News analysis and background

Codemasters Chief Operating Officer Tony Williams leaves unexpectedly after four years. There is no smoke without fire so it will be interesting when I find out what happened here. There […]

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Massacre in Winnenden, Germany as school student runs amok with gun. A huge tragedy. Last time this happened in Germany, at Erfurt, it resulted in repressive anti gaming laws. No […]

Video games kill children

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These are lasy, simplistic shock adverts that tell a lie. The Gate agency and the three charities involved should be ashamed of themselves. All they are doing is exposing their uneducated prejudices. Everyone reading this knows just how much good video games do for children. And anyone who doesn’t should read some of the articles here on the subject.

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“New research conducted by games development industry body TIGA shows that the UK games development sector is a highly skilled and successful industry that exports games all over the world. […]

How about this for bad losers? Winners of games on Xbox Live are now having their internet connection hacked by the people they beat. DoS attacks are now a feature […]

Microsoft Jasper motherboard Xbox 360s are now in the shops. These have both a 65nm GPU and a 65nm CPU so they run less warm than the older motherboards. You […]

The EU parliament like video games

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Jeremy Clarkson called Gordon Brown a “one-eyed Scottish idiot” and the whole world cheered. Clarkson was probably referring to Brown’s gross mismanagement of the British economy whilst he was Chancellor […]