Don’t play Evony
Evony is a new, free, browser MMO. And their marketing consists of spamming up the internet like crazy. This blog is receiving a huge number of spam “comments” from them. […]
gaming
More fun with Google Trends
As you can tell, I am enjoying this! The first article on Trends showed some delightful insight, let’s see what more we can find out. Android has come from nowhere […]
Fun with Google Trends
Google Trends is brilliant for seeing how well a brand is doing out there on the interweb and thus in the real world. Here is a traditional publisher going steadily […]
Video gaming and UK politics
Firstly let’s set out the playing field. Video gaming is really, really important. Economically it is almost certainly a £100 billion a year industry already and a single game can […]
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 […]
The decline of licenses in video games
At Codemasters, just a few year ago, most successful games contained some sort of license: MTV Music, Colin McRae Rally, LMA Manager, DTM and TOCA Racing, Micro Machines, American/Pop Idol, […]
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 […]