Habbo: This is our future
I suspect that many reading this will not know of Habbo, and why should they? It is something for teenagers, you can’t buy it in the shops and the only […]
Opinion
The biggest danger to video gaming
I have been there twice when this has happened. The first time it bust the company I worked for, and it was not the only one. The companies that survived […]
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Many years ago, when I was young, we had a pop/rock music revolution. And it belonged to us, the young generation. And all the old people, like 25 and over, […]
The TV industry is losing badly
When it has luminaries like Michael Grade (executive chairman of ITV) in charge. Just what was he thinking about when he said that video games exist in a ‘moral vacuum’ compared to […]
Is the game industry mismanaged?
When I sold my computer store, Microdigital, to Laskys (part of the Ladbroke group of companies) in the early 1980s one of the first things they did was to bundle me off […]
Are Social Networking and MMORPGs the same thing?
There is a theory going round that the big social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are a fad that has had it’s day. That the members have had their fun […]
A big Microsoft mistake?
The so called console cycle sees new generations of machines released approximately every 5 to 6 years, but having a production life of around 10 years. So the generations overlap. This enables […]