A comment in this interview with Rebellion’s AvP Director, David Brickley, got me thinking recently about DLC. Largely thanks to the online capabilities of seventh gen consoles it’s a sometimes controversial revenue stream that’s grown fast over...

If you haven’t seen Axe Cop, go and read it now. Seriously. It’s an amazing collaboration between a 29 year old comicbook artist and his (much) younger brother. It shows what happens when you give a 5-year...

“Pay with Facebook” is coming. It’s already live on Happy Aquarium from Crowdstar. Later this week, it’s coming to Farmville, the most popular application on Facebook with over 70 million monthly players. It’s big news. And most...

Last week Times Online published this Iain Duncan Smith piece, in which the former Tory leader talks about children, and tax and booze… and briefly mentions violent video games. The relevant paragraph is this: “Innocence, he warns,...

Good (but old) piece on the different philosophies behind Playfish and Zynga. Worth a read. http://bit.ly/2kugfi # RT @charlescecil Broken Sword – iPhone video posted – take a look: http://bit.ly/4QSLIh # Just posted: Scientists behind “games cause...

Earlier today, a number of newspapers ran sensationalist headlines that claimed a causal link between games and rickets. I tried to debunk the story simply by reading the same press release and publicly-available extract available to the...

UPDATE: I’ve emailed the scientists behind the research. They stated “We do not say that gaming causes rickets”. You can see their full views on the misleading press coverage at http://www.gamesbrief.com/2010/01/scientists-behind-games-cause-rickets-deny-a-specific-link/ I know I shouldn’t get angry...