U.K. developer Free Radical Design is challenging traditional payment practices at independent studios by offering its employees overtime pay for work outside normal hours.
In the wake of the January 2007 cancellation of Official PlayStation Magazine by Ziff Davis, publisher Future U.S. has announced it will be launching PlayStation: The Official Magazine.
The British Board of Film Classification has just launched Parents BBFC, a website that shows visitors videogame and movie ratings as determined by the organization.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has said he doesn't feel threatened by the recent release of Halo 3, and that once again Nintendo won't be able to meet demand for its Wii console over this year's Christmas season.
Chris Mottes, top man at Deadline Games, cautioned against using outsourcing as a quick and cheap method of producing games and urged a long-term view in a recent interview.
Ultima creator and Origin founder Richard Garriott is set to become the first "second-generation astronaut," with plans for a trip to the International Space Station in October 2008.
ARROWGAMÉ (pronounced "arrow-gah-may") follows a grand tradition of games of battle, and achieves a zen-like balance of aesthetics and destruction. Two forces stand opposed, seated, with an index card between them. Playing is poetry. Each time the card is creased, hell breaks loose on the lined battlefield. Arrows against arrows. It is gruesome to watch, and yet I cannot look away.
Like just about everywhere else in the world, Halo 3 set new sales records following its launch in Australia, surpassing the previous first-day entertainment launch record held by the third movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King.
