A history of the UK video game industry through my eyes. Part 3
Whilst Codemasters was an exciting place to be it was also very much a family company and I felt that I would never get the rewards and recognition that could […]
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What successful iPhone games have in common
Regular readers here will know that marketing is both a creative art and a science. This is part of what makes it both fascinating and demanding. Here is an article […]
Nintendo 3DS, the first true 3D console
Nintendo were in a bit of a corner really with the sudden spurt of growth in the smartphone market and the associated application stores. From a strategic marketing perspective Nintendo […]
App store sales = broken business model?
Neil Young (not the Canadian grunge musician) is a man who knows what he is doing. Like me he was involved in the Sinclair Spectrum game industry in Britain in […]
I bought a smartphone
So at long last the day has come, I don’t use a mobile phone very much. And when I do I don’t use the extra features, I don’t even text. […]
Facebook on smartphones to take over the world
The internet is changing very fast. Take video for instance, last year (2009) YouTube was bigger than the whole internet was in the year 2000. And in many ways Facebook […]
Smartphones. Microsoft deliver
Day one of the Mobile World Congress and already Microsoft have delivered, massively. But they needed to, they were being left well behind. In fact Microsoft could have been reading […]