The Codemasters Season – an introduction
 Next week is Codemasters season here at Bruceongames. A series of articles look at some of the product disasters that cost the company fortunes and which, ultimately, led to […]
Anecdotal musing
Commercial Breaks
 Here are the videos of the demise of Imagine. I hadn’t seen them for ages. They show the point at which game piracy destroyed the full priced 8 bit game […]
Choosing a PR company
 When I first joined Codemasters in 1985 it was a new company and I was in charge of all marketing. As we were selling budget games for £1.99 each there […]
I found an old CV
In the process of moving house last week I found an old CV. Looking at it reminded me of just what things were like in the beginning. Because we were […]
UK politics and games
When I was at Codemasters I was a member of the Games Industry Forum, a pan industry talking shop that met regularly under the aegis of the DTI in London. It […]
Real spies
During the early 1980s there were a number of superstar journalists in the area of microcomputers and home technology. They did a fantastic job of driving public awareness. People like Guy […]
Platform generation transition
A few years ago, at the height of the PS2 generation, I was at an industry conference in London. The speaker asked the audience for a show of hands as […]