Android and Apple both go for it
Smartphones are going to put more processing power in the hands of more people than computers and game consoles put together. And it is going to happen very quickly indeed. […]
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Lack of games under development
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 […]
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 […]
Nintendo DS being killed off by game theft
I have written on here many times about game piracy and how damaging it is. And yet again, right now, another gaming platform is being destroyed by software thieves. Once […]
Apple App Store, over 13,000 iPhone and iPod touch games
This must ram home some lessons for the game industry worldwide: Online game distribution works far better for everyone (except retail) than plastic and cardboard distribution. This is more than […]
Nintendo act to stop thieves
Thieves must cost Nintendo billions a year, stealing games that should have been paid for. Mostly using the R4 device. It appears that at long last Nintendo have got their […]
The rise and rise of the humble telephone
There is no way that Alexander Graham Bell could have predicted that his humble invention, the telephone, would grow to become the most important and significant device used by virtually […]