you are a gamer and don't already know who Jane McGonigal is, then you should watch this. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better ...

Found on Barking up the Wrong Tree .

Strange and annoying, but somehow compelling. Click thru for the video. My life is complete: Mario performs 'Don't Stop Me Now...

No robots today - This is a short film - Engine 371 by Kevin Langdale about ( stay with me here ) the Canadian Transcontinental Railroad. ...

In the previous posts in this series ( 1 2 3 ) I have been describing the probability distributions generated by dice and trying to descri...

This 9 second video has been making a big splash on the gaming sites : Lots of people have beaten me to this one, click for the most recent ...

Pint-Size Battling Robots at Engadget Click-thru for several more videos.

This book is one of the optional texts for Ian Schreiber's Game Design Concepts class I signed up for this summer. Ian Writes: Unders...

[Via Jesper Juul at The Ludologist ] PAC MAN (REMI GAILLARD) by nqtv ~

Visit scenic Hakodate, Japan, a city well known for its frequent alien attacks, and witness the rampaging mechanical squid battling the gig...

Question: What is the greatest game, ever? The answer, of course, is that there is no best spaghetti sauce . That link will take you to 17 ...

On the Critical Hits I found a Youtube video titled "Hitler's Battletech Game Goes Awry", which was fairly amusing. However, ...

Erno Rubik has a new puzzle coming out this summer. [ Hat Tip 2 Critical Gamers ]

If only they had legs. No trees die, but this thing is kind of cool. Watch it climb the hill. A toy skidder!

Barry Nalebuff ( 1 2 ) is a Professor ... excuse me ... the Milton Steinbach Professor at Yale School of Management . He is an expert in...

Wouldn't it be great if you could hop into the cockpit of your very own 10 meter tall walking war machine and cruise the battlefield jus...

[via Science Punk , via Loquacious at MetaFilter ] Part 1: and Part 2: Louis Zocchi is a great one ... but now I may have to replace all my ...

Catch this T4 teaser at IO9.com . ( Maybe Mecha Moses will save us from the Mecha Terminators?)