How promiscuous should you be on Linkedin?
Social networking is a massive and amazing phenomenon of our times. The statistics are staggering with about 100 major services. Friendster has 47 million members, hi5 has 50 million, MySpace […]
August 2007
Web 2.0 and the games industry ostriches
Let’s start with an executive (ie simplified) summary for those at the back who haven’t kept up. Web 1.0 ended in the dotcom bust because it was difficult to monetise […]
Publisher consolidation
So EA now owns 25% of Ubisoft. This purchase really should come as no shock and I am suprised there isn’t more of it yet. There soon will be. The […]
The platform holders
This is something that is either taken for granted as in “Microsoft are bringing out the 720 we will put our games on it” or treated from a fanboy perspective […]
Games are art
Someone I have never heard of before, Roger Ebert, has been making a big splash saying that games are not art. In my opinion he is wrong. What is or […]
Fu**ing censorship
Computer gaming is, obviously, the most recent of the popular entertainment media. It is also the least understood by non users. Unfortunately it is these non users who run the […]
We are still at the beginning of the industry
The computer games industry, as we now know it, started in the early 1980s. I was there at Imagine Software in Liverpool. Now at over 20 years old it has […]