Weekend Reading - August 11th

Here's your weekly batch of news, interesting articles, and random stuff:

PC Mag: Microsoft's Massive Metro Mistake
Looks like we might be following the Windows cycle after all - skip Vista, buy Windows 7, skip Windows 8.
Tom's Guide: How To: Make Windows 8 Feel Like Windows 7
On second thought, maybe we should buy Windows 8 and just turn it into Windows 7.
Forbes Blog: First Look Inside The Curse League Of Legends Beverly Hills Gaming House
Curse's reality-show-meets-gaming-house LoL stream goes live this weekend.
DiscoveryNews: Salty Hard Drives Have More Bytes
Sounds like someone knocked over some salt while eating lunch and figured out how to increase HDD density by a factor of six.
Ars Technica: Ars staffers exposed: our home office setups
Ars staffers post pics of their work areas - take a look and maybe get some inspiration to reconfigure your desk (or at least clean it off).
Verge/Polygon: Video: The evolution of PC games
"Music" video composed with sounds from PC games throughout the years.

More after the jump.

Tom's: It's Official: Steam Expanding Beyond Gaming
Ars: Steam moves beyond games, will offer variety of software in September
Verge/Polygon: Valve to sell non-gaming software on Steam starting September 5th

Tom's: Valve Reportedly Working on Source 2 Engine
Some guy dug through Source Filmmaker and found references to the Source 2 Engine - which is good since Source is like 8 years old.
Verge/Polygon: En Masse Entertainment hit with layoffs
TERA studio lays off a bunch of people.
Tom's: Gamer Claims to Have Made $10,000+ USD in Diablo 3
Apparently someone is still playing D3, which is news in and of itself.
PA Report: Behind the scenes with the Oculus Rift: the hardware that could change the way we play games
I can't help but look at that thing and think "Virtual Boy."

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