News analysis and background

Apple announce the revised iPhone. The camera is still a load of rubbish. Other than that they seem to be going for world domination with greatly uprated capabilities and a […]

The White Knight rides in at Take Two

Forbes magazine are now speculating that Take Two are going to avoid a predatory takeover from Electronic Arts by instead merging with Ubisoft. This makes a lot of sense. From a game […]

Phil Harrison makes interesting prediction. In Eurogamer he says: “Alone in the Dark is a beautifully crafted single-player adventure game. I don’t think the industry is going to make many […]

News Corporation, famously, were unique amongst the big Holywood studios/global media companies in having no game publishing presence. Despite the fact that gaming, inevitably, will grow to be bigger than […]

What is going wrong at the ESA?

Every trade or industry needs it’s own association. Around 1979/1980 I was involved in founding the Computer Retailer Association in the UK for an industry that had only just been […]

Wii Fit drops out of the UK top 40 from number two the previous week. Nobody saw this coming, an almost unprecedented sales collapse. Was this supply constrained or is […]