Greg Costikyan on Luck in Games

This transcript of Greg Costikyan's lecture to the Game Developers Conference in Austin a few weeks ago, titled "Randomness: Blight or Bane", is probably the best thing I've read about games in months.

There's an understandable emphasis on videogame design principles, but he also makes a number of interesting points about Chess, Poker, Go, Settlers of Catan and many other wierd and wonderful games people have played throughout history. The holy trinity of "educational, interesting and entertaining" don't often come together in one big package, but here it is. In fact, I'm so enthusiastic, I'm linking to it for a third time here just to be sure you don't miss it.

Now where can I buy his book?