Does it ever seem like you spend more time reading websites about video games than you do actually, you know, playing them? Gaming news blogs, traditional gaming sites, video sites, Wikipedia, Google, GameFAQs -- they're all tied together in a complicated knot that sometimes seems hard to escape. This piece is for anybody who's ever wasted an afternoon refreshing blogs and reading about obscure Neo Geo games on Wikipedia while the game you spent $50 on last week collects dust...




When he's not refreshing a half-dozen gaming blogs at once, Nathan Birch also writes and draws the webcomic Zoology, and his work can be found in the book "You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking But Utterly True Facts."