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Few video games reach trending topic status on Twitter. It's the sort of thing normally accorded to disasters, celebrities, and global news. NBA 2K11 has been a trending topic every day since Monday, for 57 hours straight at one point. More »
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Fall is usually the busy season for video games, when most games — and many of the year's biggest — are released for each gaming console. But the fall of 2010 may leave American PSP fans feeling like they're getting the short shrift. More »
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Half of this seems about as hamfistedly hip as a Mentos ad, but a team of design students at a Milan university identified five top global trends - guerrilla gardening, couch-surfing, carpooling - and used Mario to illustrate them. More »
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Dad, a newspaper publisher, always told me, "the news is what people are talking about." Video games can be that, too, as we've seen lately with mobile or flash games based on much-discussed current events. More »
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Jane Pinckard of game girl advance has come up with four future trends of entertainment, and they all apply to gaming — while her ideas aren't necessarily 'new,' she does really boil down some of the tensions and innovations facing the industry right now. She points to four trends — tension between immersion and transparency, asynchronous instant communication, credible advertising with integrity, and tools as the content. This last issue is one that's come up a lot, and I really like her take on it — the move from passive consumer to active user: More »
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Interesting read over on 1up — the history of packaging trends in PC gaming. No, really. Remember the code wheels (I had one in Legacy of the Ancients and the Legend of Blacksilver, for C64). Remember Marathon's absurd box? Remember the boatload of instruction manuals for something like Pirates! More »
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Katie Salen, the Executive Director of the Gamelab Institute of Play and an Associate Professor of Design and Technology at Parson's School of Design, was interviewed by FreedomLab concerning the trends in games. Salen talks about how the change in consciousness of people through time have affected how games are developed and played, from casual games, to Second Life, to even geocaching. From a clip of the interview (which you can watch here), Salen talks about what could possibly be a subconcious trend going on in gamers' minds as we speak: More »
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Sure, the Kotaku crowd knows that Sony dropped a $500-$600 bomb on us at E3 2006. And we're all kind of coming to terms with it. I've got the cash earmarked for a PS3 and I'm ready to spend. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=214505&view=rss&microfeed=true Over at Game Girl Advance they've published a year-end write-up of their own. There are no "game of the year" choices here. Instead, they choose to look at the biggest trends of '05. Their top five? "Sex and Games" (ooh, Hot Coffee, it burns), "Wireless Online Gaming", "There's Room for Both of Us" (the DS and PSP can coexist), "Console Indie Development" and Gamers Fight Back Against Critics. More »
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