Entries in 'Opinion' (68)
OPINION: Sony says Welcome Back
Let's be clear. Sony could have announced last night that all PS3 and PSP owners were to be given £1,000 in gold bullion personally signed by Brad Pitt, free PS3 ...
OPINION: PSN breach is bad for digital but good for High Street
For all the headlines in recent years about digital destroying traditional retail, the recent PSN crisis sees us return to reality.
OPINION: What to do with 'media bullshit'?
There are two ways you can react upon reading a typical gaming outcry in the mainstream media. You can cry foul. Or you can take the piss. Or ...
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OPINION: Do We Dare?
What's most interesting to me is that for the second time in as many weeks its the reaction of my peers in the games industry on Twitter that has moved ...
OPINION: The time to build a second ‘Golden Age’ is now
Working with Alex Hope of Double Negative since July last year, I’ve had the privilege of leading the largest quantitative research study to date on skills in the video games ...
RETROSPECTIVE: Guitar Hero
I've been a gamer for effectively as long as I remember. My first memories stray back as far as the early '80s when my parents purchased an Atari 2600. I ...
OPINION: We all win if trade bodies merge
Only the other day I joked to one of the leaders of our two trade associations that we were due the yearly, previously silly, ‘Why don’t you guys merge?’ questioning ...
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Nintendo on NGP, Sony on 3DS
With the NGP now fully exposed and the 3DS just two months from release, the 2011 handheld battle lines have been drawn – but both platform holders are remaining coy ...
OPINION: Will NGP defeat pre-owned?
Sony’s new physical format has the potential to change the face of the pre-owned market.
OPINION: The handheld battleground is drawn
It may have lost many men in the battle of 2010, but General Wii still stands tall on the battlefield that is taking place under the world's TVs. From the ...
OPINION: Getting over the winter blues
A third of the execs we surveyed for our look ahead at 2011 named 3DS as their highlight of the year.
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Why retail and Steam should work together
It’s not surprising that PC gamers turned to different methods of distribution, and that Steam has filled that need perfectly.
OPINION: New games avenues
I feel like a teenager again. I’m not bouncing with hormones of course, but am rattled by uncertainty as to what the future will bring. As a consultant it would ...
OPINION: What FIFA tells us about retail
FIFA had its largest launch ever this week, and the third largest of any game in the UK. Well done EA, pats on the backs for everyone, yes yes.
OPINION: Morgan success at GAME will not be matched
Where GAME goes from here will depend on the vision of its next CEO.
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Editorial: Good riddance to NIMF
There's a bizarre sentiment in some game outlets that the closure of U.S. busy-body media-watching outfit The National Institute on Media and the Family, might somehow be detrimental to the ...
