Microsoft act against the game pirates
This is brilliant. And about time too. Some people modify their Xbox game consoles so that they can steal games. They don’t want to pay the developers for all the […]
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What is going wrong in the game industry at the moment?
There are a lot of doom and gloom headlines around at the moment. Lots of development staff being laid off, games selling far less than expected, major publishers making massive […]
More immense Apple App Store numbers
The App Store is an accident of history. (But one that was predicted on here). Apple had been making MP3 tracks available for a few years on the iStore. When […]
A huge problem for Apple and the AppStore
Well, exactly as I predicted, piracy has become rampant for iPhone applications. If people can steal with no chance of getting caught then most people will. Ngmoco VP Alan Yu […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]