UK game company failures, 2009 predictions
With the current recession it is not surprising that people will speculate about which companies are going to fail. Here is a list of predicted company failures for this year, […]
2009
“Nothing more difficult” than new IP launch
Let’s get the facts out of the way first, Christian Svensson, Capcom’s VP, strategic planning and business development, has given an interview to GamesIndustry.biz in which he said “There is […]
Nintendo Vitality Sensor has great potential
At E3 in 2009 Nintendo announced their Vitality Sensor and the video game world yawned. Just recently they have announced that they will be showing games for it at 2010 […]
Sony get 3D
I have written on here before about 3D gaming and how it greatly enhances the experience and immersiveness of gaming. To me it is like being at the theatre, whilst […]
Game marketing is three times more important than product quality
This makes absolute complete and utter sense. People buy perceptions, not reality. And people are far more concerned about peer pressure than they are concerned about their own judgement. There […]
Kingory, Nap War, Evony, Empire Craft, Lords Online. What is going on?
We have at least five games originating in China now that are remarkably similar to each other. Evony you know about, Kingory I have written about before. Fog of War, […]
Game development clusters
30 years ago commercial videogames for home computers arrived in Liverpool when I brought a pile of Apple 2 games to Microdigital that I had bought at Computer Components of […]