Rockstar’s UMD Documentary.GTA publisher premiering low rider film on PSP.
Looks like movie distributors aren’t the only companies excited about the prospects of UMD video; Rockstar Games have announced Sunday Driver, a documentary film about low riders that will premiere on UMD later this year. UMD is the new propreitoty ‘mini-DVD’ like format that stores [...]

Landscape paintings by a group of 19th Century American artists have been the unlikely source of inspiration for the look and feel of the new Harry Potter video game
Growing up

Concept art of the Triwizard level (Warner Bros copyright)

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“The aesthetic is growing up,” explained [...]

From KG:“Review of Quantic Dream’s fascinating Fahrenheit which I wrote for The Guardian. Long-form review, of about 1000 words. There’s also some additional material I wrote about the games which lead to Fahrenheit – Omnikron, Shenmue, Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey.”
For a respected national newspaper to run a full-page review of a videogame, for [...]

At the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo revealed the new controller for their next generation console – the “revolution”. Mainstream, fun, gaming for everyone. Innovation, and ideas. Well personally I would call this the nail in Nintendo’s coffin. People seem to confuse innovative with different. Its a remote control. Yes it [...]

Beijing-based gaming exec Bill Bishop posts on his blog that he’s hearing “strong rumors” that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is in talks to buy NCSoft, publisher of the huge Korean virtual world Lineage, as well as City of Heroes and most recently Guild Wars. Bishop notes:The price would be high, but strategically it might fit [...]

Continuation of the sports MMO market
“There are more similarities between sports games and other genres than would be immediately evident. While golf and baseball games have “down time”, games like football (and soccer), hockey and basketball are pretty fast paced with a lot of action. These games have elements of both action games and platformers [...]

With England suddenly sports superstars again, I have been researching sports games, and found this coverage of sports MMO’s by buttonbashing.com
“A while back I mentioned I had been playing a Golf MMORPG called Shot-Online. Since then, I’ve been back for a round here and there and my overall impression of S-O is that it’s an [...]

Cyan Worlds Inc, created of Myst, Riven, and importantly Uru is now closed.Due to lack of funding!Rand Miller is the last man standing.MMOG just gets harder and harder doesn’t it.Is there a flaw somewhere, does the business model not work, or is it something else?Grey Dragon’s Blog“Almost all of Cyan Worlds, Inc. was laid off [...]

Aleks at the Guardian has done us proud at pixel-lab with a great mention on her blog.
She sights new business stars of tomorrow as potential sources of funds for new developers.
Skilset’s recent work around course accreditation focuses on creative teachings – programming, art, game design et al. This is mainly as it is felt [...]

Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. announced the upcoming release of its first massive multi player 3G mobile game.
The new game is based in its style and core functionality on the Company’s award winning v-girl™ and virtual boyfriend 3G game series. The game establishes a massive multi user mobile virtual community and is custom [...]