I don’t think that anyone would be surprised if I mentioned that I was a fan of the doge meme. Now, the meme has an origin story. [Verge]

A lot of people blame the bomb that was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within for Squaresoft having to merge with Enix to survive. The truth runs much deeper than that. (Note to self: Watch and review The Spirits Within and follow-up with Advent Children.) [NeoGAF]

History tells us that Bitcoin might be popular now but, like other private currencies, it will eventually die off. [Bloomberg]

Did you know that there’s a Guinness World Record for the largest video game collection? A New York man owns a collection of over 11,000 games. [Business Insider]

Metacritic did a roundup of their gaming review scores over the last twelve months. By their metrics, it was a rough year in gaming. [Metacritic]