Self-styled "game director and alleged psychopath" David Jaffe has kicked off Twisted Metal's marketing campaign in typical style, inviting players to fire an automatic weapon from the comfort of their desks. "I'm here to tell you about the epic return of gaming's most sick, depraved franchise," he says. "It's Twisted Fucking Metal on PlayStation 3, and it's back, bitch." More >
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It's a real problem that gamers don't understand how much work goes into making a quality game, plus Blizzard's political correctness gone soft.
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Outcry over Where's My Water's 69p level bundle and Half-Life 3 highlight the problems of players loving games a little too much, says Alex Wiltshire.
19Dawn Paine has worked for Nintendo for ten years now and has overseen the launches of Nintendo platforms including Wii, DS and 3DS, and a number of high-profile games. She will join Universal Pictures as VP of marketing. More >
The UK videogame industry's average annual salary is £33,123, research has found. MCV's annual survey, based this year on 975 respondents - 579 of whom were based in the UK - from development, publishing, retail, services, PR and media, found the median salary rose eight per cent from last year's £30,667. More >
Pete Collier on what it took to finish the game: community support to dealing with Apple.
A new service has launched which helps indie developers keep track of reviews on over 600 websites. As well as a Metacritic-style average score, Promoter automatically tracks and archives press reviews of a developer's game, sending an email notification when a new one is published. A timeline displays reviews, mentions and special events - such as release date announcements or holiday sales - to enable developers to gauge the success of promotions. More >
Tadhg Kelly gets into the Christmas spirit as he considers the importance of giving players more than they expect.
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Are prerendered CG trailers like Dead Island's false prophets or free entertainment?
4Players of The Old Republic, which launched yesterday, are being forced to queue for hours at a time before getting to play BioWare's Star Wars MMOG. In a lengthy post on the game's official forums, senior online community manager Stephen Reid warns that the situation will continue "for the foreseeable future," and asks for users' patience. More >
3Capcom has insisted that "Mega Man is a key brand for Capcom and will remain so" despite the publisher having cancelled two games starring its mascot in 2011. Speaking to Game Informer, senior VP of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson said that Mega Man was still very much in Capcom's thoughts despite the publisher having halted development of Mega Man Legends 3 for 3DS and downloadable title Mega Man Universe. More >
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Where is the fast-expanding F2P model going and what does it take to succeed in this market?
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When does selling a shoddy title cross the line from annoying to unethical?
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Why does everything Peter Molyneux says get column inches? Plus the man who traded an engagement ring for MJOLNIR armour.
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People buy experiences, not technology, says Thom Dinsdale, something from which 3DS and Kinect's marketing could still learn a lot.
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The article we published in our November 2001 issue, as Xbox hit US stores and Microsoft held its X01 press junket.
7Pete Hines, Bethesda's VP of PR and marketing, has asked for players to give the publisher time as it works on patching out problems with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Yesterday we reported that Bethesda had acknowledged texture scaling issues on the Xbox 360 version of the game. Since then, PS3 players have reported texture streaming problems and stuttering framerates, while those with the PC version are complaining of freezes of several seconds in length in outdoors sections. More >
9Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors he feels "greatly accountable" for the company's dismal performance this year which has left it facing its first-ever annual loss in the videogame business, and outlined a programme of change in a bid to reverse the company's decline from the incredible profitability of the Wii and DS era. Speaking to investors following the announcement of Nintendo's financial results earlier this week, Iwata outlined several major changes on which rest the prospects of a reversal in fortunes - and, perhaps, of him hanging onto his job. More >
9Mike Morhaime, president of World Of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment, has apologised for homophobic comments made in a video shown on the closing night of last weekend's Blizzcon festival. The comments came from Cannibal Corpse frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, who was performing vocals for Blizzard's staff band Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain. While the video was censored, Fisher was clearly heard using homophobic slurs against members of the Alliance faction. More >
Blizzard is facing uproar over homophobic comments made towards members of World Of Warcraft's Alliance faction at last weekend's Blizzcon in Las Vegas. The comments come from a video interview with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, lead singer for US death metal band Cannibal Corpse, who closed out this year's event. Though Fisher's language was bleeped out, an uncensored version of the interview, in which he directs homophobic insults towards Alliance players, is available at GayGamer. More >