Opinion

Are kids safe playing online games?

Before we start on this it is worth saying that there are lots and lots of vastly worse things on the internet than games. Holocaust denial and suicide assistance for […]

Game industry management

  I have covered this subject on here before but recent events have brought it once more into focus. Basically the history of management in the British video game industry is a […]

The HD tipping point

  This has to be the biggest event in this generation of consoles. The point when 130 million (150 million if you include Wii) owners of old generation consoles decide […]

Industry organisations in the UK #2

  The second industry organisation in the UK is TIGA, which stands for Independent Games Developers Trade Association. Once again it isn’t what it says it is with publishers, non independent […]

  It seems that one of the defining attributes of the current generation of consoles will be the very large number of homes that have two of them. Mainly because the […]

Industry organisations in the UK #1

  Trade organisations are peculiar entities. They exist on the basis that the members have sufficient problems in common to overcome their natural competitive attitudes towards each other. I was involved […]

Have we got it wrong with graphics?

When I was working at Codemasters in the mid eighties Richard Darling was considered to be a gaming god with a string of number one titles at Mastertronic and then […]