Microsoft’s struggles selling the Xbox in Japan are legendary, and here is the definitive account of its failure, at Eurogamer. The factors at play range from a poorly received introductory speech at the 2001 Tokyo Games Show by Bill Gates, to a lack of understand of and respect for complex Japanese
Major League Gaming CEO Sundance Giovanni revealed the scale of his ambitions to PC Gamer yesterday: “I see eSports rivaling the UFC within 5 years. There’s no reason that we can’t rival even the NFL eventually, we just need to continue to evolve.” That’s quite a claim, and of course businessmen ha
-Double Fine founder Tim Schafer. Psychonauts is more than seven years old. Double Fine regained exclusive publishing rights to their game last year after a revenue-sharing agreement with co-publisher Majesco expired.
The Ideas Channel dude – you know, the gingerbearded Seth Cohen type who talks really fast about culture – had an idea about videogames. It is: Super Mario Brothers is the world’s greatest piece of surrealist art. To summarize, because the visual elements of the Mario universe are as weird and appa
The big studio implosion of 2012 was unquestionably Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios, former employes of which are the defendant in an ugly lawsuit brought by the state of Rhode Island. 38’s failing was so spectacular, however, that you may have missed some of the other studio closings of 2012, which inc
One of the things you learn about books when you study literature in school is that analysis through the lens of authorial intention is generally a fool’s task; analysis is its own act of creation, not some disappasionate accounting of biographical clues. Remember Wilde in The Critic as Artist: To t
-Gears of War creator and ex-Epic Games design director Cliffy B to G4 yesterday. He goes on to compare himself to Spielberg post-ET. What will be B’s Color Purple, his Schindler’s List? The future awaits!
Yes, yes, we know the stereotypes: gamers are young white guys living in various lair-like setups featuring complicated chairs with speakers in them. While the rise of casual gaming and the proliferation of games for many different audiences has revealed this view as the relic it is, there is one se