News analysis and background

The stock exchange is stupid

Due to a mixture of government incompetence, financial market greed and consumer stupidity (in that order) we are now suffering a global financial correction. These happen periodically as part of a […]

Microsoft's on top

Microsoft, in the Xbox 360, have made the games platform for the keen gamer. It has the biggest catalogue of games this generation by some margin and Live has overwhelming superiority […]

Microsoft to spend massively promoting the 360. With emphasis on the family and casual gaming. This is the hammer blow. Sony cannot afford to compete with Microsoft on price and […]

Future Publishing in big poo?

When I was about 11 years old I discovered that my school took a range of daily newspapers, so I started reading them. Pretty soon I discovered that one of […]

Over the last year Activision have been taking peer to peer torrent game thieves to court. Here are the results: Shawn Guse of Federal Way, Washington agreed to pay Activision […]

ELSPA grow some

ELSPA (European Leisure Software Association) is the slightly self aggrandizing name for the UK’s game publisher’s club. They work hard at scratching the surface of game counterfeiting, but their main function […]

Silly Sega advertising

Now I am the first to say that sex and violence is a good thing in video games. They work well to enhance the game player’s emotional involvement with the […]