Barring a few upcoming and typical tabloid smears on video games, the dust now seems to have settled on the Byron review. MCV have been doing exhaustive coverage of the reactions to it, the biggest of which has been PEGI raising serious concerns about the applicability of BBFC ratings to online content.
It’s not a bad [...]

The BBC have inked a deal with Nintendo to make the iPlayer a channel on the Nintendo Wii. It’s a smart move given the number of Wiis around, and the iPlayer as it stands is naturally more at home in the strictly orthodox confines of a console network or the iPhone.
Watchification really hit the difference [...]

GameCity 08 is spinning up for this October, and seem to have added a large nightclub to their list of venues. I can’t wait to see what they do with such a space; last year they had people playing Wii games on a huge screen in the middle of Nottingham’s Market Square.
There’s news out at [...]

Bill Fulton has written an excellent (and sweary) article about online behaviour for Gamasutra. He talks about the problem of abusive players, who have plagued multiplayer games in the form we know them for a decade or more. Since the advent of voice communications and online console gaming, have become particularly bad, and the answer [...]