Consollection really has a good, documented set of games console images. Look how far the industry has come!

Parliament commissioned an educational game: MP For A Week. Nicholas Lovell Dan Griliopoulos reviews it on Games Brief.
It guises as educational, and to an extent is, but it also smacks heavily of PR, as Nicholas points out:
The win element also implies that bad MPs always in the long run are losers, which is not strictly [...]

Develop posted this piece recently, interviewing Saint John Walker from Skillset about the accreditation criteria and plans for Skillset. It’s an intersting look inside what’s been a fairly shrouded process to most people.
Of course, the debate about Skillset’s role is far from over, with plenty of criticisms being leveled by universities. One of the [...]

I’ve heard reports of interdepartmental awkwardness for years at the BBC, which is apparently why Channel 4 have raced ahead in games while the BBC have failed to commit. Until now, that is, since BBC Worldwide are now courting developers and publishers to develop their IP into videogames. They seem serious this time too, hiring [...]

mTrends put up an interesting project this week: dozens of futurists consulted on what they think will be the state of mobile in 2020. Some of it is straightforward extrapolation. Some of it reads like marketing, and is indeed from marketing people or executives fom mobile companies. A few of the predictions are things that [...]

Matt Jones from BERG has been nominating console games for the Designs of The Year Exhibition, and they keep getting rejected.
On one level, I can see why: shooters such as Left 4 Dead 2 and Bioshock and aren’t the kind of things that represent games particularly well to outsiders, even though they may be visually [...]

Spotted this one off physical pong set on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories the other day:

You can read about the full build on their blog.