Developer Atomic is trying to make a realistic war game called Six Days in Fallujah that features real solders on both sides of the battle. But former publisher Konami has cut and run at the first sign of trouble.

The writer who brought us Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li is now working on, gasp, the upcoming Shadow of the Colossus movie. Gamers everywhere: start cowering in fear now.

Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime says the used game market hurts consumers. But all it really hurts is Nintendo’s huge profits. Consumers like their used games just fine, especially in this economy.

The industry is up in arms over a UK government ad depicting a slothful kid playing computer games, and apparently risking death. Silly yes, but Chella says at least it was effective.

A new survey from Microsoft shows that kids actually want their parents to be more involved in gaming choices, though a lot of parents are still clueless.