Kingory, Nap War, Evony, Empire Craft, Lords Online. What is going on?
We have at least five games originating in China now that are remarkably similar to each other. Evony you know about, Kingory I have written about before. Fog of War, […]
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Will lightning strike twice at Apple?
I opened one of the first computer stores, Microdigital in Liverpool, in 1978. So I was in a good position to see the rise of Apple to dominate the personal […]
The Chinese video game market
My personal experience of Chinese video games goes back to the Chinese government banning the Codemasters game IGI2 in 2004. A massive blow when we had no sales or distribution […]
A hidden danger of MMOs
A massive multiplayer game (MMO) runs primarily on very powerful servers that live in the internet cloud. This is obviously essential so that all the interaction between players and with […]
The future of books
We must have a ton of paper in our house in the form of books. Some great literature, my wife’s degree materials, the libraries for my hobbies such as SCUBA […]
Lack of games under development
There is increasing anecdotal evidence and deductions from news items indicate that there is currently a big slowdown in games under development worldwide. Development staff are being laid off in […]
Nokia Booklet 3G netbook
I have said previously that the netbook and mobile phone markets are converging at some speed. And here is some further evidence of that convergence, Nokia’s first PC, the Booklet […]