We need a PC App Store
The Apple iPhone App Store has revolutionised IP publishing over the last year and a bit. Tens of thousands of apps, billions of downloads. A business model that is so […]
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Are home game consoles in danger?
I remember back in the late 1990s at Codemasters when as a publisher we had just two platforms we could develop for. The PC and the Playstation. By then Sega […]
Microsoft desperately need to get their mobile act together
Game capable smartphones, and their application stores, are one of the hottest and fastest growing areas of technology at the moment. And the growth potential is pretty close to infinite. […]
App Store, a nuclear bomb hits the game industry
It is strange how the game industry has evolved over the years, taking unexpected twists and turns. Who would have thought, for instance, that text based fantasy games would evolve […]
Is ngmoco the future of game publishing?
Earlier this month I wrote an article on here giving Electronic Arts some free consultancy. I have been speaking to a senior Electronic Arts executive since then and he suggested […]
Some free consultancy for Electronic Arts
To the office of John Riccitiello. You have had some success on iPhone with a relatively small number of high priced titles and have recently set up 8Ib Gorilla for […]
Apple reinvent the game industry
In August 2007, nearly two years ago, in this blog, I wrote an a article about the platform holders in which I said: “The video iPod looks like a gaming […]