Why Electronics Arts losses doubled
Electronic Arts (EA) have been making so many losses for so long that I am amazed that nobody has done anything about it. This time they have doubled their loss […]
2009
Joke console sales projection
TVG has predicted that Playstation PS3 sales are going to overtake Xbox 360 sales in January 2011. Using the flakiest of science. All they have done is to extend sales […]
Exclusive interview, Philip Oliver of Blitz Games Studios
I have known Philip (and his twin brother Andrew) for over 20 years now. We worked together when they wrote Sinclair Spectrum games for Codemasters, including the phenomenally successful Dizzy […]
Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2009
A part of the broader Edinburgh Festival, this presents games as a intrinsic part of our culture, a position I have always enthusiastically supported. “Edinburgh Interactive Industry Conference The Edinburgh […]
Another disaster for Sega
We get used to reading these. Sega software sales drop by 60.5% for their Q1 ’09. And they lost $108 million in the three months. What does this tell us?: […]
Are home game consoles in danger?
I remember back in the late 1990s at Codemasters when as a publisher we had just two platforms we could develop for. The PC and the Playstation. By then Sega […]
Rejected Wii games
The gesture interface presents us with infinite possibilities.