We’re currently putting together X48 for Microsoft and Channel 4, and as part of that we’ve been researching some interesting indie games. One of the most unusual is Minor Battle, which is a 2D combat game with a wraparound arena. The unusual part is that it’s designed to be played on four monitors arranged as [...]

Sorry, bit of a linkdump of a post, but this has been a major story for the UK games industry for the past few days. Late last week, the Change 4 Life campaign launched in the UK, attacking sedentary lifestyles and using a passive looking child with a PS3 controller for all the imagery.
MCV are [...]

It’s been a fairly slow news week for the games industry, but there are rumblings about pre-owned game sales, with Toys ‘R’ Us now trialling pre-owned game sales in New York.
Somewhat surprisingly given the kind of statements that grab headlines, games industry dialogue on the subject seems to be moving away from whining about [...]

Chris Remo from Gamasutra and Idle Thumbs documents the last hours of Tabula Rasa:
By the afternoon, the West Coast server Hydra was the last server standing. As more and more of its citizenry logged on for the last hurrah, and foreign players from dead servers poured in to squeeze a few more hours out of [...]