links for 2008-10-27

The full text of Sepinwall's interview with Weiner — I'm not going to quote any one thing, because there's too much there, but needless to say it's worth a read if you've been following the show at all.

Releasing new singles as flash games is a very logical step, and this one works fairly well, but hey PC music games, can we stop using the number row to play? It's really not the most natural mapping in the world.

Believer's online exclusive with Doseone: "You know how every Thom Yorke song has the mountaintop note in it? And Björk, too. It’s like they’re on the mountaintop giving birth to five babies, all the stars coming out of their bodies, celestial, planisphere touching all over the place. They hit that note all the time. I really respect both those artists and I can’t sing like they can, so what we tried to do on this record was apply one of the great truisms of rap, which is that you cannot kick the same style twice. So I transmuted this age-old, cockeyed rap tenet that should never be fucked with and applied it to vocals."

Sweet little processing video from Shaw-Han 'I Am Robot and Proud' Liem.

If I ever owned an establishment that had them, Yoshitomo Nara is basically exactly who I'd want to do the Boys/Girls signs for the bathroom doors.

And here's the boy's.

Producer Clint Hocking unexpectedly drops by for a very civil and enlightening discussion with PC Gamer UK's Tom Francis on the structure of Far Cry 2. Super good form, and unfortunate that it catches us off guard when it occurs.