Will lightning strike twice at Apple?
I opened one of the first computer stores, Microdigital in Liverpool, in 1978. So I was in a good position to see the rise of Apple to dominate the personal […]
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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 […]
App Store pricing
there is audio missing in this video 9:44-11:00 In the 1980s I was in charge of marketing at a couple of big game publishers. Imagine and Codemasters. The main market […]
Are home game consoles in danger?
I remember back in the late 1990s at Codemasters when as a publisher we had just two platforms we could develop for. The PC and the Playstation. By then Sega […]
App Store, a nuclear bomb hits the game industry
It is strange how the game industry has evolved over the years, taking unexpected twists and turns. Who would have thought, for instance, that text based fantasy games would evolve […]
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 […]
Sony PSP Go
So, as predicted, Sony have removed the UMD drive from the PSP and replaced it with 16 Gbytes of internal flash memory with the option of adding Memory Stick Micros. […]