“Nothing more difficult” than new IP launch
Let’s get the facts out of the way first, Christian Svensson, Capcom’s VP, strategic planning and business development, has given an interview to GamesIndustry.biz in which he said “There is […]
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You don’t want to work in the video game industry
There are now many hundreds of millions of people playing video games. It is inevitable that many millions of these are great gaming enthusiasts and that many of these want […]
Massive redundancies at Electronic Arts
The latest news will come as no surprise to readers here. I have written multiple articles on how and why Electronic Arts is losing so much money. And I have […]
What is going wrong in the game industry at the moment?
There are a lot of doom and gloom headlines around at the moment. Lots of development staff being laid off, games selling far less than expected, major publishers making massive […]
Microsoft to buy Electronic Arts?
Since 2007 I have been predicting on here that Electronic Arts (EA) would be bought out. At one stage it looked very much as if Apple were going to be […]
EA’s Battlefield Heroes business model working well
Battlefield Heroes is a cartoon action shooter game for the PC. Exactly the sort of game where you would expect to see well over 90% piracy. Which is the reason […]
Tiger Woods Wii, an Electronic Arts epiphany?
Electronic Arts fascinate any industry observer. Strip away World of Warcraft and they are probably still the world’s biggest game publisher. They publish more genres of games and on more […]