Rob Fahey (Page 9)

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Fortnite is a masterclass in flexibility | Opinion

Epic's battle royale is a cultural phenomenon due to a will to challenge fundamental ideas about what a game is and what its players want to experience

June 19, 2020 Rob Fahey

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PlayStation 5's reveal was all about continuity | Opinion

Laser-focused on game announcements, Sony's unveiling was an hour-long promise to maintain the software strategy that has driven the PS4's success

June 12, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Gaming's lost boys embrace their inner censor | Opinion

The Last of Us 2 attracts reactionary fury for depicting diversity -- and the erstwhile free speech warriors now find themselves cheering for government censorship

May 29, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Don't expect huge change in the post-COVID industry | Opinion

Expectations of radical change in the wake of the pandemic are overblown -- in-person working will remain the default paradigm

May 22, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Sony's PS5 reveal will be all about the software | Opinion

The slow drip of PS5 information belies how much technical detail we already know -- the real “unveiling” will likely be of a software slate

May 15, 2020 Rob Fahey

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VR could seize its moment -- if the big players would cooperate | Opinion

VR has an opportunity to break out, but the mess of competing standards is holding back the whole sector

May 8, 2020 Rob Fahey

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How big is too big for a popular game? | Opinion

Mike Morhaime's comments on the trade-off between accessibility and engagement suggest that we don't have to accept constant user churn

May 1, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Epic's crusade against 30% takes a tumble | Opinion

Fortnite finally comes to the Google Play store, marking a significant setback for Epic Games' quest to reduce the industry standard revenue share

April 24, 2020 Rob Fahey

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PlayStation's low-key PC experiment | Opinion

Rumours of more PS4 exclusive titles following Horizon: Zero Dawn to PC have been squashed, but is that the end of Sony's multiplatform strategy?

April 17, 2020 Rob Fahey

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The industry mines for '90s nostalgia | Opinion

Between Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy 7, we're playing like it's 1999 -- but few other PlayStation-era titles justify this high-budget treatment

April 10, 2020 Rob Fahey

Opinion

Quarantine questions for the streaming future | Opinion

The games industry has pinned its future to fast broadband infrastructure -- but as the world self-isolates, the risks of those choices become clear

April 3, 2020 Rob Fahey

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All hail Nintendo's animal overlords | Opinion

Animal Crossing looks set to be one of the year's biggest games -- we might reflect on what it says about the appetite for different kinds of escapism

March 27, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Koei Tecmo found global success by focusing on its Japanese identity

CEO Hisashi Koinuma on being trusted with big IPs, making an asset of the firm's Asian identity, and its goal of making a 5m-selling original IP

March 25, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Sony and Microsoft are playing different card games | Opinion

Sony and Microsoft's next-gen communications strategies tell us almost as much as the tech specs themselves

March 20, 2020 Rob Fahey

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A year without E3 is a chance to take stock | Opinion

The ESA's show has failed to articulate what function it will serve to the modern industry -- this year's cancellation will force that discussion to happen

March 13, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Learning the lessons of the PlayStation 2 | Opinion

Twenty years after it arrived in Japan, the most successful console of all time still has lessons that are relevant to the industry today

March 6, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Xbox Series X gets its first great soundbite | Opinion

Never mind the teraflops -- Microsoft's pledge that it won't make consumers re-buy their games on new hardware is a powerful differentiator for Xbox

Feb. 28, 2020 Rob Fahey

News

COVID-19 looms over planning for next-gen launches | Opinion

The epidemic threatens to shut down supply chains the entire games industry relies on -- and even push new console launches into next year

Feb. 21, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Anthem gets a rare second chance | Opinion

Most games that fail at launch are quickly passed over -- but Bioware's Anthem is getting a rare and expensive second chance at success

Feb. 14, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Who are Microsoft's "real" competitors? | Opinion

Google and Amazon being the “real” competition for Xbox reveals the tricky balancing act that Microsoft's games team now faces

Feb. 7, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Can Alyx pull VR out of its niche? | Opinion

Half-Life: Alyx is driving headset sales before it's even released -- but it's going to take a lot more to make VR into a viable market for AAA games

Jan. 31, 2020 Rob Fahey

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The Witcher heralds an era of game IPs on TV | Opinion

As media giants prepare to do battle over streaming, well-known IPs are a potent weapon -- and videogames remain the last great untapped source

Jan. 24, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Microsoft goes all-in on the 'evergreen platform'

Bowing out of launch exclusives for Xbox Series X means Microsoft is now fully committed to the bold vision it's talked about for so many years

Jan. 17, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Is Switch Pro the right move for Nintendo?

A possible hardware update in 2020 has set the rumour mill turning - but where Switch Lite solved a problem, a Pro model seems less well-defined

Jan. 10, 2020 Rob Fahey

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Console makers lay out their 2020 visions | Opinion

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all have very different ideas of where the console market is going in 2020 and beyond - and it's even possible that they're all correct

Dec. 20, 2019 Rob Fahey