Computer games and game addiction are often the subject of criticism, focusing largely on

"Game designer" is a great, and very vague, term. Some guys are writers (the story development behind Halo, for example, was fantastic) and I am guessing that video game plots are not the only thing they have ever written. They probably wrote stories and poems and got a degree in English or somethin

An in-house development team that works for a console hardware manufacturer is also known as a first-party developer. A company that is closely tied to a console manufacturer (or occasionally a publisher) is known as a second-party developer. Rather confusingly the publishers themselves are sometimes referred to as third-party developers in the context of their relationships with the console manufacturers