Archive for October, 2005

Keeping the UK in the game

Monday, October 10th, 2005

TIGA (TIGA) are hosting a day-long seminar in Leeds on wednesday entitled ‘Strategies for the 3rd Generation – How to keep the UK the place to make games in Europe.’
The guardian last week reported on the story, with Keith Stuart writing“I can’t help but notice that our ambitions have been scaled down somewhat [...]

Escapist: Advertising to support content

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

What is it about the digital medium that people expect web content to be free? I mean, we’re totally okay paging through magazines half-full of ads, but when that content is translated to bits and bytes, those ads have to go?
Apparently, that’s what Brant over at Control+V seems to think about The Escapist’s new ad [...]

Why preview when you can review

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Premature Articulation
Early promises, long regrets
The arrival of the holidays means a huge spate of new releases, some of which we’ve been following for years. For consumers, it also means a huge spate [...]