Why the TV industry is dying
It’s happening pretty much worldwide. Less and less people are watching television. So there is less advertising revenue (and the recession just makes this worse), so there is less money […]
Opinion
Will Electronic Arts be bought out?
I am a great fan of John Riccitiello, he talks the talk and says more sensible things than just about any other game industry manager. More than that he has […]
Beating the pirates by being cheap
Everyone knows that you sell more of something when it is cheaper, the economists call it price elasticity of demand. So in the days of budget games for 8 bit […]
Game addictiveness is a real problem
We have all done it. Played a game right through the night. The first time for me was Game Boy Tetris. Which was probably a good thing in that this […]
Game retailers on suicide mission
I read in the Independent newspaper on Sunday that the sale of Volvo heavy trucks was 115 units when for the same period last year they sold 41,970 trucks. A […]
Some failing new technology
The thing about new technology is that there is always the risk of failure. No matter how good an idea may seem to inventors and investors, the public may have […]
How many Xbox 360s will ship Q4 2008?
Obviously Microsoft know the answer to this one because they have already decided their manufacture numbers. We can only guess. So lets look what happened in the last two years. […]