Last time I talked about the history of the video game industry; how we got from coin-operated games to home consoles, and from open format consoles to proprietary ones, and how — and why — console makers keep control over the speed at which games are released on their consoles. We also talked about how…
I had a huge three-page-long essay here a few minutes ago, but I’ve changed my mind about posting it. Instead, I’m just going to make a prediction. Please feel free to ignore this post entirely. It’s just that the last time I made a prediction, it was in a web forum post on TIGSource, and…
For a few months, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around overarching trends in video game development, and fit them together with what’s going on right now; perhaps to provide a bit of insight into.. well.. into whatever’s about to happen next. I want to start with some big-picture background on the industry. Many…