I’ve spent the weekend playing Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. It’s a little like the SCi classic Carmageddon: you drive a fully-destroyable 4×4 around a 3D world, performing stunts, running over dinosaurs and collecting points. The ostensible purpose is...

According to the Financial Times yesterday, songwriters and publishers for the first time earned more from broadcasts and legal downloads of their music in 2007 than from the copyright from sales of CDs. I believe that this...

Ynon Kreisz has just been appointed Chief Executive of Endemol, the TV production company that makes Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. The production company was acquired for €3.1 billion last year by Goldman Sachs Capital...

David Ruffley MP has recently been drawn into a bit of hoohah after a number of papers tied his Parliamentary questions to about how many retailers had been prosecuted for selling 18-rated video games with a report...

Real Networks has announced that it will spin off its casual games division. It’s a pretty big business with revenues of $31.8 million in the first quarter of 2008 ($108 million for the whole of 2007), and...

MCV published the online version of my article How the music industry got it wrong today (republished here as The games industry should learn from the music industry’s mistakes). The thrust of the article is that consumers are...

The purpose of this blog is to explore the future of gaming in all its guises. My primary focus is on the thesis that games and connectivity are tightly bound together, and this integration will deepen over...