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The danger with writing about the daily(-ish) machinations of the game industry is that you risk being, well, a bit of a downer. Over the past couple of weeks Hit Points has discussed the downside of subscription services, bemoaned Stadia’s messy change of direction and Sony’s dismal
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Google’s endeavours to establish itself in the game industry remind me of my attempts to learn Japanese over the years. On paper, it really ought to work: I excelled at modern languages in my youth, am a reasonably quick study, and have plenty of motivation to learn. I love
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So, it is finally here, sort of but not really: the Nintendo Switch (OLED Model). Catchy! I’m sitting down to write this the morning after the unveiling of what, in the spirit of not-E3, must henceforth be known as the Switch not-Pro, and I am still quite cross with
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I’ve learned far more about games by talking to the people that make them than I ever have sat at home with a controller in my hands.
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It seems faintly ludicrous that the runaway market leader should be this inhospitable to so many developers.
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Big company gets bigger and is worth more money, and the already rich grow somehow richer still.
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When you hear a familiar voice in a game, it jars you — particularly when it’s one you associate with a disco-dancing unicorn.
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“I’ll wait for a sale” was a common refrain throughout the 2010s. Now we're going a step further: “I’ll wait til it’s free.”
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One of the few advantages of not-E3 is that this year I am not sat here the week after the show, back at my desk and miserable, willing the jetlag away and, in particular, struggling through the traditional post-show headcold. Lockdowns have changed the way we think about big crowds,
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Before we get into today’s edition of Hit Points, some brief housekeeping. With not-E3 done and dusted, I’m going to experiment with the format a bit, and drop down to three editions per week for a spell. There are a few reasons for this: we’re probably looking
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To Facebook, the web’s premier destination for ham-faced uncles and old school bullies who need somewhere to sell broken garden furniture and do racism. When Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg positioned VR as the social arena of the future, saying: “Mobile is the platform of today, and
