Viacom to buy Take Two?
 It will come as zero surprise to anyone who reads this blog that Viacom are heavily rumoured to be about to buy Take Two. Viacom  is one of a […]
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Eight new stories 7.2
Hello Kitty Online. Another competitor for Habbo Hotel, Runescape, Dofus, Club Penguin, MapleStory and others. Hello Kitty seems to have good social networking, which is essential. The competition (and potential rewards) in […]
Time to learn French
Uncle Clive has a lot to answer for. Stick your head into most game development teams around the world and you will hear the dulcet tones of a true English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish […]
Are kids safe playing online games?
Before we start on this it is worth saying that there are lots and lots of vastly worse things on the internet than games. Holocaust denial and suicide assistance for […]
Commercial Breaks
 Here are the videos of the demise of Imagine. I hadn’t seen them for ages. They show the point at which game piracy destroyed the full priced 8 bit game […]
How to pirate Microsoft Xbox 360 games
In the world of the pirates copied games are called “backups”. The technique to allow your Xbox 360 to play backups is called “flash” and there is a very good […]
Grand Theft Auto IV real world viral campaign
 I have said before that real world old media is still often far faster and far more powerful for marketing than online. So it is nice to see City of […]