Blog articles from 05/2008

Now it’s official. Microsoft withdrew its bid for Yahoo after a sweetened deal fell apart over the weekend. This morning, Yahoo’s share price tanked as expected. Is it game over? No. This is just the end of the first episode of the four-way judo I mentioned in my blog about three month ago. Already analysts and tech pundits are updating their scorecards of this game and debating whether Jerry Yang has made his biggest mistake of his life. So what? After three months of...

Depending on the news source, Grand Theft Auto IV is either the greatest thing to ever happen to gaming, or the surest sign yet that the world is already doomed. The reality is something in between: GTA is entertainment software that provides a lot of enjoyable gameplay and will hopefully make players think about the world we all live in. It will also help move a lot of game consoles for Microsoft and Sony ; for a long time to come. First of all, GTA is a game for people who...