In a period where the Australian government appears to be going on a rampage censoring games left, right and centre, it’s worth taking stock of the type of thing they do deem appropriate for consumption, namely the ways horror hero Jason Voorhees has killed his many victims over the years in all 12 of the [...]

Your videogame developer association is at a crossroads. The senior board staff are leaving left, right and centre and member apathy is at an all-time high. You’re looking for something, anything, to drum up passion once more in 13,000+ strong community where the vast majority of members are signed up automatically by employers often without [...]

On a recent road trip down to NYC for the long weekend, MJ and I were customarily delayed a little extra at the border control due to my non-Canadian status. The conversation with the patrol officer went a little like this: Officer: What is your status in Canada? Me: I’m on a work permit. Officer: [...]

This is awesome, and so close to home it hurts. I often say that the lowest and most indefensible point of working in games is that many of them consist of nothing more that shooting people in the face. [via lightspeedchick]

In the spirit of UK:Resistance, “because you can’t not use pictures like this when they come along”. Seen on mental health blog The Trouble With Spikol via Marie-Jo.

I don’t usually care to think about anti-videogame attorney Jack (John Bruce) Thompson lest it give him credence or, worse yet, a notion that his voice is relevant in the overarching debate over videogame censorship. But this time he’s really outdone himself with such a noteworthy argument that it’s worth sharing. After the recent Show [...]

I just read that THQ picked up the award for Best Animated Videogame of 2007 at the 35th Annie Awards. That’s very impressive in a year that also brought us Assassin’s Creed and Team Fortress 2. The complete list of nominees were: Avatar: The Last Airbender “The Burning Earth” – THQ, Inc. Bee Movie Game [...]

A lot has been said over the past few weeks concerning the sexual content of Mass Effect, most notably the controversially unresearched Fox TV spot below. As a former member of the dev team responsible, (who directed a portion of the motion-capture actors involved – though full cutscenes weren’t my gig), I can perhaps speak [...]

You know you’ve hit the big time when your cutscene gets a Penny Arcade strip all of its own, so congratulations to Brad on making headlines with his bi alien sex scene – reportedly the lone element that pushed the game into the Mature ratings bracket in North America. I seem to recall him spending [...]

This embarassingly naive statement by unfortunately non-ficticious graduate of Generic Game Design Course appears in Game Developer magazine on a regular basis. In his defence, the offending graduate offers this forum post on Garage Games. “Yea (sic) that quote was def NOT from me…. I wasnt even alive when pong was released! So i do [...]

Almost too close to the bone, this pretty much sums up the alsoran’s parents’ idea of how their son spends most of his days – because videogames are made by simply playing them. It could be a not-so-elaborate hoax, were it not for the actual existence of the website, let alone the course itself. At [...]