The ZX Goldenyears web page about the early days of the industry in Liverpool has stopped working. Luckily it is still in the Google cache. I am copying it here so […]

  I have been in the home computer business for just getting on for 30 years and have seen the amazing transformations that even now continue to happen. Of course […]

  Browsing the internet I came across this interview of me in Your Spectrum from June 1984. It brings up several issues that were very pertinent at the time and which […]

Codemasters never saw their IP as being brands. Throughout their entire history there are a huge number of great one off games that never saw a sequel. Instead the focus was […]

  You could use this story in a marketing textbook of how not to do it. In 2003 Pop Idol was the biggest TV show in the UK and American […]

  Codemaster owned one of the very first MMORPGs, The Realm. It made steady revenues but was getting a bit dated, so was unlikely to set the world on fire. […]

  One upon a time Codemasters had a great football management game called LMA manager. It was the best selling game of it’s type on console and annually a new version […]