Daily links: August 26

Disney's Donkey Kong-alike, Breakout obsession and Media Molecule's fridge.
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Disney's Donkey Kong-alike, Breakout obsession and Media Molecule's fridge.
1Chris Crawford's classic 1982 text is now available on Kindle. Even today, it's still a fantastic survey of the art, science and philosophy of game design - at $3.44 / £2.14 how can you say no? (OK, it's been freely available as a PDF for ages, but it's nice to have a chance to support the author.)

Comprehensive guide to the Halo universe gets the thumbs up from Microsoft.
Edge Reader Jarrad looks back on a number of predictions made in the early eighties.

James Portnow reviews Jesse Schell's The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses and is flabbergasted.