News analysis and background

Sega lose $119 million in the 9 months to 31.12.08. Sales down 15.4%, 560 out of 3,100 global staff to lose their jobs and a 20% cut in “R&D” which […]

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Electronic Arts business disaster. $641 million loss for Q4 ’08. 12 facilities to close 1,100 staff to go. All whilst gaming is booming like never before. So EA’s management cannot […]

Sony disaster

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I think I should start this be saying that I have always admired Sony. Their combination of quality, technology and design has been spot on for decades. So I have […]

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Warner Brothers confirm the third Tomb Raider movie. (The previous two were made by Paramount). This is indicative of two relationships. The first between Warners and Eidos, which could well […]

Netbooks explode on the market

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As you all know the world economy is in a bad shape just now and that malaise extends to the technology and IT industries much as it does to everything […]

How Britain loses quality jobs

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When I was at Codemasters the Race Driver series (now Grid) and the Colin McRae series (now labelled as Dirt) were made by two large teams of highly skilled game […]

Sony loses $1.7 billion

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This is massive news. As recently as October Sony were predicting a profit, now they have made their first loss in 14 years. Already they have an austerity programme in […]