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Nov 25 2009 IGF Reminds Entrants Of Student Showcase, IGF Mobile Deadlines

[Just a final reminder for the IGF student and mobile competitions for 2009, which are finishing up this weekend and Monday respectively - good luck to all the entrants, both competitions have had some...

Nov 23 The 'Gamer Guilt' and Morality of Fable 2 [Game Design]

David Nieborg has a thoughtful essay up over at Valuable Games on the subject of Fable 2 and its moral system — and the relative success (or not) of that system. As Nieborg points out, it would...

Nov 23 ECA Boss Says Joe Lieberman is "Misunderstood" [Hal Halpin]

In a wide-ranging interview with Crispy Gamer, Hal Halpin, the president of the Entertainment Consumers Association, calls Senator and gamers' preferred punching bag Joe Lieberman "largely misunderstood...

Nov 23 Cliff Huxtable Announces New Grand Theft Auto SKU? [Flith Flarn Flarn Filth Flarn]

[sarcasm] Speaking in Greenwood, Miss., noted games industry insider Bill Cosby announced a new version of Grand Theft Auto IV. This one apparently costs $250 and has some extras, and not a key to Liberty...

Nov 23 'To Do: Finish Any Game' [Game Design]

Tom Endo has a nice essay up over the Escapist on the issue of finishing games (or not finishing games, as the case may be). "What other medium," he queries, "allows us to be so blithely indifferent to...

Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

OK, gang. I think the fun is over. Many of you pointed out that the Golden Lancer for Gears of War 2 is now either 99999 points or won't download. I tried to cue it up again and got the can't-download...

Nov 22 [Updated] Gold Lancer Removed, Revoked; Consider Lootathon Over [Great Banjo Lootathon]

Nov 22 [Updated] Free Golden Lancer Joins Early Banjo, CoD:WaW Extras in XBL Lootathon [Banjo Kazooie]

This is big enough to warrant an update I think. Reader Shawn B. found, in the great Xbox Live Loot Bonanza, that you can in fact get your gold plated Gears of War 2 Lancer, for free, off XBL via the web...

Nov 22 CFP/Scholarship Application: Foundations of Digital Games '09 [Call For Papers]

I spoke to Professor Jim Whitehead of UC Santa Cruz yesterday, and at the end of our conversation he brought up the 2009 Foundations of Digital Games conference. FDG will run from 26 - 30 April, 2009...