News analysis and background

According to iSuppli  looking at software sales, Nintendo moved up to number one in Q3 with $1.2 billion, Sony were down at number two with $1 billion and Microsoft were still at number three […]

A week with a lot less going on. Just managed to scrape together the 8 news items. PS2 reaches 7th birthday and 120 million sales. If the PS1 is anything […]

This makes perfect sense. Toshiba own the HD DVD patents and they are at war with Sony, as are Microsoft. They can see the Trojan horse effect that Sony are […]

Oh dear. Nolan, Nolan, Nolan...

Nolan Bushnell is a revered creator of some of the elements that make up our industry today. Pong and Atari for starters . But he also, famously, turned down Steve […]

Wow, there is a lot happening. I thought I would combine a few things in one article: Russian chessboard killer found guilty. Let this be a warning about the dangers […]

Social networking and gaming

One of the biggest issues and trends in gaming is the way that gaming is drifting towards social networking and vice versa. So eventually they will meet in the middle […]