Clearly off-topic. Looks like games are all the rage in fashion now. Earlier, we saw the oober-expensive Pac-Man limited edition scarf that scarily costs more than Sony's PSP Go. Now we have here Silent Hill's Pyramid Head, and guess what. It's all over the Fashion Runways.

Well he is about to become 30. In video gaming years, that's probably even past mid-life crisis already. Maybe that would explain why the Fummel & Kram brand is coming out with a very, very expensive accessory for Pac-Man, a scarf costing more than Sony's new PSP Go.

Namco Bandai's old-school arcade game collection for the PSN will finally arrive in North America six months after it hit Japan. A new Namco Bandai Home Destination will also launch alongside the collection.

Something has occurred in the teaser site for Kojima Productions' next project. Unfortunately, it's not the grand reveal yet.

Question: Was Exidy responsible for starting the violent video games trend with Death Race? Was it Namco with Pac-Man? Nintendo with Mario Bros? GTA? Maybe, but according to a pair of German researchers, it was all really the Pentagon's fault.

Pac-Man, everyone's favorite pill-popping ghostbuster, is turning 30 next year, and Namco Bandai is celebrating it by giving him a new game. The studio hopes the game will be Pac-Man's comeback, since he's on the verge of an early mid-life crisis.

Details after the link.

It looks like Namco Museum has finally slipped out of beta. Namco Bandai has announced that the downloadable game collection will be available on the Japanese PlayStation Store on Thursday. The game will be rocking a new name along with a new game.

While trawling through the Internets, we came across this a nice tip on using Namco Museum to get a few special items for PlayStation Home. Read on to find out how.

Here's an update on the current DICE Summit 08: Roger Hector, Vice President of Development at Namco Bandai, gave a short talk on how video games have made fictional characters into living icons. He even mentioned one of the greatest icons living until now. Details in the full article.

Moral Kombat has finally been screened, and straight after was the panel discussion between Jack Thompson and Lorne Lanning, co-founder of Oddworld Inhabitants. The debate was heated and filled with solid (and not-so-solid) arguments (complete with friendly jests and banter) from both sides.

No hair pulling, no punches thrown (except verbal ones, maybe). Read the full article for more details on the debate.