London Game Festival 2009
Next week is the fourth London Game Festival. A collection of 12 events during the week, a format that seems to be working nicely. Here is a list of all […]
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Train2Game, Eversheds and reputation management
Patrick Charnley of the solicitors Eversheds has sent me a letter on behalf of their client Train2Game. This is eactly how legal reputation management works. They are trying to bully […]
The Chinese video game market
My personal experience of Chinese video games goes back to the Chinese government banning the Codemasters game IGI2 in 2004. A massive blow when we had no sales or distribution […]
A huge problem for Apple and the AppStore
Well, exactly as I predicted, piracy has become rampant for iPhone applications. If people can steal with no chance of getting caught then most people will. Ngmoco VP Alan Yu […]
GameStop director Leonard Riggio shows us the future
Leonard Riggio is board chairman of GameStop and until recently owned 6.9% of the company. He now owns 5.5% of the company having sold 2.3 million shares for about $60 […]
A hidden danger of MMOs
A massive multiplayer game (MMO) runs primarily on very powerful servers that live in the internet cloud. This is obviously essential so that all the interaction between players and with […]
The future of books
We must have a ton of paper in our house in the form of books. Some great literature, my wife’s degree materials, the libraries for my hobbies such as SCUBA […]