Weekend Reading: October 20th

Here's some stuff to keep you entertained this weekend.

Games

• Verge/Polygon: Inside the composer's (dead) space
• PA Report: $2 million in prizes, millions of viewers, and a packed house: the LoL Championship in pictures
• PA Report: Taipei Assassins triumph in League of Legends world finals
• reddit: Starcraft 2 will be dead before Legacy of the Void if Blizzard doesn't change its course
• Forbes: Starcraft 2 Struggles as League of Legends Rises
• Forbes: Further Thoughts on Starcraft 2 and League of Legends
• Verge/Polygon: Obsidian's 'Project Eternity' Kickstarter ends with record-setting $3.98 million in funding
• PA Report: Doom 3 gets another chance, with new content that shows id still knows how to get it done
• RockPaperShotgun: WoW’s J. Allen Brack On What Lies Beyond Pandaria
• Forbes: 'Borderlands 2' Captain Scarlett And Her Pirate's Booty Review: DLC Done Right
• PA Report: Nitronic Rush devs on racing game controls, and building an engine from scratch
• Forbes: 'Chivalry' Developer Talks Kickstarter, Medieval Combat, And More
• Verge/Polygon: Crytek taking free-to-play seriously with 'Warface'

More links after the jump.

Hardware and Peripherals

• AnandTech: NZXT Phantom 820 Case Review: Everything, Everything
• Tom's Hardware: Declining PC Sales Not Derailing SSD Market in 2012
• DealNews: High-Capacity SSDs Finally Match the per-GB Prices of Smaller SSDs
• Tom's Hardware: AMD FX-4170 Vs. Intel Core i3-3220: Which ~$125 CPU Should You Buy?
• Tom's Hardware: Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October 2012
• AnandTech: Memory Performance: 16GB DDR3-1333 to DDR3-2400 on Ivy Bridge IGP with G.Skill

Everything Else

• Destructoid: The Wii is blatantly better than Barack Obama
• PA Report: Can video games make it as a mainstream spectator sport in the US?
• Gamespot: StarCraft II pro gamer Stephano suspended and fined for sexual comments
• Gamasutra: At retail, the big games are still selling (even if nothing else is)
• Ars Technica: Why I pay extra for "business-class" broadband at home
• Ars Technica: Eidos president: Low broadband speeds are holding the game industry back
• Hulu: SNL Skit "Tech Talk: iPhone 5"
• Destructoid: We have a file on you: The tools & tricks of social games
• Verge/Polygon: Nintendo president and engineers discuss development of Wii U GamePad
• Ars Technica: Valve waives $100 Steam Greenlight fee in new "Concepts" section

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