In this week's Technology section of the paper, I celebrate the flourishing public-access game development engine scene, user-friendly templates, languages and tech that allows anyone to put their game design ideas into practice with a few clicks. I discovered the trend last week when in Chicago, he...

I have been remiss in posting up the many events readers have sent in to the gamesblog (gamesblog +at+ gmail +dot+ com). To wit, some of these events are already gone! Still, there are plenty that are forthcoming. Here's a haul for you, all available on our gcal feed. New York Comic Con (New York, 6...

Christ Kempt and Alex Lee met at Fine Art college. There, they dreamed of a world where advertising was interactive. Thus, Kempt was born. Their latest advergame is TinyTrials, a browser-based series of minigames similar in pace and lunacy to Nintendo's phenomenal Wario Ware. I invited them into the...

Maybe it's because it's tax time, or coming up to the end of the financial year, but several high-level government bodies are weighing in on virtual worlds. Specifically, the bodies are interested in the financial and security implications of these multi-user, networked spaces. The first report come...

Enough of the awards for the US games makers Harmonix. I like them, I like their games, but come on; they're not innovative, they're not new. Their phenomenally successful Guitar Hero and their blinding Rock Band are popular western adaptations of games which originated within a Japanese arcade genr...

If the buzz is to be believed, the games industry is well-placed to ride out the economic recession. But scratch the surface of the spin, and it's apparent that, with layoffs continuing in offices of some of the major players like EA, Disney, NCSoft and EIDOS, and losses recorded by Sony, Nintendo a...

We mentioned Global Game Jam, an international make-a-game-in-two-gays event, a couple of weeks ago, and now we can report that it was a massive success. Congrats to the attendees, who between them created 300+ games! People from around the world - from Colombia to South Africa to the USA to jolly o...

Let's continue the week with a delicious haul. Here are a few of our favourites form the past month: • Routes routesgame.com • The MMO Crash of 2008 hellforge.gameriot.com • US: Sony brings MTV to PSN mcvuk.com • Emogame emogame.com • Air Traffic Chaos Review eurogamer.net • Companies at...

If you've played Little Big Planet, you'll be familiar with Daniel Pemberton's work. The audio composer, who's created music content for games, TV and movies, is the clever music man behind the LBP theme and its whistles and organ sounds, among other melodic manipulations. Daniel's been in touch wit...

Tonight the Spaceship! team bring their baby to the debutante ball. We've been working long hours finalising the details, buffing the hull and cleaning the Crew's Loo. Now all we can do is see release her to the world. Congratulations to everyone who joined in the fun!...