DRM hits resale more than piracy?
In this article 2D Boy co-founder Ron Carmel thinks that PC DRM doesn’t do much to stop piracy and that the publishers use it more to stop the trade in […]
May 2009
Sony is not totally screwed up
Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, has just given this very perceptive interview and I highly recommend reading it. Here are a few highlights. “A crisis is also an opportunity.” This […]
8,450 game industry redundancies since July
The game industry is booming at retail but lots of developers and publishers are making losses and even going bust. Which is putting thousands of development and publishing staff out […]
rFactor, the best motor racing game
rFactor is a motor racing video game that runs on PCs, it is an accurate simulation, rather than an arcade game. And it has gained a formidable reputation despite not […]
Germans to ban paintball
In the aftermath of the Winnenden shootings the German government is going to ban paintball because it trivialises and encorages violence. I kid you not. On this level of brilliant […]
Duke Nukem Forever management farce
I have repeatedly written on here about the often abysmal level of game industry management. Duke Nukem Forever has just been cancelled after over 12 years in development. You have […]
The upcoming Apple game console
Pure speculation this, but more than eminently possible. Apple went from being a computer manufacturer to a consumer toy maker with the iPod. They then morphed into also being a […]