Goodbye BBFC
Brilliant news. The Digital Britain review has come out in favour of the PEGI system of game age classification, as championed on here (and the rest of the industry). And […]
Here comes the Microsoft Xbox 3 / Xbox 720
Game consoles are just specialist computers and so, like all computers, they obey Moore’s Law. This is something that it is very important to keep in mind when looking at […]
Modern Warfare 2 Vs Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
I worked on the original Operation Flashpoint at Codemasters (I am even in the game!). At the time we were mainly a console publisher and were being hammered by PS1 […]
Killing off World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is an amazing gaming phenomenon and is the cash cow of all cash cows. It has 11 million monthly subscribers, which is over 60% of the total […]
I disagree with Michael Pachter
Bill Gates famously said that most people overestimate the effect of technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long time. This is easy to see as […]
Where to next with netbooks?
Netbook computers have become a massive phenomenon. With their small form factor they make far more sense than traditional laptop computers. And the Intel Atom processors have provided exactly the […]
IP thieves ignore warning letters
UK legal firm Wiggin has questioned 1,500 consumers in order to research attitudes towards piracy. Just 33% receiving a letter from their ISP would stop pirating content. 80% would stop […]