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Interesting stuff from Habbo Hotel

  In previous articles I have written about how important Habbo Hotel (now with 86 million users) and free gaming are. Now let’s look at a couple of really great things […]

Nintendo reassures third-party publishers. There has been a lot of talk in the development community that only Nintendo can make money out of the Wii. Nintendo don’t want to lose third […]

Electronic Arts pushes ad-backed video games. This is important stuff, the business model for boxed PC games is broken because of piracy. So now EA are giving Battlefield Heroes away […]

SCi resignations

  Regular readers here will be well aware that in global IP publishing there are enormous economies of scale. These infer a great competitive advantage on big publishers. This is […]

PS3 production cost halved with the 40GB model. It is these reductions on the Microsoft Xbox 360 as well as on the Sony PS3 that will be essential for the […]