Name-your-price video game bundle for charity for charity. Had me at Psychonauts.

The Villains Wiki is dedicated to creating a database of all known villains from all media.

The things you find when trying to recall the name of the final boss in Chrono Trigger for a school assignment.

I’m a total sucker for these kind of self-improvement lists.

Brendan Keogh writes smart things about video games and publishes them lots of different places. However, it was not ever thus. Here he recounts the path he’s travelled to reach what appears (from the outside, at least) a level of relative success and satisfaction. As we’re in the throes of the Emerging Writers’ Festival at present, I found much of his advice worth considering, and the following particularly apposite:

There is no tried-and-tested way to break into videogame journalism. There is no tried-and-tested way to break into any kind of writing.

Tom Gauld is definitely in my top three comic artists.

I’ve struggled to find an answer to this exact problem for weeks, and then came across it entirely by chance this morning. If you use Gmail or Google Apps as a catch-all for a bunch of different email accounts, and you use Apple Mail, you probably want to use this setup.

The following is neither as witty nor as insightful as I might like, but it is sincere, so here goes:

I would like to thank Monash University, both for their ongoing support of The Emerging Writers’ Festival and their particular generosity and foresight in inaugurating this prize. (I would probably be better served by the word “instituting”, both for ease of pronunciation and the subtle pun it affords, but never mind.)

To my fellow finalists, congratulations – I cannot wait to read all of your pieces, and I thank Penguin for the opportunity to do just that.

To the staff of the Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT, who have been without exception excellent, and to my peers in the program, who continue to be even excellenter, thanks.

To my family, who aren’t here tonight, thank you for your love and support. To my most lovely and patient partner Nina, who is, thank you for your everything.

Finally, thanks to the Emerging Writers’ Festival, especially under the auspices of Lisa Dempster, for all of the opportunities, the confidence and the camaraderie you’ve given and continue to give to both myself and so many others, and without which I would not – could not – conceive of myself as a writer today.

Thank you all.

I’ve always wanted an excuse to pick up one of Panic’s finely crafted pieces of software. A feature-packed new version plus a limited-time fifty per cent discount should just about do it.

Worth it for Murakami alone.

I feel a rage inside me to the power of 100,000 cats. I am Cat God, motherfucker.