Now that we’ve become used to the concept of the franchise reboot, Ubisoft has thrown a curveball with what can best be described as a deboot.
There’s nothing more depressing than a game that sells well on the back of its subject matter rather than any intrinsic merit.
For a games industry expert, Trip Hawkins has had a bumpy career. He was one of Apple Computer’s first employees and one of the founders of Electronic Arts in 1982, before leaving in 1991 to initiate the ill-fated 3DO console, which eventually slipped into bankruptcy.
Suspicions that Nokia’s N-Gage ”game deck” was a Trojan horse designed to give the company a foothold in the games industry were confirmed when Nokia recently unveiled the N-Gage QD overseas, a major development of the N-Gage, just seven months after the launch of the original.