There has been a slew of interesting gaming posts this week on MetaFilter.
Pope Guilty introduces us to Visual Walkthroughs, which kick-started a discussion on video game difficulty.
chunking express chimes in with a post on City 7, a Half-Life 2 mod of Toronto.
blahblahblah points us to Virtual NES, a Java NES emulator. (Don’t count on that lasting too long.)
zabuni posts about Cicada, a composer inspired by the sounds of 16-bit video games.
Effigy2000 celebrates the release of Super Mario Galaxy with a retrospective of the SMB franchise. Don’t miss this comment from inconsequentialist.
Meanwhile, Soup has The Orange Box covered with some Half-Life 2 parodies, the skinny on Jonathan Coulton’s now-famous Portal song (with some great discussion on the game in the comments), and a Team Fortress 2 linkfest.