http://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here. In the age of better metrics for games, some developers take it too far and let the numbers make their creative decisions. This generally leads to trouble. (IT news)

http://techcrunch.com – Microsoft Korea will close its research and development unit by the end of next month, reports Asiaone (h/t TNW). The company announced last year that its Asia-Pacific R&D Center will be headquartered in Beijing, which represents Microsoft’s largest R&D investment outside of the U.S. (IT news)

http://askubuntu.com – everytime i got into terminal and run sudo apt-get install conky i get screen pop up in my terminal saying.. "TrueType core fonts for the Web EULA │ │ END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE │ │ IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY: This Microsoft End-User License Agreement │ ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you..." dont know how to get past this and continue with Conky instalation. (HowTos)

http://serverfault.com – I have been using Hyper-V Server 2012 (the free, core edition) for a few months now, and every day, the server dutifully generates this error in the Application log: HYPER2012 8208 Error Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP Application 1/18/2013 10:00:14 AM Acquisition of genuine ticket failed (hr=0xC004C4A2) for template Id {67a81643-c828-3e62-341f-a5bd2a25048d} It doesn't affect anything, (HowTos)

http://serverfault.com – We have some scripts that create scheduled jobs using PowerShell as part of our application. When testing them recently, I noticed that some of them always failed immediately, and no output is ever produced (they don't even appear in the Get-Job list). After many days of tweaking, we've managed to isolate it to any jobs that are set to run weekly. (HowTos)