A bit of news analysis
After nearly 30 years the unholy Wintel alliance is over. Microsoft have finally realised that there are other processors in the world and have embraced the ARM chip. Superficially this […]
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 […]
No light at the end of the tunnel for Electronic Arts
For very many years Electronic Arts were the biggest game publisher on earth. They have an income of billions every year and they employ thousands of people all around the […]
Kingdoms of Camelot
I have written many times about the convergence of social networking and gaming. Kingdoms of Camelot represents a step change along this path. It is by far the most ambitious […]
Social networking and gaming #2
Way back in 2007 I wrote here: “One of the biggest issues and trends in gaming is the way that gaming is drifting towards social networking and vice versa. So […]
Gamer’s Voice on Facebook. Tom Watson gets it right
Everyone reading this will know that most mainstream journalists and most politicians do not understand video games, it is one of the main themes of this blog and so has […]
Game industry news stories
Over the last week, whilst I was in Spain, a number of interesting stories supporting my world view made the news. Here are a few of them. Warner Bros. (with […]