Before you kick into gear, let's read this week's best writing about games (and game related things).

Over on Hit Points, Nathan Brown contemplates games industry showcases and how many of them are going from bad to worse.

A casual viewer of Geoff Keighley’s not-E3 show in June would have come away with the impression that the game industry is obsessed with sci-fi horror.

For Outside, Sean Williams wrote about Kurt Steiner, a legendary stone skipper who believes the world should find the sport.

on our second evening, when he fashioned a can of Monster energy drink into a makeshift bong, we’d spoken for 12 hours straight.

For Vice, Sarah Spitz wrote about the Tamagotchi breeder on her 65th generation of the virtual pet.

A quick-ish read on Alicia Kostoglou, a prolific Tamagotchi collector who runs multiple bloodlines of these cute virtual pets and literally has bags filled with Tamagotchis.

Why not a renewable energy source eh Disney?

Also why are you off the energy grid even, in terms of every single oven in the game?

Why is renewable energy not even an option?