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92% Piracy

  In 2000/1 at Codemasters I was involved in the marketing of an excellent fantasy combat game for the PC called Severance Blade of Darkness, from the Spanish developer Rebel Act […]

Is Blu-ray a Microsoft victory?

  So Sony have won the format war for HD TV content distribution. The Blu-ray disk has beaten HD DVD to become the new standard. The first Sony media victory since […]

Sick self publicist

  For those who don’t know Jack Thompson is a rabidly anti game American lawyer who has been repeatedly discredited. After the tragic Virginia Tech shootings he went on Fox […]

How big will Super Smash Bros. Brawl be?

  Massive, obviously. It is reviewing as being one of the best games ever. A major coup for Nintendo, following so close after Super Mario Galaxy (SMG) and preceding Mario Kart. This […]

There’s a lot going on just now. Too many stories that wouldn’t wait! Nintendo Lost an Estimated $975 Million to Piracy in ’07.  Gives you an idea how much is […]

HD consoles prepare for price war

  Whilst the outside of a console may remain unchanged through many years of production the internals go through multiple revisions. Some of these are forced, such as when Microsoft […]

Apple make very significant trademark filing. Extending cover to: “hand-held units for playing electronic games; hand-held units for playing video games; stand alone video game machines; electronic games other than those […]