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TV psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, author of the government’s recently announced Byron Report which will examine the availability of violent video games, is set to speak at the upcoming ELSPA Forum as part of the London Games Festival. Byron will discuss why the government called for the review, and the …
Read More »PlayStation Eye lands next-month
PlayStation Eye, the next-gen PS3 version of PS2’s successful EyeToy peripheral, will be released as a standalone unit in Europe on November 7th, SCEE has confirmed. Costing 24.99, the kit will come with free software package EyeCreate, which lets you record videos, audio and take pictures, all of which can …
Read More »PlayStation Eye lands next-month
PlayStation Eye, the next-gen PS3 version of PS2’s successful EyeToy peripheral, will be released as a standalone unit in Europe on November 7th, SCEE has confirmed. Costing 24.99, the kit will come with free software package EyeCreate, which lets you record videos, audio and take pictures, all of which can …
Read More »MySpace joins MCVs online recruitment drive
Web giant MySpace is the latest big-time technology recruiter to get behind MCV’s recently launched recruitment service . Having only officially launched last week, MCV’s Jobs section now boasts over 100 real games industry jobs in sectors including animation, artists, audio, design, journalism, management, marketing, producers, PR, QA, retail and …
Read More »MySpace joins MCVs online recruitment drive
Web giant MySpace is the latest big-time technology recruiter to get behind MCV’s recently launched recruitment service . Having only officially launched last week, MCV’s Jobs section now boasts over 100 real games industry jobs in sectors including animation, artists, audio, design, journalism, management, marketing, producers, PR, QA, retail and …
Read More »Trade-in Places
GAME GUIDE"S VIEWChris Ratcliff – Editor, The Game Guide "Depending on who you are or what you do in the video games industry, it is either theft or an essential business practice; morally wrong or an operational necessity. Since 1993 I have either been vilified or praised for editing and …
Read More »Trade-in Places
GAME GUIDE"S VIEWChris Ratcliff – Editor, The Game Guide "Depending on who you are or what you do in the video games industry, it is either theft or an essential business practice; morally wrong or an operational necessity. Since 1993 I have either been vilified or praised for editing and …
Read More »Stringer: PlayStation network to spread beyond consoles
With the likes of PS3 Home and video-on-demand already in the works for Sony’s PlayStation Network, chief executive Howard Stringer says that PlayStation consoles are just the start of Sony’s vision for its platform. We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the …
Read More »Stringer: PlayStation network to spread beyond consoles
With the likes of PS3 Home and video-on-demand already in the works for Sony’s PlayStation Network, chief executive Howard Stringer says that PlayStation consoles are just the start of Sony’s vision for its platform. We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the …
Read More »Halo 3 blamed for Box Office slump
CVG reports that film executives have blamed the late September release of Halo 3 for the massive 27 per cent drop in takings at the Box Office for the weekend of October 5th. Whilst Microsoft is relishing Halo 3’s $300 million plus sales to date, movies such as Ben Stiller’s …
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