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...