Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry

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Before I make predictions on the new year, I’ll take a look at how I did on my predictions last year, with letter grades on them. In a separate post, I’ll let fly the predictions for 2013. If you have …

12. Somebody will get hacked. “With embarrassing security breaches all over the place, game companies can expect more hacker attacks in 2012. The PlayStation Network suffered the ultimate embarrassment as it went down for six weeks after being hacked. Valve, Square Enix, and many others suffered the same indignity. It’s good to be prepared. Online game sites and companies that use virtual currency have a lot at stake.”
A variety of firms were hacked, including Zynga, NCsoft, Gamigo, and others.
Letter grade: A

LOL.

As for HTML 5, that interests me as one of the main reasons why Glitch closed down was that it was coded in Flash and had neither the subscriber base nor the base required to be viable in the long run.