2008

Is your PC running a bit slow?

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(public domain diagram from Wikimedia Commons) I have had this before and last time it was a trojan, so I knew what to do. I didn’t realise that it was […]

£25 ($50) logo

Logos are great, a small piece of visual shorthand that represents something much bigger. A brand, a product, a service. Our lives are full of them and we each have […]

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News Corporation, famously, were unique amongst the big Holywood studios/global media companies in having no game publishing presence. Despite the fact that gaming, inevitably, will grow to be bigger than […]

What is going wrong at the ESA?

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Every trade or industry needs it’s own association. Around 1979/1980 I was involved in founding the Computer Retailer Association in the UK for an industry that had only just been […]

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Wii Fit drops out of the UK top 40 from number two the previous week. Nobody saw this coming, an almost unprecedented sales collapse. Was this supply constrained or is […]

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Jack Thompson is a rabid, self publicist American lawyer who has made a reputation (and presumably money) for himself by a continued attack on video games, often using mistruths and deception to […]

Wii cracked with no hardware mods

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Victories are inevitable in the technology war between platform holder and hacker/pirate. No matter how clever the former are the latter will always catch up. This has always been so. Once […]