Tuesday April 22, 2008
EU to Game Industry: Clean Up! by scottsh at 01:23 PM
Today the European Union's executive body elected not to impose new restrictions or penalties for offensive video games but instead decided to give the industry two years to clean itself up. There is an existing standard for rating games in...

Saturday April 19, 2008
Top Games of the last 12 months by scottsh at 06:55 PM
Next-Generation published a list of the top 100 selling games of the last 12 months. Of course, games that have been out longest are likely to be highest on the list, but I still found this interesting. Here are the...

Saturday October 13, 2007
Bioware / Pandemic sold to EA by scottsh at 10:00 AM
Thursday, Electronic Arts announced it was buying the holding company that owns Bioware and Pandemic from Evolution Partners (the company that bought both of them previously) for $855 million. EA's stock was up 5% on Friday as a result. While...

Tuesday November 14, 2006
Game stores - good or evil? by scottsh at 12:40 PM
I just read a great write-up on video game stores over at 1up.com and I feel compelled to add my commentary. Go ahead on over there and read it first, then come back. I'll wait....

Friday July 07, 2006
5 PC Game Companies and Their Demise... by Tim at 11:58 AM
Next Generation has an article up that discusses five game companies that I think most folks will recognize that are now gone. I find this article interesting mainly from the perspective that most of these companies built games I really...

Thursday April 13, 2006
World of Warcraft floats all boats? by scottsh at 07:30 PM
As for April 10th, Bethesda Softworks announced that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has shipped over 1.7 million copies. In fact, it was responsible for 13% of all PC game sales during its first week on the shelves. All I...

Saturday February 25, 2006
In-game ads? by scottsh at 09:44 AM
Midway Games announced that not only did it continue to lose money in its most recent quarter (to the tune of $38M) but that it has signed a deal with Double Fusion to offer in-game advertising for its games for...

Sunday January 29, 2006
Buy any in-game items lately? by scottsh at 08:56 PM
Have you ever purchased items in a computer or console game using real dollars? I personally haven't, although I have looked into it a few times. So far, I've never felt it was worth my money - but that may...

Wednesday January 18, 2006
2005 Game Sales by scottsh at 12:36 AM
Game sales for 2005 broke the record for highest revenue in a single year, growing 6% over 2004. $10.5 billion was spent on entertainment software for PCs, consoles, and handhelds. And while this is good news overall, what was interesting...

Monday January 02, 2006
Pandemic/BioWare to go public by scottsh at 12:45 PM
The combined entity that is Pandemic/BioWare (currently going by the name VG Holdings) plans to take their games to the street. Wall Street, that is. The game developers were brought together by venture capital firm Elevation Partners (formed by an...

Sunday November 20, 2005
Those Who Can't, Sue by JP at 10:09 AM
Seems Jack Thompson can't stand the heat of some negative user reviews of his new book on Amazon. In typical lawyer fashion, he threatens to sue Amazon if they don't remove them. Maybe Jack needs a cup of hot coffee?...