Facebook on smartphones to take over the world
The internet is changing very fast. Take video for instance, last year (2009) YouTube was bigger than the whole internet was in the year 2000. And in many ways Facebook […]
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Exclusive Andrew Gower interview
Browser MMOs are very fashionable just now, but the market was led by Andrew Gower’s Runescape, which is in the Guinness book of Records, and the company Jagex, which he […]
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 […]
Who plays Runescape?
I just had a chat with a 12 year old who has been playing Runescape for a couple of years. Currently, in his summer holiday, he is playing it for […]
Killing off World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is an amazing gaming phenomenon and is the cash cow of all cash cows. It has 11 million monthly subscribers, which is over 60% of the total […]
Will this beat World of Warcraft?
One of the effects of capitalism is that competition drives prices down. Hence globalisation enables us to buy far more stuff with our money than ever before. And where something […]
Over 1 million sign for Free Realms in 17 days
I have said many times that I like business models other than paying at the point of purchase. I have also said that I think MMOs and social networking will […]