Greg Costikyan offered a great opinion piece on Gamasutra the other day, about a lack of culture in games leaving the only options in extremely forgettable licensed IP. What makes it a particularly strong piece is the examples he gives of the incredibly homogenised boardgame mass market of the US, and the strongly cultural market [...]

How to do very bad PR in a short space of time: Wait until the community for your upcoming MMO starts asking about how the game might handle homosexual relationships, then get your communuity manager to shut down every thread of discussion saying “Those terms don’t exist in Star Wars and we’ll have no further [...]

I’ve just had a hectic month, with GDC, research projects, X48 and Get In The Game all falling within the same few weeks. Things should be back to normal soon, our apologies for the lack of posting this month.
While out at GDC, there was a massive amount of hype about OnLive, a newly announced startup [...]