Firstly an explanation. I am not writing regularly here now because I am concentrating on another blog, Bruce on Politics. There are two developer/publisher companies which have consistently claimed to […]
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 […]
The eternal problem of selling a video game as a stand alone package is that it can and will be stolen. If people think that they can get away with […]
There is increasing anecdotal evidence and deductions from news items indicate that there is currently a big slowdown in games under development worldwide. Development staff are being laid off in […]
In the old 8 bit days we had fanzines, badly printed A5 bundles of enthusiasm. And a breeding ground for journalistic talent. Now we have the web fansites, which are […]
I was actually in at the very beginning of this in the late 70s and early 80s. Back then if you wrote a game you had to manufacture, market and […]
When I was younger a lot of my friends went to work in their family companies. Their parents often insisted that they start at the bottom and learn every job […]