London-based training studio Escape has widened its recruitment services to all those looking for work in the games and visual arts fields. Until today, Escape’s recruitment service was open to those that studied at the company’s arts facility in London’s West End.
The BBC, Sumo Digital, the Mill and MPC (The Moving Picture Company) have already [...]

ChartTrack has confirmed to Gamesindustry.biz that PS3 shifted 165,000 units in its first two days on sale, beating Wii’s 105,000 units and Xbox 360’s 70,000. There are issues with the semantics of terms like ’shipped’ and ’sold’, and the Gamesindustry article uses the latter.
Of course, direct comparisons are troublesome here as both Nintendo and Microsoft [...]

Via Wonderland comes news of the finest easter egg I’ve ever seen: Red Nose Day was built into Lego Star Wars 2.

Donations earn players a code that unlocks red noses :)
(P.S. Toby did this ;) )

First this is not a ‘games’ post it is a ‘life’ post.
Bruce Nussbaum was a pioneer in championing design and innovation at Business Week US and is perhaps associated to a large degree with innovation being annoted as ‘the new black’. This is probably one of the best essays on the current state of design [...]

I’m seeing the uncanny valley everywhere right now. It’s something I wrote about in the context of visual aesthetics 18 months ago, but since then I’ve realised it has a much wider scope. Watch the beginning of this video (Ignore the Havok physics title, it’s Euphoria by NaturalMotion):
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A self-righting Indy with gripping hands impresses me… [...]

2007 Game Developers Choice Awards Topped By Gears of War Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios’ Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War won Best Game at the Game Developers Choice Awards, hosted by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The title also picked up awards for Visual Arts [...]

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 [...]

In what may be remembered as the best speech of this conference, Vivendi’s global director of strategic growth Nichole Bradford today called on the industry to act on its responsibility towards the education and aspirations of young people.
She told an audience of developers to show leadership to young people, and excite them about their own [...]

The PS3 version of SingStar will hit Europe in June and the US in the autumn.
The PS3 version of the game relies heavily on the PlayStation Network. The previous versions of the franchise, which were all purely disc-based, have already sold seven million worldwide with 30 songs on each disc, delivering a total of 200 [...]

2007 Independent Games Festival Awards Topped By Aquaria Bit Blot’s dreamlike 2D underwater adventure game Aquaria won top honors, collecting the $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game, at the 2007 Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards.
The winners were announced tonight at the 9th Annual IGF Awards ceremony, hosted by the Game Developers Conference [...]