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Reviewing My 2013 MMO Predictions: The Music Is About To Stop

Last year I made a number of predictions about the MMO market for 2013. Time to pay the piper… and unfortunately he collects with interest. Continue reading →

Run That Town: For The Masses

Run That Town has something to say about governments that it probably didn’t intend to say. Continue reading →

GTA: Courting Controversy, But Only The Right Kind

The GTA series has always courted controversy, but I think Rockstar backed off in one area it had the power to change. Continue reading →

OUYA: How Not To Communicate

Since its very successful Kickstarter, OUYA has done a great job making itself look terrible. Continue reading →

City of Heroes / Villains: An Addendum of Sorts

One of the major criticisms thrown against NCsoft’s handling of CoH/V’s closure was that they shut the game down quickly, with no real attempt to find a purchaser. However, that doesn’t appear to be quite true… Continue reading →

The Anita Sarkeesian Troll Bingo Card

It’s a game that no-one should play. Continue reading →

Kickstander: The Doom That Came To Kickstarter, And The Transference of Risk

Board game Kickstarter success The Doom That Came To Atlantic City raised nearly four times its financial goal, but has been cancelled after all the money was spent. It certainly seems that a lot of backers don’t recognise how crowdfunding transfers around the financial risk inherent with developing a game. Continue reading →