intenscia writes “The 2007 Mod of the Year Awards players choice winners have been announced, capping off a great year in gaming. This year titles which were influenced by the War in Iraq fared well, with Half-Life 2, Battlefield 2 and the GPL’d ID Tech 3 engine polling strongly in the indie games and released mods categories. Crysis mods, though still in the early stages of development, did well in the best upcoming category as indie developers attention shifts to some of the next-gen engines.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

UPDATE 1-Winnebago cuts jobs as RV sales stall
Reuters - in showroom traffic over the past 12 months as turmoil in the U.S. housing market — whose ups and downs are highly correlated with rv sales — have weighed on consumer confidence. In November, the most recent month for which there is data, motorhome Super Freeport not […]

Introversion On Staying An Independent Games Studio
Dr. Eggman writes “bit-tech.net has up an interview with Introversion Games, creators of Uplink, Darwinia, and Defcon, on the hard work it takes to make games independently. They discuss the challenges and rewards, ranging from developing new technologies for their upcoming game, Subversion, to defining their own style in Darwinia — and nearly bankrupting themselves in the process. ‘When we first set out to write video games we knew the damage that publishers could do both to games themselves, and the people writing them, and we were not willing to let that happen to us. In order to ensure our creative freedom, we had to be independent from publishers and license holders, and that independence has become a guiding mantra for us.’”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Devil May Cry 4 on Marketplace
This free Marketplace demo introduces you to the gothic-inspired supernatural world of Devil May Cry 4, new protagonist Nero and the awesome power of his Devil Bringer.

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