Change that tune | 10 Years Ago This Month
The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so entrenched in the now can learn from its past. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field's history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactly a decade ago.
If we're looking at the big news from July of 2013, I'm not sure it gets any bigger than Don Mattrick's shock departure from Microsoft after the disastrous reveal of the Xbox One and its planned digital restrictions. But checking the archives, that saga has been the column's lead story for three months running now, so let's give Microsoft a pass this month and take a stroll through the rest of the month's headlines.
"John Riccitiello slams 'opportunists' who just want to profit from games"
That was the headline for James Brightman's interview with John Riccitiello, the first chance we'd had to speak with him since he resigned as CEO of Electronic Arts because the company's digital turnaround was taking too long.
Temporarily free from the constraints of an employer, Riccitiello came out swinging over the state of the industry, so much so that we'll just excerpt a few paragraphs from the original article here to preserve context.
"Let's be realistic. I'm going to be cynical for a minute. I find this terribly hilarious — you talked about game companies, things you write about on the website, these game companies who are going to create the next generation of new ideas, they're all about fun etc. And they're working on a Puzzles and Dragons rip-off, except they're going to change one of
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