Gaming News:
Kane & Lynch Ads Banned… Five Months After
Release
GamePolitics
Better late than never?
Industry Types Discuss How Video Game Biz Can Police
Itself
GamePolitics
A panel at this week’s MI6 conference pondered
how the video game industry might police its own content in an era of intense political attention as well
as potentially chaotic user created content.
Analysis: 49 Million U.S. Gamers Buy Used Games
Gamasutra
At this year’s MI6 game marketing conference in
San Francisco, the MI6 organizers exclusively commissioned global consumer research and consultancy firm
OTX to study the video game resale market in the United States.
Top 20 console features no-one uses
GamesRadar
DS’ thumb strap and 19 other utterly redundant
console features
Can Video Game Marketing Teams Make Better Xbox 360
Achievements?
MTV
It’s not likely Microsoft knew how much of an
influence Achievements would have on the industry.
Defective Xbox 360s — the tale continues
Mercury News
I spent a lot of time in 2007 on the subject of
defective Xbox 360s, as did my former colleague Dean Takahashi.
One million signatures to keep Uwe Boll directing
Joystiq
We feel kind of dirty giving any sort of attention to
the cancerous boil on film directing that is Uwe Boll, but when the guy is acting this freaking weird we
just can’t help ourselves.
Wii Gets A Pretty New GameCube Controller
Kotaku
Gorgeous. Nintendo are releasing sometime later this
month a new, white GameCube controller, no doubt to satisfy the growing throngs of not only Smash Bros (and
soon to be Mario Kart) players, but Wii-white console colour fetishists as well.
Doctor
clarifies MMO addiction research
GameSpot
Psychologist says findings of Asperger’s traits
among hardcore Asheron’s Call players have been overly simplified in recent reports.
How to Make Games User-Friendly
Next-Gen.biz
Developer columnist James Portnow has 10 ways to
improve usability in games. Here are the first five…