Music is a huge part of my life; as a drummer and a DJ there is rarely a moment in which I don’t have something on my iPod that I am listening to. With such a diverse taste in music…

Creating a new Intellectual Property is often a big gamble for publishers. The success of a new IP can often hinge on a few review scores and if enough buzz is created from the advertising campaign. For example, Assassin’s Creed…

The ESA (Entertainment Software Association) is one of the largest video game lobbyist groups (much like the NRA for the gun industry) in the United States, although that may not be true for long. Recently a mass exodus of developers,…

Alas, here we are. It’s late May in 2008, and there is something missing. It’s certainly not the first year, and unfortunately it won’t be the last. The Electronics Entertainment Expo is, as we knew it, gone. If you can…

Bloomberg.com posted the January sales figures for the new gen consoles yesterday (as well as reposting the December sales figures). But what can we really learn from them? Lets start with the sales figures themselves….

“Horse armor.” I saw that vein in your forehead twitch.

Microtransaction is becoming a household word for gamers. It’s also becoming a dirty one. It’s not all bad, but it is starting to be abused. By now you’ve probably heard about…

You may have heard of microsoft’s effort to open up the Xbox 360 to indie developers and hobbyists called XNA. The XNA game studio express software has been in beta for a few months now, with the promise of a final…