Note that this image only intended to depict unfinished singleplayer campaigns, not “unfinished” multiplayer modes (of which there are many). Christmas break can not arrive soon enough.

Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos.

I could spend hours on end sifting through this site. Also, their archives page is extremely well thought out.

An interesting discussion regarding mobile platforms, consoles and their respective technical constraints.

A modern, top-notch, triple-A title costs many tens of millions of dollars to develop. If you have 60 or 100 people working for multiple years, it’s just really damn expensive. And, when there’s that kind of money on the line, there is an unavoidable degree of conservatism that comes in. You want to do things that you know people love and you want to make it better and polish it, but you really don’t have an opportunity to go off into left field—that’s really, really risky, and people don’t want to bet their company on things like that.

• Grickle — the foundation for Telltale’s Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent.
• The Times has an article on speed stacking that is worth a read. Apparently, “up- and down-stacking six pyramids in just over six seconds” is humanly possible.
• Valve knows how to properly announce a title being delayed. From the Portal 2 press release: “This two month slip not only marks the shortest delay in Valve’s proud tradition of delays, it represents the approaching convergence of Valve Time and Real Time”.

A new version (0.5.6) of the Shortcode WordPress plugin has been released, allowing you to get the total number of images attached in all posts & pages with the code photosingallery.

As always, look at the text file located at www.maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt for all available shortcodes.

If you don’t have Trials HD yet, buy it.