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Price Pressures
Retailers and publishers murmur about price rises on the horizon. This is suicidal talk, if consumer trends hold true
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Disorderly Queue
Queues and overcrowded servers are no way to welcome new customers to your game
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Bodies In Motion
New controllers are the talk of the show at TGS - with the divide between Sony and Microsoft becoming increasingly clear
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Revisiting the MMO
Paul Mayze, COO of Monumental Games, argues the benefits UGC and in-game ads to the development of an MMO
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Untethered Melodies
Robert Kotick rattles Sony and Microsoft's cages again - but is this just chest-beating from the world's top publisher?
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Definition Transition
The HD transition is still a work in progress - and it's happening more slowly than expected
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The Real Cataclysm
Competitors hoping for WoW to decline should be careful what they wish for
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End of the Land Grab
The battle for market share at any cost is overshadowed by cold, hard, financial reality
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Your Ideas Don't Matter… Much
Jason Della Rocca ponders the subject of pitches - and how marketing and business models need consideration
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Pricing On Demand
If digital distribution is going to work, publishers need to snap out of the pricing fantasy
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A Tale of Two Publishers
EA and Activision's battle for revenue supremacy is less interesting than their divergent strategies.
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Flash in the Pan
The excitement around netbooks needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt
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Community Chest
Introversion offers insight into how its large fan base thrives under the development of Multiwinia and Darwinia+
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Price Warfare
Activision's move to £55 is bold, risky and unpopular - but it will probably work.
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Hitting the Brakes
The Wii's sales curve is evening off. Is this the end of Nintendo's total dominance?
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Depth Charges
3D display promises an exciting future, but the present is a little more sobering
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The Collectors
Ownership is a basic human desire - one which digital distribution advocates ignore at their peril
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Social Animals
Social networking promises huge changes to how we play games - just as soon as designers get their heads around it
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The Culture Question
The Digital Britain report proposes tax relief for "culturally British" games - but what does that mean?
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A Critical Eye
Metacritic has become the de facto measurement of quality, but bias and unprofessionalism are creeping in
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Lots of Talent and No Budget
Introversion's Byron Atkinson-Jones on marketing a game without money in the bank
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Peripheral Vision
E3 is all about accessories this year - but it takes more than clever toys to drive console sales.