Links

News

http://www.onlinereporter.com/index.html Digital Media technology news.  This will help you to time the roll-out and to plan the production capacity needed to get your big idea out there exactly when the consumers are ready for it.

http://www.techreview.com/  MIT's own publication on the web.  A good source for tech developments from biological to technological including nanotech, software and internet.

http://www.gizmo.com.au/home/ Gadgets, consumer robots, the latest greatest and most desirable technologies you could ever hope to take out a second mortgage for.

http://www.consolevania.com/ Consolevania is a downloadable TV show. Irreverrant, sweary and in downright questionable taste. However, It has the most extraordinarily informed and intelligent reviews, a fantastic expose of the average person's thoughts when it comes to games in the form of street interviews and a host of trashy sketches.

http://www.happypuppy.com/ Game reviews, news and interviews from all the major sites collated into one place.

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/ Live news about the industry. Very fast, reliable and comprehensive.

Games Theory & Design

http://ludology.org/ Various musings on games.  Some of the articles by Gonzalo Frasca capture the mature gaming zeitgeist.

http://www.seriousgames.org/ Perhaps a step too far beyond gaming.  Games as political and educational tools, interesting nevertheless.

http://www.gamestudies.org/  Articles and critiques of gaming which are close to an academic enquiry into gaming.

http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html/ Tom Sloper is a games designer who has done many arcade conversions and some original titles. If you want to get into making games, Tom gives a very good run down of the industry.

http://www.costik.com/ Greg Costikyan is a seasoned designer and he has some very insiteful thoughts on the industry.

http://particleblog.blogspot.com/ Tadhg Kelly is currently a designer at Lionhead and captures many of the key issues of industry maturity and refocussed design that can be found in my own musings and rants

http://www.ludonauts.com/ A very active and incisive site. Many contributors and thought provoking articles. Their extensive links section should be enough to catapult you off to more greatness.

Teething Trauma: Retro Gaming

http://retrospec.sgn.net/ 8 bit games lovingly recreated on pc for a variety of operating systems.  Play your old classic favourites.

http://www.classicgaming.com/ Emulation information, news(!), reviews and reminiscing.

http://flashkof.free.fr/ Extremely high quality flash updates of Streetfighter and Castlevania, and some original titles too.
http://www.abandonline.com/ Abandonware is original copies of old software whose manufacturers are either bust or are not actively interested in the properties. You'll find many high quality old skool games here, but make sure you have an original boxed version in the attic before you download.

Bit of Fun: Lightweight Entertainment

http://www.eyezmaze.com/ Dave Morris first pointed me in the direction of these engaging flash games.

http://www.gamehippo.com/ Thousands of FREEWARE games. Some are of astounding quality, but many are terrible. Their rating system is a fairly accurate guide to quality.

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/ Anarchic, screamingly funny, recovering Sega Fanboys take the proverbial out of every aspect of gaming. I challenge you to read it and not fall about laughing.

Tsunami Appeal

http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html A set of worthwhile international charities that are helping to ease the suffering and to rebuild lives. Click and donate now.