An excellent piece in yesterday’s New York Times by computer game writer Mark Wallace on “New Games Journalism,” his term for the narrative, experiential approach to describing the effect of the game on the player.
As games becomes increasingly immersive the old-fashioned “previews” that currently make up mainstream game reviews are giving way to a much [...]

Hollywood was apparently paying attention last year, which was the first year that the worldwide video game market’s revenues (US$24.5 billion) exceeded revenues from movie box office reciepts. Of course, various Hollywood players have tried unsucessfully to break into gaming before, but this time it’s serious. Mercury News is reporting that multiple Hollywood studios are [...]

My ideas for the edinbugh games festival:an open letter to the industry:
after much thought and deliberation i think i have it.

it terms of contrevsial, intersting, provacative and deliverable i’ve got it.

“the need for a british games institute” a call to arms

“film is dead, long live games” (hard [...]

This will be my new job. once i work out how to make it work.The UK games Industry needs help. help from the government.like the film council, or the design council.the anwser is the BGI.it will be based in a posh new building in lemington spa or derbyit will house an incubation facility, culture development, [...]

I am going to use my blog as an MCV archive list.each Friday when MCV arrives I hope to highlight the key articles, and store the MCV’s.then if I need to find something I can just search my blog. Genius huh!

Publishes rather than any forced legislation are changing our industry when it comes to the mature end of the wedge.
“Supported” by the dti and DCMS (who are “protecting our children” thank god ) this is an extract of their comments:
All computer games, which are rated 15 or 18 by the BBFC (British Board of Film [...]

A nice double exposure picture from journalist Jon Jordan.His other photos

2014 Museum of Media HistoryThe year is 2014, The New York Times has gone offline and amazon and google are combined to form googlezon. Media as we know it does not exist.welcome epic to the worldeveryone creates, everyone consumesgooglezon collates.very good