It's not so much that it reflects well on Chris Brown that he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Kids' Choice awards, as it reflects awfully on Nickelodeon. The kids' TV network has handed the moral high ground to a man who doesn't deserve it which leaves them looking a bit shabby. Ye...

[Another notable interview from Gamasutra that's worth recounting here on GSW, Christian Nutt talked to Eidos' Alistair Cornish about working as a game designer in a different country to your core team - interesting stuff.] Alistair Cornish is a designer at Eidos London -- who works externally from ...

Awhile back, my buddy Al did a roundup of some of the most extreme pimping of BlackBerrys you can find - diamonds, gold, leather you name it. A cool novelty, no doubt, but what about Joe Everymanpimp? Is there not something for the common BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Mack Daddy in a cubic zirconia, pleat...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, artists are getting nervous about the PRS-Google dispute. Beth Orton has come out in favour of royalties: "Certain people can’t just make money from gigs, can they?" she told BBC 6music. She added: "You should get money from recording, because record deals are different now...

Apple have just launched a new iPod Shuffle - it's even tinier than the last, and will announce songs in a crisp, clear voice to make up for the lack of a screen. It might be wise to teach it to yell "over here", too, what it with it being so small. Oh, and the hard drive is four times the size of t...

Ross The Boss Friedman has been patiently explaining how the internet is collaborating with journalists to somehow stop him sending his son to college: Okay, so two weeks before my record was to be released on AFM in Germany, it was available online in Russia. By thieves. So anyone who wanted could ...

It's been a few years since there's been much evidence of the Britannia Music Club advertising in British magazines; now, it's American counterpart, the BMG music service, is closing. This is one of those 'buy one full price, get a squillion CDs free' deals that used the offer to lure you in, before...

[The movie tie-in Wanted: Weapons of Fate is unusual in a few key ways, and in this interview, originally printed on big sister site Gamasutra, producer Pete Wanat talks to Chris Remo about the hows and whys -- including, ahem, why most movie games suck.] Last year, Universal Pictures released Timur...

Much, much more scattering of reaction from around the world to Google's decision to pull music videos off YouTube. First up, Helienne Lindvall called for us to think about the songwriters: [A]s a songwriter myself, I can tell you that most songwriters haven't seen any income from YouTube at all, si...

Hey, you - yes, you. You're hearing all that stuff about how disappointing the sales of the U2 album is, right? Well, it's not true. Or, at least, that's what Paul McGuinness, manager, would have you believe: "The first week, we think it'll be very close to half a million, a little under," Paul McGu...