Telephone gaming gets hotter still
What we are currently seeing with mobile telephones is the fastest and biggest ever change in video gaming. Developments are almost daily as the competitive war between handset providers power […]
May 2009
180,000 copies of The Sims 3 stolen in 4 days
Just how long can this level of theft go on? And after the immense scale of thieving of Spore you would have to wonder whether Electronic Arts will give up […]
Halo MMO: 300,000 simultaneous players?
The rumour mills are running hot after Microsoft put the following in a job advertisement: “And that’s not all, Microsoft is currently building a backend capable of hosting a 300,000 […]
Sky TV content comes to Xbox Live
This will bring films, TV and live sports onto Live. Which means that soon you will be able to also enjoy all this on your Zune HD! Microsoft really are […]
Seven million UK thieves
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) commissioned new research that has 7 million people in the UK stealing content online. Researchers discovered 1.3 million people using one file […]
20 million active users on Xbox Live
Nobody can deny that Microsoft have done it. They have become a success in only the second generation of their console product. And against embedded competition. Xbox is now a […]
Eight percent of gamers are addicts
I have written about this before and for the gaming industry it is a far bigger problem than violence in games (which isn’t really a problem except in the minds […]