Alice, revolution or fad?
The guys that do the marketing for the big Hollywood studios know what they are doing, the games industry is in the dark ages by comparison. And movies have suddenly […]
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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 […]
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 […]
No light at the end of the tunnel for Electronic Arts
For very many years Electronic Arts were the biggest game publisher on earth. They have an income of billions every year and they employ thousands of people all around the […]
Sony and PS3. Looking good
Being a hardware platform holder is not easy, there are so many pressures waiting to destroy you, technology, competition, piracy, fashion. So, over the years we have seen many platform […]
The Wii is dead. What will Nintendo do?
The Wii isn’t clinically dead yet, but its best days are well behind it. Sales are massively down, and with that so are Nintendo’s profits and their share price. So […]
Microsoft Xbox 360 set to dominate
The Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division was able to start the year by telling the world that they are three times more profitable than they were a year ago. Q4 […]