$304,149,300 stolen from Activision
That’s right, over 300 million dollars stolen just of the one game, Modern Warfare 2, in 2009. Obviously Activision had much more stolen from them with other titles, but MW2 […]
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Beware, online video games can be very dangerous!
The inspiration for this piece came from this article in The Times: A man who hacked into accounts to steal virtual characters and their possessions on one of the world’s […]
Game sales down by 18%
Last week we had the USA October sales statistics from NPD showing game sales of $573 million, down from $698 million last year. So are we in trouble? Is gaming […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
The game mechanic and its subversion
The mechanic behind games is quite simple. Firstly you are given assets or skills, secondly you are given a task or a problem to solve then thirdly you are rewarded […]