AAA games. A broken business model
I have written about this before, but now some commentators have had their $0.02 worth, so I thought I would revisit the topic. Game executives and financial people all over […]
Modern Warfare 2
Facebook on smartphones to take over the world
The internet is changing very fast. Take video for instance, last year (2009) YouTube was bigger than the whole internet was in the year 2000. And in many ways Facebook […]
Don’t make video games out of movies
Before we start I do know all about Golden Eye, the exception that proves the rule. This was made by Rare at the height of their pomp yet ironically by […]
$304,149,300 stolen from Activision
That’s right, over 300 million dollars stolen just of the one game, Modern Warfare 2, in 2009. Obviously Activision had much more stolen from them with other titles, but MW2 […]
Game sales down by 18%
Last week we had the USA October sales statistics from NPD showing game sales of $573 million, down from $698 million last year. So are we in trouble? Is gaming […]
Modern Warfare 2 and game pricing
Firstly you may well have heard that most console games make a loss and it is only the occasional hit that pays to keep the industry going. I have to […]
Modern Warfare 2 Vs Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
I worked on the original Operation Flashpoint at Codemasters (I am even in the game!). At the time we were mainly a console publisher and were being hammered by PS1 […]