Industry Developments
Beware: Serious videogame nerdery ahead. Feel free to defocus your eyes for a couple of minutes before going back to your regularly scheduled web-browsing.
IBM seem to be setting up some crazy Illuminati-style secret society on their own private island in Second Life.
The unexpurgated, slightly scary history of the Gizmondo: High-speed Ferrari wipeouts, the Swedish mafia, and fake police IDs, oh my!
After years and years of heavy metal music being considered the great corrupter of children’s fragile minds, Slayer vocalist Tom Araya decides to try to divert attention from his band by saying that videogames are too violent. Apparently Katamari Damacy is much more brutal than being obsessed with Nazis…
Thirteen Oblivion mods that should really have been included in the shipping package.
Veteran games journo John Walker takes to the streets of Bath dressed as a wizard to see if RPG stories are realistic in assuming that ordinary people really will accept quests from random strangers.
Finally, noted genius-lunatic Warren Ellis is apparently writing a Direct-to-DVD film adaptation of the Castlevania videogame series.