Video Game history is littered with unbelievably poor titles that should have never seen the light of day. Typically, they are a result of some cross-promotional tie-in or a project that was rushed to market in an attempt to capitalize on a passing fad. Having been burned by a few of these woeful purchases in the past, it was with great joy that I watched the lambasting of Back to the Future on the NES. This game truly does scrape the barrel for the worst of the worst. Have a look if you don’t believe me.

Using voice recognition in Microsoft Vista makes you sound like a deranged lunatic!

Gametrailers.com recently ran this interesting look at what they are calling the Top Ten Video Game Weapons of All Time. While some of the choices and rankings may be a bit questionable, you have to give them credit for looking at the entire canon of videogames and not just the most recent first person shooters.

This is a clever “movie trailer” promoting Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book The Long Tail. For those that are unfamiliar with the long tail concept, the book theorizes that the advent of the internet and all the new time- and place-shifting technologies have enabled producers to capitalize on the long tail of their inventories. Instead of needing huge hits to be profitable, they can market much larger, more diverse libraries and work further into the long tail of consumption. Basically, instead of needing to sell one million copies of one product, it is now possible to sell 100 copies of 10,000 different products without incurring a huge increase in distribution costs.