The Shadowrun Returns Kickstarter Page shows that this fundraising campaign is complete, and that over 36,000 backers have committed over USD $1.8 million to Harebrained Schemes' continuation of the cyberpunk RPG series. The game's kick start in place, they point the way to the Shadowrun Universe Website, where they have opened new forums dedicated to the project.

Valve offers the following list of the ten bestselling titles on Steam for the past week:

1. The Walking Dead
2. Torchlight II
3. Sniper Elite V2
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Risen 2: Dark Waters
6. Serious Sam 3: BFE
7. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
8. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
9. Dead Space
10. Legend of Grimrock

• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Playable at MLG Spring Championship.

• Nintendo Hurt by New Rivals.

• Wozniak loves Windows Phone 7.5. He seems to just love smartphones.
• Encrypted browser for iPad and iPhone. Thanks Ant.
• Gravity Blocks on the iTunes App Store.
• Kick the Buddy- Second Kick Free on the iTunes App Store.

• First 802.11ac WF-Fi router coming from Netgear. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Mozilla to kill Firefox 3.6 by auto-upgrading old browser. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews, Here’s How You Fix It. Thanks Ant via Boing Boing.

• Nvidia uncorks world's fastest video card, the GeForce GTX 690.
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Previews on Bjorn3D, HARDOCP, and Hardware Canucks.
• Retail Core i7-3770K goes on sale but it is rated TDP 95W instead of 77W.
• Foxconn Brazil workers reportedly threaten strike over working conditions. Thanks HARDOCP.
• John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++.

• Teen sues over Facebook bullying. And bullies herself to the world via the Streisand Effect.

• Botanicula on Destructoid.
• Shogun 2: Total War – Fall of the Samurai on CPUGamer.
• A Valley Without Wind on truepcgaming.
• Vessel on PC Gamer.

• Antec HCG-620M 620W PSU on Nikk Tech.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7″ 16GB on t-break.
• Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 Overclock Edition Graphics Card on AnandTech.
• GIGABYTE Z77MX-D3H Motherboard on Vortez.
• Zowie AM Gaming Mouse on Metku.
• Zowie Mousepads on Metku.

Thanks Ant.

• Download And Play Chex Quest 1-3 For Free…
• Jane McGonigal, Designer of SuperBetter, Moves Games Deeper Into Daily Life. Thanks Neutronbeam…
• Interview with Tex Murphy creator Chris Jones on Adventure-Treff…
• Game Giveaway of the Day – Magic Sweets…

Well, it's a sporting weekend, filled with ups and downs for New Yorkers. The Giants seemed to do pretty will in the NFL draft, especially considering they were picking last (I've long ago given up trying to make sense out of what goes on with the Jets). Also, the Rangers won game one of their second round playoff series, which is good considering their close call in the first round. And then there are the Knickerbockers. For a Knicks fan, losing to Miami is about as painful as it can get. I say about, because it turns out losing by a 50% margin (100-67) is actually even worse (though a vast improvement over the 100% margin the game's 62-31 score represented at one point). Oh well, it only counts as one loss. And sympathies to Derrick Rose and Bulls fans, his injury is the last thing an NBA fan would want to have happen. Here's hoping he can eventually make a complete recovery.

Recovered Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Surplus Soldiers.
Links:	Paintball with human -fox- as target. Fictional Characters You Didn’t Know Were Based on Real People. Thanks Neatorama. Navigating Garry Marshall’s Long, Mostly Successful Hollywood Career. Thanks j.c.f.
Stories:	Bangladeshi computer whizz kid eyes record books. Thanks A51Abductee. Hundreds of 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never used. Thanks Boing Boing. Three dead, one missing in yacht race.
Images:	Poor Dr. Hedgehog.
Media:	Shazaam: The Lazy Genie. Justice League Trailer (Avengers Style) Parody. Monkey Food Reward Experiment.
Follow-up:	With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC.