EA’s Battlefield Heroes business model working well
Battlefield Heroes is a cartoon action shooter game for the PC. Exactly the sort of game where you would expect to see well over 90% piracy. Which is the reason […]
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Exclusive Andrew Gower interview
Browser MMOs are very fashionable just now, but the market was led by Andrew Gower’s Runescape, which is in the Guinness book of Records, and the company Jagex, which he […]
The Wikipedia game, Wikispeedia
Wikispeedia is good fun and interesting! People can make a game out of anything. With this one you learn random stuff as you play. You are given two Wikipedia articles* […]
We need a PC App Store
The Apple iPhone App Store has revolutionised IP publishing over the last year and a bit. Tens of thousands of apps, billions of downloads. A business model that is so […]
Are home game consoles in danger?
I remember back in the late 1990s at Codemasters when as a publisher we had just two platforms we could develop for. The PC and the Playstation. By then Sega […]
Natal + Bill Gates = a huge story
The true importance of Natal to our future is gradually being revealed. Initially it was presented at E3 ’09 as a gesture interface for the Microsoft Xbox 360 that was […]
Google developing PC operating system
So Google have announced that they are taking on Microsoft directly with what will initially be a simple operating system for low end PCs, an area where Microsoft are particularly […]