Electronic Arts,  the behemoth console game developer has acquired PopCap for . You might wonder why this is a big deal. Simple. This is a sign of the change that is currently happening in the console gaming space.  Console gaming I believe will encompass handheld devices ( cell phones and tablets), which will compliment the current console gaming ecosystem. “EA and PopCap are a compelling combination,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello. “PopCap’s great studio talent and powerful IP add to EA’s momentum and accelerate our drive towards a $1 billion digital business. EA’s global studio and...

We live in a fast paced world and if you don’t adapt to the changes it brings, then you get left behind. New products are always on the horizon to replace existing products that are no longer exciting. Nintendo has unveiled their latest challenger, the Nintendo U in the console gaming battle against Apple,Sony and Microsoft. Apple is included in this space as handheld gaming on their handheld devices is slowly eroding market share from the big three. According to Nintendo, this is a new paradigm for video games and home entertainment. The Wii U is a new console with many facets. It includes a...

Sony has had a tough 3 weeks. It started with an outage to their PlayStation Network (PSN) which has escalated to one of the biggest network compromises in recent history.  I however believe that Sony should have done some things differently, but hindsight is an exact science which makes people seem smart: They should have played their cards more honestly with their users. The scale of the disaster was grossly understated, which is doing them no favors at the moment. Companies should have learnt by now that if you mess up, you come clean instead of telling a half true story. I get the idea that Sony...

Last week Activision-Blizzard shocked the entire gaming world by ending the Guitar Hero franchise. The company blamed sluggish sales and excessive music licence costs but I think there are larger issues. Activision-Blizzard is arguably the world’s biggest gaming company but they have had some products that have not lived up to the marketing hype surrounding them. Secondly with regards to the Guitar Hero franchise, the biggest problem is that the developers overdid the amount of products. There were far too many peripherals needed to enjoy the game. In the space of 6 years, Guitar Hero has gone from...

Can you remember how full of pixels PC games were in 90s? There was almost no serious graphic development done and the games had very simple graphics. My love affair with motorsport based games started with Test Drive. I remember having to take the floppy disks out and replacing it with another one in order to continue playing the game. It was hours full of fun and frustration. Old school gaming was totally different from console gaming of today. Fast forward 20 years and video games have evolved into life like reproductions of our lives. The amount of detail which are now found in video games are...