MachineMachine /stream - tagged with best http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26639/Opinion_The_99_Best_Free_Games_Of_2009.php Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009, compiling his take on the best 99 free to download video games released this year. This past year will go down for me personally as the year in which my spending on video games plummeted, due to personal dissatisfaction with the costs in money and time demanded by most of the AAA products out there on the shelves. To that end, I’ve since turned my eyes towards the burgeoning… ]]> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:50:00 -0700 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26639/Opinion_The_99_Best_Free_Games_Of_2009.php Top 50 worst videogame voice acting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:12:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbotKa5LnM&feature=youtube_gdata Fifty Books for Our Times http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300?digg=1 We know it's insane. We know people will ask why on earth we think that an 1875 British satirical novel is the book you need to read right now—or, for that matter, why it even made the cut. The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is. What we do need, in a world with precious little time to read (and think), is to know which books—new or old, fiction or nonfiction—open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help… ]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:00 -0700 http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300?digg=1