I can watch a TV show live, in crystal-clear digital HD or, I can stream it from iPlayer when I want. At lower quality. Not bad quality, but I could have better, at the cost...

The games world is limbering up for its own titanic struggle—a battle of the old versus the new. A battle between the bombast and hype of traditional, high-quality console games and the metrics-led marketing of the new...

Last week, Dean Takahashi of Venturebeat wrote a post on the threat posed by Apple TV to the existing console manufacturers. He said: “Apple has the premium brand name and the huge momentum of iTunes, an established...

GamesIndustry.biz reports on a FADE report estimating XBLA sales in 2009. Here’s the top 10. XBLA Estimated Top Titles by Revenue, 2009 (Average Price) Battlefield 1943 (EA Dice) – $12.5 million ($15.00) Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) –...

How’s that for a reversal. Ever since GAMESbrief launched at the start of 2009, I’ve been banging the drum for the way the games industry is changing. I’ve blogged about Facebook games, web games, iPhone games. Even...

  This is the FOURTH part of the first chapter of a book proposal I sent out earlier this year. No publisher offered an advance against it, mainly because they felt it was too niche. I liked...

This is the THIRD part of the first chapter of a book proposal I sent out earlier this year. No publisher offered an advance against it, mainly because they felt it was too niche. I liked it,...