The Nukezilla Sunday Supplement – July 10th 2011

Every Sunday we’re going to post links to articles we think are interesting from the last week. Sundays are usually very quiet around here, so this seems like the best day to do it. We’re going to link to articles on range of subjects, including videogames, technology, movies, geek culture and much, much more.

Videogames

How Sid Meier Civilized Social Gaming – Gamasutra. “Renowned game designer Sid Meier tells Gamasutra how his traditional “find the fun” design philosophy can translate to the fast-paced, metrics-based world of social gaming, with his latest title, CivWorld.”

Xbox Live Indie Games: no way to make a living – Ars Technica. This is an utterly brilliant piece of looking at the realities of publishing games on Microsoft’s Xbox Indie Game platform, highlighting the depressing reality that it’s almost impossible for developers to make any real money from it. Really worth a read.

Technology

New Technology, But Same Old Lies – The New York Times. Lying isn’t anything new, but this post looks at how lying in the age of text messaging and social media, where everything is traceable but where little white lies become more and more needed.

The Paperless Cockpit – The New York Times. An interesting post about how pilots are replacing pounds and pounds worth of paper manuals, flight details and other important thing with iPads, bring various benefits to pilots and airlines.

Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end) Scobalizer.com Google+ launched this week (I just got in this weekend) and while it’s rather impressive, there’s questions about who will use it. Here, Robert Scoble argues that instead of worrying about getting your mum to switch from Facebook us geeks should use it as a haven.

History & Politcs

Murdoch’s Watergate? – Newsweek. The Murdoch hacking scandal exploded this week, culminating today with the shock closure of the News of the World, a 169 year-old newspaper. Here, Carl Bernstein (the journalist behind the Watergate reporting) gives his opinion on the saga.

Science

Andrew Chaikin on Space Exploration – The Browser. An interesting interview with science writer Andrew Chaikin picking out his five favourite books on the American space agency, NASA. He takes you through five brilliant books as well as giving you some thoughtful insights as the shuttle Atalantis takes off for the last time.