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I’m not as passionate as some people are about video game reviews (and how flawed they may or may not be.) I think there’s clearly room for improvement in the way the average review is conducted...

Jun 29 Combatting Antisocial Behavior

The Freakanomics blog is worth subscribing to, if you haven’t already. Via it comes word of a neat experiment: in the psychology department coffee room at Newcastle University, prices for tea and...

May 13 Predictably Irrational

I just landed in Sweden for the Nordic Game Conference and I’m trying to stay awake for several more hours in order to get my body accustomed to the time difference. So I apologize if this read...

Apr 7 Articles of Interest

When games give way to interactive art. (Cryptic description, I know. I’d also thought of calling this “the most unique reason to purchase a game I’ve ever seen.”) Everyone should...

Feb 13 Games and Violence

As I mentioned several months back, my friend Ethan Mollick and I are writing a book tentatively titled For Fun and Profit: How Video Games are Transforming the Business World. As our publisher’...

Sep 5 Raptr - Social Gaming Network Enters Public Beta [Raptr]

Jan 8 Playstation 3 Invades Yankee Stadium [Ces]

Playstation 3s will be showing up in every suite of the new Yankee Stadium and in a gaming zone for non-rich folk, as part of a new agreement between the stadium and Sony Electronics.
The plan will bring...

Jan 8 Fable II's Knothole Island DLC Hits Next Week [Fable II]

Fable II's Knothole Island hits Xbox Live worldwide on Jan. 13 for $10 (800MP). And the expansion isn't coming without gifts. Even gamers who don't purchase it will get some freebies next week.
Knothole...

Jan 8 "How Do I Change The Color Of SoulCalibur Female Underpants?" [Maximum Risky]

This is serious stuff. Very serious. An interoffice Namco conversation regarding changing panty colors for the Dreamcast version of SoulCalibur. No, really.
According to the individual who supplied these...

Jan 8 Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together [Sony]

Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn't it? Does to Sony.
In...

Jan 8 No Men Allowed (For A Long Time Now...) [Purikura]

Girls only. Japan's Asahi Shimbun has an article about how Japanese arcades are banning men from sticker picture machines. Why'd they do that?
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...

Jan 8 Sony Pictures Dates Ghostbusters Game [Sony]

The release date for the Ghostbusters game has been announced by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in a Ghostbusters Blu-ray movie release — accidently announced, maybe! Doh.
A Sony Pictures pre...

Jan 8 The Kinetics of Pinball [Pinball]

The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games.
The interview...

Jan 7 EGM, RIP

If you're following the sale of 1up.com and the mass layoffs that ensued on Tuesday afternoon, you'll likely soon be reading a bunch of blog posts and goodbye letters from the dozens of displaced staff...

Jan 7 Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii [Ces09]

SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii.
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the...