Who is this?
This picture is doing the rounds of the gaming industry. It depicts Ian McDiarmid playing the evil Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films. However it bears an uncanny resemblance […]
August 2007
Electronic Arts and Wikipedia: Oops!
Brilliant news, this. EA have been caught out editing their entry on Wikipedia and are making weasly excuses to explain themselves. Loads of other companies have also been caught out. […]
MTV games, $500 million. When will the BBC wake up?
In August MTV announced that: “we’re putting well over $500 million behind building our games business across all of the brands in our portfolio.” A sensible move. Ultimately games are […]
What is Microsoft?
Looking at how they have acted over their long history you have to say that Microsoft are a monopolistic intellectual property broker. Their products have never been particularly good, just good […]
Computer games are better than books
I remember several years ago Prince Charles said that children should stop playing computer games and read a good book instead. This was very widely reported in the Fox News/Daily […]
Increasing market share by putting prices UP
Once again this is a story I was involved in so I will try and be as modest as possible! In the mid 1980s the games platforms of choice were […]
What is Sony?
As a company Sony is completely different to Nintendo and Microsoft. Sony is a manufacturer of boxes containing electronics which has a strange obsession. Once upon a time they were the “in” brand […]