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What do you get when you smarten up a clunky browser-like interface and drag access to all its goodies down local-like? Try the new PlayStation Store interface, coming sometime in April, localized and optimized to make browsing for content less…

No, it’s not a day-early April Fool’s story, sorry as that sounds to report. According to this ad, “a national newspaper…will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person” for the answer to the question “did computer games make you…

Another casual game that is set to keep you playing all night long ? well at least it kept me up all weekend! Actually, Airport Mania has not yet been officially released. Created by Reflexive Media, the official release date is sometime in April. Lucky for me and you ? and the [...]

Imagine a future in which the only devices you use to access applications for work or play are little more than empty digital shells. Imagine a game like Grand Theft Auto or World of Warcraft run not from a local…

Here’s a followup to my earlier rant reacting to a Times Online report suggesting that the UK plans to slap cigarette-style health warnings on video games. The report behind all that hoopla’s now out, and among other things, it calls…

Imagine spotting a label on a video game that reads “Quitting Gaming Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.” Now stop imagining, because according to The Times, video games in the UK will shortly be forced to carry cigarette-style…

Just how accurately are weapons in video games modeled after their real life counterparts? I’m going to venture an educated supposition that the answer has a lot to do with how you react to the aim-and-trigger abstraction of a gamepad…

If you’ve hacked your Xbox 360 save files in order to falsely inflate your Gamerscore, standby to see your Xbox Live profile sullied for good. If you care at all about Microsoft’s meta-scoring system that tracks player achievements in games…

Roger Ebert is famous in gaming circles for writing that games will never be art in the sense “serious” films and books are. That, according to never-deferential Ebert, is because “video games by their nature require player choices, which is…

That games development is a global phenomenon anymore goes without saying. So what happens when French game developers find themselves in the economic crosshairs of national governments? Develop’s Rick Gibson speculates pointedly (and poignantly) here, exploring the pros and cons,…

As you?ve probably surmised, I have been shopping this weekend. Together with the copy of Skate, which I reviewed in the previous post, I also got a copy of Dynasty Warriors 6 for PS3 ? a game which I have been waiting for for quite some time now. It came out a month [...]

Most of the time I read gossip blogs like Joystiq and Kotaku purely for their entertainment value. But this post kind of bugged me, because I read it, checked one of the source sites, and was left like a lot…

When your day job unfurls in random news bites and “oddly enough” bulletins, holidays pass like traffic along a distant almost out-of-sight highway. Is today a holiday too? It is in France. My wife who’s been in Lille since early…

I have been playing Skate since I was able to download its demo from the PlayStation Home. To be honest, I never really was interested in buying the game. For one, I am no skateboarder in real life. I think that if I even dared to try it I would be the [...]

We?ve all heard about how violent video games can bring harm to people who play them, especially the young people. More often than not, hardcore gamers get sick of these studies and proclamations of violence making players immune. That is why when I read this blog post on a study looking at the [...]

Games don’t need writers, but when you think about it, they don’t really need designers either. Not in the conventional sense we mean when we trot out those labels, anyway. That’s my responser to Adam Maxwell of Dopass.com, who wrote…