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Why another game industry crash could set companies straight

One community writer's vision of the future involves big companies starting over and smaller developers reaping the benefits.

Game journalism and lack of integrity

Game Journalism is in a sorry state but recently the issue is that it's becoming much more blatant though the issue has been long running.

Game journalism and lack of integrity

There has been a considerable amount of discussion currently about game journalism, ranging from the debate about the representatives in the field actively pursuing freebies, how objective they must be, their attitudes and demeanour towards various fields, and the list …

Dislike SOPA/PIPA? Then help to hit it where it hurts.

No funny comments, no gags, no visuals today people. This is too serious.

I'm not one to mince words, so I won't. There is a pair of bills working their way through the United States Congress. One is called the …

AAA Games and Other Buzzwords

I've been following this industry for some time in a variety of fashions, as a gamer mainly, as a retail peon who specialized in game sales, and as a freelance writer (okay, that's exclusively her on BitMob, but I digress) …

The Cataclysm comes, or is it already here?

So the Cataclysm is upon us. Well, those of us who play World of Warcraft at any rate, and based on the anticipation, it's going to be a massive seller. There is going to be an issue though, one I …

Bloated Budgets or Used-Game Stores: Finding the Real Culprit for Decreased Profitability

Lately, on GamePolitics and The Escapist, I've been reading about how video-game publishers have jumped from blaming piracy as the sole cause for declining sales to a new target — namely, used-game sales. GameStop seems to be the name that …

The Spike VGA show, my honest opinion.

I was going to post this as a reply to Fozzy Boudaz’s Do we really need the Video Game Awards? post, but I figured it might be a little long for a reply, so I’m doing my own post on …

Casuals vs Hardcores: An Observer’s perspective.

I see this every day, Almost as much as as I see the whole Republican vs. Democrat rage fest (which as far as I’m considered, has no place in this article, so that’s the last you’ll hear about me on …

A Gamer’s Opinion on Game Publishers

So this stems from an article that Dan “Shoe” Hsu posted on August 25, 2009 as a copy from the Sore Thumbs blog that he used to co run. The title of it is “A Game Publisher on Gaming Journalism”, …