In an interview with Gamasutra, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says that working with small games and indies will be vital to the success of Vita. It's statements show how little Sony understand of the free-to-play revolution...

That was the question I was asked by The Wall Street Journal last week. I’m inclined to think that it is a speed bump, not a derailment. It is a real problem for Sony but it is...

Last week, I wrote that Sony didn't understand the threat that it faces. This week, I put the opposite case: that Sony's experiments and product launches shows that it understands the issues, and is making valiant attempts...

Satoru Iwata and Andrew House have recently talked about how changes in the games industry are a damaging to quality and threaten our industry. The problem is that they are cherry-picking their datapoints, and are missing the bigger...

Sony recently tried to break into the MMO genre on console with the high-profile launch of DC Universe Online. It’s an interesting experiment in making an MMO work on the console platform, and paves the way for...

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...

I’ve been very slow at reporting on job losses in the games industry for a while. That’s what happens when you get crazy busy working for clients, while also working on a very exciting secret project for...