Interesting tidbit on the PSP Go: Some retailers are getting arsey about stocking a device aimed exclusively at digital distribution, because they can’t sell games for it.
It smacks of King Canute. As things turn to digital distribution, refusing to stock platforms will surely send business elsewhere and hasten the ebb of bricks and mortar?
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Sony also delivered their keynote hot on the heels of Nintendo last night (GMT), announcing a raft of new games, the leaked-last-week PSP Go, and their own motion control prototype for the PS3 offering 1:1 motion sensing. Both Sony and Nintendo showed very similar looking archery demos with their 1:1 controllers, though I’m curoius to [...]

LittleBigPlanetoid brought this very interesting nugget to my attention on Monday: Companies have been asking Media Molecule to add their IP to a whitelist for LittleBigPlanet, meaning that rather than being treated as copyright infringement, works based on their things will be treated as fan art or free marketing, and allowed to stay in place.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or this is the only source you look to for videogames industry news, you’ll probably have heard that Little Big Planet is delayed, and all copies recalled, due to there being phrases from the Koran in the soundtrack.
Copies are still available in some places, with pre-cut versions fetching [...]

(Above: Preliminary artwork from the development of Braid)
It’s unprecedented: The Daily Mail have given a gushingly positive review to a videogame, Braid. The Daily Mail, of course, has been at the front of many a “ban this sick filth” campaign against nearly every controversial game of the moment. As Destructoid put it, “British tabloid in [...]

gamesindustry.biz have posted an interview with Ste Curran, creative director at Zoe Mode and presenter of One Life Left.
I saw Ste present at GameCity 2007, and he’s sharp as a tack. In this interview he points out that, though the Wii has made some mass market changes, it wasn’t the first or only thing to [...]

Phil Harrison’s GDC keynote explains plans for new PS3 Home online community network.
In his GDC keynote Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison has told the development community that software driven by user-communities, such as as its new virtual world Home, will “empower the next decade of growth in our industry all around the world”.
Sony will [...]

At GDC today, Mark Healy and Alex Evans, part of the core team behind Sony’s new LittleBigPlanet, talked about how their company, Media Molecule, became such a prominent Sony partner. They also said why the company chose to go with the PS3…
ImageEvans and Healy likened the founding of Media Molecule to “falling into an abyss.”
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The internal technology teams at Sony Computer Entertainment have teamed up to deliver PlayStation 3 Edge, a new set of tools for developers working on the format-holder’s new console.
Due for imminent release to PS3 developers, PlayStation 3 Edge has been put together by three first-party technology teams within Sony, the WWS Europe Advanced Technology Group, [...]

SCEE’s developer-only event DevStation returns in May with a three-day conference targeting PlayStation 3 development.
Taking place from Wednesday May 2nd until Friday May 4th in London, UK, the event is designed to help industry development delegates “get the most out of PlayStation 3″.
The 2007 will hope to continue the sucess of previous DevStations that have [...]