A new study in this month’s Pediatrics journal “confirms” a link between violent videogames and aggressive behavior. Various researchers from Iowa State University in Ames, the National Institute on Media and the Family in Minneapolis, and Ochanomizu University, Keio University, the University of Tsukuba, and Takasaki City University of Economics in Japan, observed hundreds of students from nine to fifteen …

This just makes me so happy, After a slow couple of news days it seems that we have a little bit of excitement coming back into the industry. Ray Maguire, from the black team, has been chatting to Videogamer.com about how he feels the PS3 now has a large enough install base for third party developers to start using it …

This is sad. A reality TV show is coming to Spike in the US and is going to be "based" on Gear of War 2. The show will have two teams going through hell and performing acts from the game as well as learning to work together as team. If you ask me, this is nothing more than a seriously lame cash-in on the franchises success as well as nothing more than a promotional tool to sell the game, as it is airing the day before Gears of War 2's release. It doesn't really look like its going to be anything like the game and I really think that Epic has sold out on this one.

There is currently a popular story doing the rounds about how Epic Games think that Microsoft is winning the online battle due to their added content. In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Epic's Mike Capps says that it's due to Microsoft's policy of adding of constantly "adding cool stuff". That's all good and well but it's the next part of the interview that got my interest. More after the jump. He goes on to say the that: "But I love the fact that you boot through the dashboard now - I understand how some gamers might not like it so much, but that's how you join into the Xbox Live experience - your dashboard comes up, you get to see what's new, hey, there's some free stuff you didn't know about - instead of just booting into your game and missing the community." It never ceases to amaze me how people can so easily soften words to try and make something hugely profitable look like it is something that has been done as a favour to us, the gamers. He speaks about missing the community and seeing that there is free stuff available, when in truth, it's actually just all about pushing as much money-making DLC down our throats as possible. This reminds me of the famous quote, "out of sight, out of mind".

A report from PS3 Attitude has come in saying that the ability to import your own images into LittleBigPlanet will be patched in really soon. How soon? It looks as if it will be available by Christmas. The function was supposed to originally be in the game at launch, but was left out due to time constraints with the plan to patch it in later. It seems that a couple of of clever people have already made a plan around the lack of the function by using their Playstation Eye but they obviously wouldn't be able to such a great quality image into the level. Lookout for more news on the patch as we draw closer to December.

Killzone 2 is looking absolutely stunning to the point that I think it may very well blow Resistance 2 right out of the water when it releases. Gameplay videos have shown some incredibly smooth, detailed graphics and the gameplay looks intense and fun. All of you Killzone fans that eagerly awaiting the games release will be happy to know there is at least something small to get you even more excited. Fair enough, it's only the only the cover art, but it does look good. My only experience with the Killzone franchise was the PSP game and while I thought the game played incredibly well on the handheld, I was really impressed with the entire visual feel and art direction of the series. The graphic blokes really seem to know their stuff. Check out the high-res box-art after the jump. Pretty sweet, eh? Killzone 2 arrives on shelves early next year.

Maybe it’s a bit early to already be looking into the next year but I came across a posting on Videogamer.com this morning that has Microsoft talking about their awesome line up for next year, or actually not talking about. Just letting us know that it will be great. So while 2008 has once again been one of the best …

Often if a gaming magazine or website is given an advanced copy of a game they are asked to sign a NDA (non-disclosure agreement), these NDA’s will then have expiry dates on them and after that time you will be able to talk about what you saw. Well obviously today is the date that Gears of War 2 reviews are …