News analysis and background

Electronic Arts, what is the problem?

Electronic Arts infuriate me. In John Riccitiello they have one of the most perceptive, incisive and lucid managers in the whole of video gaming. Yet as a company they continue […]

Beatles For Sale

  Seems like I got it wrong yesterday. The players are the same: Harmonix, MTV and the Beatles. The story is somewhat different. Rather than just featuring as another band […]

  Sony go “open platform” with their PS2 in that there is now no need to get content approval. They are also going for a global approvals system and allowing […]

Ubisoft first half year report

I don’t usually put much effort into reporting company results, but these Ubisoft ones help to illustrate a few points. They show how global publishers are these days, the degree […]

Huge British retailer rocks the industry

HMV (His Master’s Voice) was a large British record label that morphed into becoming the largest high street entertainment retailer in the UK. Their annual turnover is around £2 billion and […]

Xbox fanboys run amok. I have written on here before about fanboys and their uncontrolled and childish online behaviour. Now they are targeting Metacritic. LittleBigPlanet has a Metacritic of 95% […]

Xbox 360 looking better and better in Japan

People said that Microsoft would never succeed in Japan with the Xbox 360 because the Japanese only bought their own consumer electronics. These people, obviously have no explanation for the phenomenal […]