We took these as our tshirts were in development.  Thought we might share:

Our first ever batch of T-Shirts have arrived (#1-3), and they look awesome. New ones will be made to accompany each Pixel-Lab event.
Printed on heavy Jerzees T-Shirts, these will make you the envy of developers everywhere. Each design features a game in our Hall of Fame, it’s designer, platform of choice, and year of. Conditions [...]

Jeff Minter has threatened to quit game development after Llamasoft’s Space Giraffe was outsold by Frogger on Xbox Live Arcade. Writing on his sweary livejournal page:
not seeing a lot of reason to continue even trying to make games, at this point, when a remake of Frogger, one of the worst games in the history of [...]

Microsoft just published a survey of parents with a report written by Margaret Robertson. BBC News have a story on it here:
More than 75% of parents are concerned about the content of video games played by their children, a survey suggests.
Almost half of the 4,000 parents surveyed in the UK, France, Italy and Germany said [...]

Jonathan Blow, Developer of Braid, was widely reported in the past few days as describing games as junk food:
“MMOs have empty gameplay but keep players hooked with constant fake rewards. Would players still play our games if we removed these scheduled rewards?”
“Rewards can be like food, nutritionally beneficial, or like drugs, artificial. We overuse drugs [...]

Late notice I’m afraid, but via Andrew Oliver comes this news of the last IGDA Midlands Chapter meet of 2007. It appears to have acquired new format, since Andrew was on our panel for the last Never Mind The Polygons ;)
The last IGDA meeting for this year…
As winter draws on and Christmas approaches, we would [...]

Kuju has added two brand new studios to it’s stable, doublesix and Nik Nak. Respectively from Gamasutra and Next Generation:
Officials from British developer Kuju have announced that the company has established a new studio named doublesix, which will be dedicated solely to developing downloadable games for Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, WiiWare and the [...]

Activision and Vivendi Games to merge
(http://www.activisionblizzard.com/)
In a surprise deal over the weekend, moves have been made to creates the world’s biggest publisher, called Activison Blizzard
(worth a total of $18.9bn) in the most surprising news of the year, Electronic Arts has been dethroned as the games industry’s biggest publisher, ousted by a new company formed [...]