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UK video game tax relief hinges on passing this 'cultural test'
The UK government outlined a "cultural test" that video games developed in the region must meet for the studio to qualify for tax relief, as part of the industry overhaul begun earlier this year. A game must earn 16 points to receive the tax break, ...
Video Game 2.0 Bundle offers a pile of gaming culture books for $3
It's impossible to constantly play video games, but StoryBundle's Video Game Bundle 2.0 has a collection of ebooks on gaming culture to fill the void. Video Game Bundle 2.0 includes the following ebooks to read in your gaming downtime (at work, in s...
UK Interactive Entertainment CEO defends games as culture before EU tax investigation
Last week the European Commission announced it would kick off an "in-depth investigation" into proposed UK tax relief for video game developers, and UK Interactive Entertainment's Jo Twist wasn't too pleased by the news. This week the non-profit's C...
Preserving the culture of games
Curmudgeon Gamer reflects on the likely outcome of GameStop's buyout of the Rhino Games retail franchise: "cultural loss." Rhino will no doubt undergo some significant changes, which will probably include the divestment of its aging inventory. Presum...
E3 Culture: Geek Chic
There's a ton to say on the culture of E3, so this post will capture just one little component of it: the wacky T-shirts that just scream "I'm a geek, and proud of it." The Joystiq cultural anthropologist says: "The specimen spo...
Pepsi taps into today's culture with ... pinball?
So let's get this straight. Coca-cola, looking for inspiration for a high-profile ad, apes Grand Theft Auto, a best-selling series that has inspired countless knock-offs and holds incredible relevance in today's pop culture landscape. Pepsi, on the ...
Never Alone blends clever platforming with cultural insight
I like to think of Never Alone as a less depressing version of 2011's indie hit, Limbo. It features similar environment-based puzzle-platforming in an unforgiving world, but its buddy-system mechanics give an encouraging sense of optimism throughout...
Culture Brain working on three 3DS games
Culture Brain was -- well-known isn't the right term -- present from the NES through N64 eras as developer and publisher of games like Flying Dragon, Magic of Scheherazade and Baseball Simulator 1.000. After its US publishing branch closed, it slippe...
Compilation of World of Warcraft cultural references and easter eggs
Chris Pinthog has put together a list of World of Warcraft cultural references and easter eggs that have made the game such a joy to play. The alert player is constantly bumping into pop culture references that give the game a little bit ...
'Games and Culture' academic journal launched
Gaming, and the myriad disciplines which overlap with the concept of video games, are gaining ground in academic circles as a valid field of research and study. With MMOs used for social and anthropological experiments, film-making papers focusing on...
China to rate the "cultural implications" of online games
Last year it was estimated that China had 13.8 million people playing online games. These figures were reason for concern for the government, eager to control the information spread across the Internet. So the Video Games Committee of the Chinese A...
NYT presents South Korean gaming culture
The New York Times has a nice presentation on their website about gaming in South Korea narrated by the NYT's World of Warcraft-loving Seth Schiesel, who while reporting on what he saw manages to plug the upcoming Burning Crusade expansion by droppin...
5 steps to move past the game geek culture
We've referenced his blog before, but Danc's got some interesting ideas in the form of 5 steps (concerning "a method of getting to an answer") on how to get gaming out of its current funk and into "forming new markets and expanding the ...
Rockstar to release UMD documentary on lowrider culture
Time to put put a little funk in the trunk of your PSP. Rockstar's figgin to release a UMD-only movie entitled Sunday Driver (rated R for language—shocking!) about lowriders. "Our goal was to create a film with the same cutting edge, unco...
Activision and EA trade barbs over corporate cultures
Activision's Bobby Kotick and EA's Jeff Brown engaged in a little Battlefield of Duty: Corporate Warfare 2 match this week, lobbing sound bites back and forth at each other. Kotick was first, boasting in the latest issue of Edge (via Next-Gen.biz) t...
