During this year’s 2009 Consumer Electronics Show held January 8, 2009, to January 11, 2009, Psyko Audio Labs Inc. was announced winner of the Best of Innovations Design and Engineering award for the headphone category.

Pysko Audio Labs new innovative headset, the Pskyo 5.1 Headphones, competed against 13 other companies to include Audiovox and Plantronics for the title which was awarded January 11, 2009, on the CNET Live Stage at the Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA).

I had a chance to speak with James Hildebrandt, Head Psyko at Psyko Audio Labs Inc., and asked whether or not receiving the award sets a new standard for Psyko’s future products…

The Writers Guild of America’s nominations for the 2009 awards are out, and it turns out there’s a dark horse among the competition for Best Writing in a Videogame. Alongside games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Fallout 3, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Tomb Raider: Underworld is a little, familiar independent game called Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!. Yup, independent developer Mousechief has just received another honor for their fantastic adventure game.

Now we’ll all just have to wait and see if, on February 7, 2009, Mousechief manages to win…

During Comic Con 2008, many games and comics were featured. And who wouldn’t want to attend a special preview of today’s most talented directors and animators create independent film masterpieces. The Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival consisted of movies that fell into seven categories: action/adventure, animation, comics-oriented, documentary, humor/parody, horror and science fiction/fantasy. On July 27, 2008, the top films in each category were announced and awarded.

This year’s Comic-Con International: Independent Film Festival are…

There seems to be a bit of confusion when it comes to guessing the ratio between male and female gamers. But with more and more women appearing in the gaming industry as well as the gaming scene its no wonder that Sony Online Entertainment, LLC hadn’t come out with this scholarship years ago.

SOE will be offering the G.I.R.L. Scholarships beginning April 1, 2008. Women who are currently attending one of The Art Institutes campuses are eligible to qualify. Female students interested in receiving the scholarship must submit an in-game design, concept art and two essays by…

The 2008 Engineering & Technology Emmys were award this past Monday (January 7, 2008) at CES in Las Vegas, NV.

The big – and second consecutive year – winner was Nintendo with several nods for the Nintendo DS and a wink to the Wii. Linden Labs also won a pair for Second Life.

Other notable winners include the Atari Lynx for the screen development (so nice to see that system finally get some respect), Mattell’s Football handheld game (which helped maintain my sanity during many long bus rides in high school), and a couple big-name games including World of Warcraft, Havok and Quake.

As you may recall last year’s awards had a bit of extra excitement generated by Sony, though this year Sony doesn’t have an award to brag about.

Award presenters included Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and Peter Price, president and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Chairman of the Gaming Committee Seth Haberman and Variety’s Chief Marketing Officer Madelyn Hammond. Peter Price, President and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. told press:

“For the first time in our 59 year history, not all winners will be presented with an Emmy statuette at this year’s ceremony due to litigation with the Hollywood-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. We are in court aggressively fighting for the right to recognize the talents and achievements of these companies and individuals without whom our industry would not be the world leader it is today. Once victorious, we plan to present each winner from tonight’s event with their own Emmy.”

Click through for the complete list of winners for Engineering & Technology for Creation and Implementation of Video Games and Platforms…

Ken Kutaragi, creator of the SNES sound chip and the entire Playstation line of game systems, stands poised to be the latest recipient of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ (AIAS) Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be delivered at next year’s upcoming Design Innovate Communicate Entertain summit being held February 2008 in Las Vegas. more »