It’s the weekend, a time for rest, relaxation and copious amounts of reading. What? What do you mean that’s boring? Wait, come back!

• In a similar vein to last week’s Black Ops video (lauded as “an FPS so good you don’t even have to fire your weapon to play it!”. Just now. By me.) here’s one intrepid gamer’s attempt to play Kinect Joy Ride with out moving a muscle. Spoiler, he comes in third.
• Tom Pakinkis at CVG wished the Xbox 360 a very happy fifth birthday earlier this week, and then promptly exhorted it to just die already. I’m not sure I find his case all that compelling but, well, have a read and make up your own mind.
• Over at The Escapist, Yahtzee takes Force Unleashed II to task for being, um “too much”. Too much of what, you ask? Too much of everything it seems. It’s an interesting analysis and proof that his written columns can be much more entertaining that his rapid fire Zero Punctuation videos.
• I was writing about Minecraft before it was cool yo, but here’s its creator Markus “Notch” Persson talking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun about his former life, the game’s success and starting his own development team.
• Uncharted, the ace PS3 series that plays out very like a modern Indiana Jones movie is getting a movie adaptation. For some reason. Marky Mark Wahlberg has been cast as Nathan Drake. That sound you heard was my head hitting my desk, by the way.
• After casual game maker Zygna was exposed as a bit of a monster a while back (something we’ve talked about in a previous edition of WR) the charm counter-offensive seems to have gotten underway with this frankly sickening piece of sycophancy in the Telegraph. The piece claims every day is “Bring your dog to work” day at the company. They fail to mention every day is also “How can we rip off someone else’s idea?” day.

Ugh. I feel a bit nauseous after that. Here’s a happy-happy joy-joy chaser courtesy of Pope Friction and their interpretation of a Billy Joel classic. I give you “The Wii Didn’t Start The Fire”:

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