  Bookmark and Share Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 It isn't really a
song about video games, of course. However, it is interesting
for what it implies about games by taking gaming for granted as
a normalized cultural practice.  I know that Lana Del Rey is
receiving all kinds of critical backlash at present from the
music community about her authenticity as an artist, her botched
SNL performance, and the like.  However, one way or the other,
“Video Games” is a rather beautiful song.  It strikes a pretty,
but mournful tone that is full of a melancholy, uncertain
nostalgia from a twenty-something-years-old artist, and it has
managed to solder itself into my consciousness pretty
effectively in recent days.  Bookmark and Share Saturday, Feb 6,
2010 There's a new emergent music game being sold for charity
with tracks by a wide variety of musicians.  There’s an
excellent emergent music game that has just gone up on Xbox Live
that you should check out if you can spare 400 Microsoft
dollars. It’s called Chimes, and the compa