If Video Game Characters Used Twitter

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find some of your fave characters from games tweeting about what their up to in the virtual world. Well thanks to the folks over at College Humour it appears they have found them.

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Live Streaming From GAMES

Thanks to XFire the free instant messenger for gamers, you can actually watch the killing sprees and football matches that your mates are doing. A few users have had issues with lagging on their games but I’m guessing that by experimenting with various video qualities this could be eased slightly.
It’s still in BETA so issues [...]

Revolutionary New Games-On-Demand Service Launches On Cable TV Network In Israel

Playcast to become the world’s first, live service to allow Pay-TV viewers to play console-quality video games through standard set-top-boxes.
Playcast Media System and Hot, the Israeli cable network, today announced a large scale pilot launch of its groundbreaking new Playcast service, which allows TV viewers to play high-end video games, on demand, on their existing [...]

Games Industry meets with Chancellor of the Exchequer

Philip Oliver, CEO of Blitz Games Studios & TIGA Board Member today met with the Chancellor, Alistair Darling to present TIGA’s agenda for improving skills and training for the Video Games Industry.
The Chancellor requested to meet with Oliver to hear views on skills provision and training, particularly on how businesses can appropriately skill their workforce [...]

Next generation or the last?

After I heard the news about the new OnLive games service, I began thinking about what we can expect from the next round of consoles, if there is going to be any at all.