I've had a pet project I've been working on for years, three of them if my memory is right. It started as a simple idea: You can judge a lot from a person's desk. I bet you could judge just as much from their home entertainment system. So I decided it would be fun to try and track down some pictures from the work desks and home gaming set-ups of the people who work in and cover the video game industry. Simple right? Not so much.

Turns out that many of the people are either too busy or too private to want to participate in such a project. To make matters worse, there's always fear that something sitting on someone's desk, that ends up in a photo, could actually be news worthy. Like a secret project or the next big thing. But I didn't give up and about once a year I'd harass a bunch of game developers for photos. Finally, this year, the harassment paid off.

What started as a trickle of photos turned quickly into the collection of galleries you'll find on the jump: More than 40 different photo galleries from 17 studios, seven publications, two industry movers and shakers and a couple of fun surprises.

You'll get to see the desk of such greats as Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux and Tetsuya Mizuguchi along with plenty of others. Remember you can comment both on the next page and on each individual photo if you click on them.

If I find there is interest, I will try to periodically update this gallery of galleries with more developers, journalists and industry movers and shakers. Have fun.

DEVELOPERS
2K Games

ASTRO Gaming

Buzz Monkey Software

Capcom

Eat, Sleep, Play

Electronic Arts

Firaxis Games

Flying Lab Software

Gearbox Software

Harmonix Music

Incognito Entertainment

Insomniac Games

Kojima Productions

Lionhead Studios

NanaOn-Sha

Naughty Dog

NCSoft

NetDevil

Neversoft Entertainment

Ninja Theory

Pandemic Studios

Petroglyph Games

THQ

Q Entertainment

JOURNALISTS

Blue's News

BoingBoing

EGM

The Escapist

GameLife

Joystiq

Kotaku

MTV

Slashdot Games

VE3D

VH1

INDUSTRY FOLK

MISCELLANIES
I AM 8-BIT

Penny Arcade

Whorecraft

Video Games Live

Which writer’s father bought a Playstation 3 specifically to play Grand Theft Auto 4?

Andrew Rosenblum, the 20-year-old creator and host of GameLife, was expected to be freed on $50,000 bail today after allegedly threatening to recreate the spree killing of Virginia Tech at his ex-girlfriend's school.

Rosenblum, who pleaded not guilty to three counts of intent to do bodily harm, must remain at home and wear a monitoring device until his trial. The judge sitting on the hearing also refused to Rosenblum attend temple saying, "I have some serious concerns about that."

Melissa, a co-host on the show, told Kotaku yesterday called the alleged threats a "cry for attention that came from a very dark and lonely place inside Andrew," adding that anyone who knows Rosenblum knows he would never do anything violent.

Police say that Rosenblum sent threatening e-mails to an ex-girlfreind says he would create the bloodshed of Virginia Tech at her school.

"(I)'m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It's gonna be VT all over again," Rosenblum is alleged to have written in an e-mail to his ex-girlfriend.

"Seriously I'm just that demented," Rosenblum wrote in a police report obtained by the (Boston) Herald Tuesday.

Rosenblum is the founder of GameLife which was streamed on MTV's broadband video channel, Overdrive. MTV told VH1's Gamebreak yesterday that the show is no longer on their service.

Rosenblum's attorney said Rosenblum's alleged threats came after his grandmother's death and the break-up with the alleged victim.

"Sometimes kids don't know the power of words," Carney told the Herald today. ... "He used inappropriate language to show his pain," said Carney. "He's an immature young man upset over the break up and death of a grandmother."

It's obvious that Rosenblum is a confused young man, and while I understand he may have been upset when he allegedly said what he said, if it's true, the fear his alleged comments sparked should lead to some sort of punishment. Brian Crecente

'VT' Web threat suspect faces $50,000 bail [Boston Herald]

Wow, this is pretty shocking.

Andrew Rosenblum, the founder and co-host of GameLife, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to go on a Virginia Tech-like shooting spree at a Boston-area college.

Rosenblum, who was taking classes at the Boston University, instant messaged his ex-girlfriend shortly after 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech, saying he was going to kill her, according to the Boston Herald.

"(I)'m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It's gonna be VT all over again," 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech. "Seriously I'm just that demented," Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: "killing people can change people's lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too."

Rosenblum was picked up by police at his parents house Tuesday and taken to a local hospital for observation. Police were expecting to arrest him today for threatening to do bodily harm.

The 19-year-old girl told police she went on three dates with Rosenblum and then broke up with him. She said he then started to harass her.

Police called the instant message threats "very serious" and said the case remained under investigation.

Last year Rosenblum's GameLife show was picked up by MTV's broadband video channel Overdrive. None of the hosts for the show returned emails seeking comments Wednesday afternoon. Brian Crecente

Update: I just heard back from Melissa, one of the show's hosts:

I only recently learned of this. Anyone who knows Andrew knows he would never do anything violent. This was clearly a cry for attention that came from a very dark and lonely place inside of Andrew. It seems the media in general is already treating this as some hot topic when, in reality, it is a small story about a sad and confused guy who needs to get some help. He is now getting that help.

Cops pick up BU student over 'VT' Web threat [Boston Herald]

Chris Kohler over at Game|Life has translated some of the details from the Japanese announcement of the Elite weeding out new details on what Xbox 360 owners looking to upgrade can expect when they go bigger. Things to note include that 20GB disks will be wiped clean after the data transfer process and that data cannot be moved from the 120GB drive to the 20GB drive. So, no backing things up.

More screwjob worthy than that?

You cannot put the data from two or more 20 GB hard disks onto one 120 GB hard disk. If you attempt to move multiple drives, only the last one you move will be stored.

As Kohler wisely points out, that flies in the face of a suggestion from Xbox Group Product Marketing Manager Aaron Greenberg, who suggested that folks buy not only a memory unit, but a back up hard drive to store their extra Video Marketplace content. Michael McWhertor

Microsoft: Data From Two Xbox 360 HDDs Can't Be Combined On 120 GB Drive [Game|Life]

GameLife's Chris Kohler recently got a chance to play some Splinter Cell: Double Agent on the Wii, or as he put it: Through sheer coincidence, I managed to somehow be the first journalist to get hands-on with Ubisoft's Wii version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.

First PLAY! comments aside, Kohler says the game looks a tad better than the Playstation 2 version... which I think means worse or the same as the GameCube, I'm not 100 percent up on my graphics conversions.

Unfortunately, the gameplay seems not to make up for the graphics.

The rest of Fisher's many, many commands are mapped to buttons all over the Wii remote — the two trigger buttons on top of the left-hand nunchuk, the four different directions of the D-pad on top of the remote. I found myself totally confused as to what did what — it's obvious that Sam's moves were designed with a PS2 controller in mind, then mapped after the fact to the totally different Wii setup.

Kohler says it took him 30 minutes to get through the introductory level of the game on the Wii, but when he went home and played the same level on the PS2, he managed it in minutes.

This is the bad side of Wii development, company's just trying to port a game and then frankenstein in some motion controls. Let's hope it doesn't happen again. Brian Crecente

Splinter Cell: Double Agent First Ever Hands On [GameLife]

Los Angeles is disgusting. From the game store/check cashing combo, to Melissa's blas pep, to Batman's creepy laugh, to the Hulk hustling for a tip ( and being denied), this whole segment gives me the jibblies.

Not the jubblies.

It's like watching your fat friend run.

Well said, Batman. Eliza Gauger

[thanks Hal]

Is there any consensus yet whether or not GameLifeShow is a brilliant parody of the typical poise of our hobby's geekiest, or if the show is, in fact, hosted by individuals with Down Syndrome? Note to the National Down Syndrome Congress, a group that emails me every time I use the term: I am not using 'Down Syndrome' as a pejorative. If the GameLifeShow people do, in fact, have Down Syndrome, I think it is a striking testament to the noble spirit of a proud, completely un-mentally-handicapped people! Speaking for gamers everywhere, I think it is safe to say that, rising above society's sneering classification, the gamer love that dwells within Andrew and Dave's beautiful spirits profoundly touches us all.

As a point in favor of my opening sentence's latter hypothesis, Dave reviews Scooby Doo Unmasked, proclaiming that he's the only one with the balls to do so and that "people who trash this game haven't played it." Florian Eckhardt

From its humble beginnings under a circus tent, the GameLife dog and pony show has grown to mammoth proportions. In an age when online game programs are the new webcomic, GameLife is Penny Arcade. Or something like that.

Up and coming ScrewAttack.com elbowed its way into the GameLife line-up, landing a spot to do reviews. (Because that show sure doesn't do enough of them.) At the last minute, GameLife freaked and hid under the bed like we do when the Jehovah's Witnesses come a-knocking. Here is that rejected clip—not good enough for GameLife, but certainly for YouTube. And, uh, Kotaku. Heh. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [ScrewAttack]

They're back, "kicking ass, taking names, and playing games." It's GameLife Episode Five!

Has a trip to E3 among the bright lights and easy women of Los Angeles softened the resolve of our game-reviewing everymen? As the extended middle fingers of the game reviewers visually indicate: The GameLife Show is still punk as fuck. Joel Johnson

I just watched GameLife's 1Up sponsored E3 video bonanza. Initially I thought that they lost had lost their touch, had become a victim of their fleeting success. But after watching the spastic, jerky ham-handed reporting of the group I'm happy to report that they are still just as charming... and sucky.

I like the part where the guy reviewing the game gets distracted by the game while talking about it. Oh wait, that was all of it. The look on the faces of the people they are interviewing is also some classic, grade-A shit. Oh Gamelife, we love you, necrophilia and all. —Brian Crecente

Ugh. I hesitated posting this, as this is the sort of non-news that really gets under my skin, but since Kotaku was name-checked in this video, I felt obligated. Profiling the token girl from Gamelife, the show built on a foundation of pointing and laughing, the video goes on to discuss how "rumors and speculation about her allegedly sordid past ... threaten to topple her from her Gamelife throne". Apparently, posting gory pictures of internet celebrities could possibly "mar the face of the entire gaming industry". Right.

One thing we should clear up is that the alway excellent UK:R (from whom we steal their news just about everyday) brought this to our attention. So if anyone is responsible for making girls cry, it's them. —Michael McWhertor

(thanks for the heads up, DaveKap!)

With GameLife on the brink of superstardom, it's time for that familiar song and dance: digging up skeletons. The always colorful UK Resistance sniffed around and turned up some interesting images of the show's geek princess Melissa (she did the Cooking Mama review). These pics are NSFW, but not for the reason you'd think. Seems that Melissa is into playing dead and then having her photo taken. How kinky. That's all that has been turned up so far, but I'm willing to bet dollars for donuts that Alex, the show's co-host, has overdue library books. Cannot wait for that story to break. —Brian Ashcraft

More Here [UKR]

What a swell bunch. Go watch their show.