Alice, revolution or fad?
The guys that do the marketing for the big Hollywood studios know what they are doing, the games industry is in the dark ages by comparison. And movies have suddenly […]
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AAA games. A broken business model
I have written about this before, but now some commentators have had their $0.02 worth, so I thought I would revisit the topic. Game executives and financial people all over […]
No light at the end of the tunnel for Electronic Arts
For very many years Electronic Arts were the biggest game publisher on earth. They have an income of billions every year and they employ thousands of people all around the […]
The Wii is dead. What will Nintendo do?
The Wii isn’t clinically dead yet, but its best days are well behind it. Sales are massively down, and with that so are Nintendo’s profits and their share price. So […]
Some very strange pronouncements from Microsoft
I have predicted in the past that eventually Microsoft’s Xbox/Live/Zune business would grow to become bigger than their PC business. If you look at the trends over the last two […]
$304,149,300 stolen from Activision
That’s right, over 300 million dollars stolen just of the one game, Modern Warfare 2, in 2009. Obviously Activision had much more stolen from them with other titles, but MW2 […]
The market will be blockbusters, niche products and nothing else
I have been prompted to write this by a leader column in the Economist and it is something I have alluded to in previous articles. This is something that has […]