Posts tagged with Games
Games as a Service
MMORPGs introduced the concept of games as a service almost two decades ago. It was and remains a straight-forward idea: pay $x/month, and we'll run the servers that enable the online game to function as well…
Peak Mobile Gaming
It's been a couple of eventful weeks for mobile gaming, with some notable releases and twists and turns. In order of completely subjective industry importance: * Threes! was released in the App Store. A well-polished, simple but addictive…
Exemplary Touch Gaming
Gaming on phones and tablets have certainly come a long way from that poker game that Apple released with the first App Store. There is, if not a particularly healthy ecosystem of games, at least a flood of them of…
A Book on a Video Game
There aren't that many books on video games; I've probably read most of them. For a medium and industry that pulls in almost $100 billion, it's still seen as little more than a casual…
Game Consoles and their Bet on Software
It's only a matter of days till the 8th generation of video game consoles launch in the US. Sony and Microsoft are still making the wager that, six years after the modern smartphone has been introduced, a dedicated…
What Happened to Final Fantasy?!
This generation of consoles has not been kind to Japanese game developers. The quality of games from "western" game developers has leaped ahead in terms of innovative systems, advanced technology and worldwide appeal; while Japanese quirkiness has proven…
