Category: Game industry

The underdog: Frontlines Fuel of War

12 September, 2007 (16:54) | Game industry | No comments

A few months ago I wrote about the big upcoming games in the last quarter of 2007. I totally missed one big upcoming game, Frontlines: Fuel of War, by THQ. This game will be a Battlefield 2 killer. The gameplay is…

Back from NY, new business to look forward to

10 September, 2007 (12:30) | Business as usual, Game industry | No comments

Last week I had the privilege to meet with the guys from one of the hottest game development studios, and it was great. Our company will have to prepare for a new exciting project for multiple locations all over Europe. We’re looking…

Hosting XBOX360 and PS3 gameservers

18 August, 2007 (17:18) | Game industry, Hosting industry | No comments

With the growing console market, hosting console gameservers is a very wise decision considering the number of console gamers is growing faster than pc-gamers and the gameserver hosting is a b2b transaction instead of b2c. Console gamers pay for their…

Microsoft and pc gaming (2)

12 August, 2007 (14:03) | Business as usual, Game industry | No comments

Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft and pc gaming. Today I read news article on Slashdot about DirectX 10.1. This new version of DirectX 10 will add XAudio2 to the pc. XAudio2 is used on the XBOX 360 for sound processing…

Microsoft and pc gaming

11 August, 2007 (14:57) | Business as usual, Game industry | 1 comment

Microsoft used to publish nice PC games like Age of Empires. Over the last years Microsoft failed to publish any big pc game. The strategy to focus on the console gaming, very profitable in theory, has affected the time and effort…

Gamehosting in 2012

11 August, 2007 (14:13) | Game industry | No comments

In five years, gaming will be:

  • Cross-platform enabled: play on your pc against xbox4 and playstation 5 gamers
  • Integrated voice- and videochat in multiplayer games
  • All games will feature online rankings to boost multiplayer gameplay
  • Multi-core enabled: no more single core applications! More power for…