This one's not ostensibly about videogames, but Google's report on its energy consumption is an eye-opener for the in-the-cloud future of gaming we're headed towards. Gmail generates 1.2kg a year per user, which, Google rather convolutedly claims, equates to less than the energy it requires to drink a bottle of wine, stuff a message into the bottle and throw it into the sea. To match the amount of energy it takes to make and ship a DVD, Google claims it would take three straight days of watching YouTube. That produces 3kg of CO2. In case you hadn't spotted it, Google's greater message is that cloud services are efficient, and scale allows investment in greater efficiency. OnLive is looking more attractive by the day.
Deus Ex Unreal Revolution, the parody mod that transforms the original Deus Ex into Human Revolution with 'cinematic takedowns' and wrist blades (we especially enjoyed the awkward surreal dream sequence which features Eidos Montreal art director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête), has been released for download.
We hope you're playing Quarrel if you've an iOS device. If not, you should be - and if you're having trouble, its co-designer, Gary Penn, has put together a fiendish list of two-letter real words that will help you decimate even Kali.