A little more GameSetLinks esoterica - and you'll find me, below, raving about Anthony Lane's New Yorker film reviews - and hoping we find more writers talking about games in similar ways.

Of course, it's not really that game commentary can't be as spicy as Lane's rhetoric - I suspect some of it is. It's just dependent on being literate, witty, and using context in delightful ways, rather than being rote or using mundanity. Or something. And here's those links:

It’s All About the Beat « Save the Robot - Chris Dahlen
'We’ve been lurching around finding hope in one clunky piece of narrative-based gaming after another, yet music games excel almost effortlessly.'

YouTube - Justice's 'DVNO' music video
Couple of tangential game things in this - first, Sega font, secondly - why don't more people (besides GTA Vice City) set games in the '80s?

Kevin Kelly: '1,000 True Fans'
Incredibly important for games, too: 'A creator... needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.'

The weirdest legal pleading ever. - By Bonnie Goldstein - Slate Magazine
Jack Thompson's legal document ravings make it to Slate, in a Smoking Gun stylee, hah.

Posts tagged Gdc Quest Quiz at Joystiq
Cute idea - Tim Schafer's responses just posted - via Metafilter.

Giant Bomb » Blowing up this summer
Gerstmann's new joint, in case you did not notice.

Crispy Gamer: Have the Big Three Learned from the Saturn's Mistake?
Steven Kent goes back into order to go forward.

'Beamed Down': The Current Cinema: The New Yorker
This review of Jumper made me heart Anthony Lane real bad and think about who does similar in games (Penny Arcade?) - all pop culture reviews should be this literate and witty.

David Hellman: The Art of Braid, Part I: Early Abstracts
Braid artist on creating the v.interesting visual style.

Retro interview: Phil Harrison 13 years ago | GamesRadar
Great idea for the exhumation, analysis angle.