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 […]
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App store sales = broken business model?
Neil Young (not the Canadian grunge musician) is a man who knows what he is doing. Like me he was involved in the Sinclair Spectrum game industry in Britain in […]
Very bad news for Sony, the PS3 is cracked
George Hotz is a very well known American hacker, famous for being the first to break the security of the iPhone. Now he has told the BBC that he has […]
An answer to game theft and secondhand games
On my recent visits to video game stores I was unsurprised to see that the secondhand game section is now just as big as the new game section. This must […]
What game thieves have to say for themselves
There is no doubt whatsoever that downloading and playing a game that should have been paid for is theft. The perpetrator is benefiting from another person’s labour that has a […]
$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 […]
A true measure of Microsoft Xbox 360 success
So today we are looking at the console platforms and their performance in the American market (the world’s biggest) from a software sales point of view. This is looking at […]