Curt Schilling talks about the stress of the failure of 38 Studios. [Boston Globe]

Tesla’s CEO was very much against letting their signature car in Project Gotham Racing 4. It was quite a comical blowup over licensing and how the car would be represented. [Jalopnik]

A new study says that playing StarCraft can improve your cognitive abilities? Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science! [Slashdot]

New research shows that about 60% of the world’s online porn is hosted in America. USA! USA! [BetaBeat]

Archeologists in Turkey have found 5,000-year-old board game pieces. I believe that Wil Wheaton lost that game too. [The Verge]

Warner Bros. is reportedly looking for an actor in his 40s to play Batman in Batman/Superman (AKA Man of Steel 2). [Hollywood Reporter]

I trust that proper Doctor Who fans aren’t worried about the casting of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. Just in case you still are, it turns out that Capaldi wanted to run the official Doctor Who fan club back when he was a teenager. [Digital Spy]

It’s not just Americans who are having their email searched by the NSA. If you’re sending an email into America, it’s being read too. [New York Times]

One of the devs working on the upcoming indie title Road Redemption talks about how games go wrong in development using the specific example of Ride to Hell: Retribution. [Road Redemption]

Sebastian Moss lets you in on a little secret about VG247. They have a terrible internal policy about sourcing which undermines the real newsbreakers and would seem to favour their parent site, Eurogamer. You already know what I think about the state of gaming journalism. Glad to know I’m not the only writer concerned. [PlayStation LifeStyle]

Having trouble watching YouTube videos? It’s likely not YouTube’s fault or the speed of your connection but your ISP screwing you over. [Ars Technica]

With Google Glass expected to take the world by storm before too long, can current mobile networks the additional bandwidth the device will require. [Washington Post]

Microsoft is struggling to get traction with any of its new products, not just the Xbox One. There’s a systemic flaw in Microsoft’s marketing that’s killing all of their products on launch. [Penny Arcade Report]

The folks from Obsidian talk about developing KOTOR 2, the content restoration work by modders and their plans for KOTOR 3. [Eurogamer]

Team Meat were contacted by a “producer” who wanted to make Super Meat Boy: The Movie. They proceeded to mercilessly troll him. [Indie Statik]

Steve Haske puts his thoughts about the current path of the games industry into words far better than I ever could. For the record, I agree with a lot of what he says here. [Medium]

You may not know the name Nate Wells but you know his work. He started as an artist on Thief and System Shock 2 before moving up to Art Director for BioShock and BioShock Infinite. Yeah, he’s kind of a big deal. [I.Eat.Games]

Despite getting good reviews, including from this outlet, Retro/Grade was a commercial failure. Now, creator Matt Gilgenbach is working on a new game drawing on the mental health issues that resulted from the financial failure of his game. [Polygon]

Some developers are impressed by their sales on the Ouya. Given some of the Kickstarter model impressions, any sales would be impressive. [GamesIndustry International]

How big is Google? Their web traffic is bigger than Facebook, Twitter and Netflix combined. [CNET]

The UK government is funding a revolutionary new rocket engine technology that could see spaceplanes reach orbit from a runway take-off. Basically, spaceplanes, rather than rockets, could be making trips to the International Space Station inside the next ten years. [The Guardian]

Steam sales are a great thing for gamers because we get the opportunity to play new games for a relatively cheap amount. However, these sale do play with us on a psychological level. [The Psychology of Video Games]

The Nintendo Famicon, known over here as the NES, turned 30 years old this week. Here’s a look at the history of the console that returned gaming to the living room. [Ars Technica]

The new Falskaar mod for Skyrim adds 25 hours of new content including a new area, new characters, voice overs, a soundtrack and more. Most impressively, the project was spearheaded by a 19-year-old aspiring designer. [PC Gamer]

A Pennsylvania man was temporarily the world’s richest man with a fortune of $92 quadrillion. Then, PayPal corrected its error and he was a middle class schmuck again. [CNET]

The stories about NSA’s PRISM surveillance program aren’t going away any time soon, nor should they. Here’s a look at how Microsoft worked with the NSA to give them access to your communications. [The Guardian]

Last year’s Indie Game: The Movie was a great look inside the world of video game development. In the three or so years since the movie was made, what has become of the featured devs. [Game Informer]

MLG is planning to expand its program offerings beyond live streaming its events. This will include highlights, interviews and analysis programming. [Forbes]

Not only does Hollywood have a bad track record of making movies from video games but they have an equally poor track record of making their own video games. [Kotaku]

Not only is EA out of the action on the Wii U but it sounds like Activision and Ubisoft aren’t bullish on Nintendo’s console. [Games Industry]

With the NSA gathering scads of data about you, here’s what you can learn about someone from examining just six months of their phone data. [Business Insider]

How important are fans to selling video games? A Google report shows that almost half of the videos posted to YouTube about gaming are created by the community with the majority of post-launch content created by the community. [Google]

You wouldn’t peg Kenya as having a growing games industry but here’s a look inside the birth of game development in Kenya. [Polygon]

An Australian study finds no link between violent video games and anti-social behaviour. In other news, the sun rose this morning. [Gamespot]

The Retronauts are back with a crowdfunded season of their classic gaming podcast. [Retronauts]

This weekend is the last weekend that we’ll have Google Reader. While I scramble to find an adequate substitute, Om asks why Google wants out of the RSS reader market when everyone else wants in. [GigaOM]

PayPal has announced PayPal Galactic. That’s a joke, right? [Digital Trends]

How does Edward Snowden protect against NSA eavesdropping bugs? He uses his refrigerator. [New York Times]

When the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race looks for a CPU and graphics card for their gaming rig, their first choice is usually Intel and NVIDIA. So why did Microsoft and Sony go with AMD rather than Intel or NVIDIA? [Forbes Tech]

Microsoft might have removed used games restrictions to match Sony but that doesn’t mean that the big publishers are on-board with that. [IGN]

We’re ten days from the death of Google Reader. If you’re still looking for an alternative (like I am), here are some options. [BGR]

Not only does the PlayStation 4 have the Xbox One on price and privacy concerns, but it may also have the better controller, too. [PA Report]

Well-regarded European game magazine Gamereactor has committed a major faux-pas by scrubbing Ellie off the cover of an issue about The Last of Us. [Destructoid]

Skulls of the Shogun is coming to Steam soon but its path to the digital distribution service was undermined by troubles with all of the Windows 8 hoops they jumped through with Microsoft Studios. [RPS]

I might be going into Game of Thrones withdrawals. I’m actually linking to a post called “Game of Thrones Season 3 As Infographics.” [Vulture]

Jim Sterling owns Microsoft completely in song in this week’s edition of Jim & Yahtzee’s Rhymedown Spectacular. [The Escapist]

Despite the fact that Microsoft’s used games policy for the Xbox One seems geared to benefit Gamestop, it seems a war is brewing between the two. Rumours suggest that Gamestop is handing out flyers explaining some of the Xbone’s restrictive “features.” [Gimme Gimme Games]

The developers of Oddworld say that they’re ready to release their game on Xbox consoles but can’t because Microsoft is stonewalling them with their no self-publishing rule. [Eurogamer]

Have you been looking for a fully-interactive map of the world of A Song of Fire and Ice (on TV as Game of Thrones)? I’ve got it for you. [QuarterMaester]

The WWE is really into mobile apps because it’s the latest shiny thing to grab Vince McMahon’s attention. The WWE is working on their second mobile game starring a wrestler as a race car driver. So wrestling writer extraordinaire Brandon Stroud recasts Mario Kart using WWE wrestlers. [With Leather]