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Microsoft's big, data driven misstep |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:00 EDT in
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| The Xbox One has been shown, and Microsoft seems to have forgotten it plays games. |
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The swift, impending end of retail sales |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:37:00 EDT in
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| Digital sales are about to rule the roost, and quickly |
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Sales are slowing because games are getting worse |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:45:00 EDT in
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| There's a simple reason why game sales are in decline, there are fewer, and worse, games than their have been previously. |
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Since when are Executives supposed to design games? |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:58:00 EST in
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| Business executives have become increasingly intrusive into game design over the last generation. Ideally for everyone this should stop and even reverse course. |
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The end of consoles, and soon |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:09:00 EST in
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| Everyone's waiting, or searching, for the revolution. When will it come? |
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How to ruin your Game and the entire Gaming Industry |
| Posted by Johnathon Swift on Sun, 02 Dec 2012 05:12:00 EST in
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| Giving people what they want is ruining the gaming industry, and yet surely YOUR game that looks like all the others will be different! |
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Comment In: The Curiosity experiment, and the church of Peter Molyneux [News - 05/30/2013 - 04:00]
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I just absolutely love Molyneux, ... I just absolutely love Molyneux, and he gets so much hate for being excited and optimistic. Like why aren 't you a cynic like the rest of us, stop making like the world is a good place you ass is somehow a criticism. r n r nBut that 's just ... |
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Comment In: Party's almost over for GameStop's used games business [News - 05/28/2013 - 01:18]
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Because Microsoft doesn 't earn ... Because Microsoft doesn 't earn money from used games sales, it gets a cut off each new game sale but not used. It 's a game of chicken with Sony. If they both cut used games neither really suffers, in fact they both win more new games sales, more money ... |
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Comment In: Blizzard drastically reduces development team for 'Titan' [News - 05/28/2013 - 08:26]
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I.E. Crap, our game sucks ... I.E. Crap, our game sucks and MMO 's have an incredible failure rate in the market.... uhhh, build an entirely different game |
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Comment In: We're Indie, we like Microsoft. Too Controversial? [Blog - 05/23/2013 - 12:00]
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That narrative seems to stem ... That narrative seems to stem from Sony making their big announcement about allowing anyone to be registered to publish on the PS4, and Steam 's weird greenlight thing continuing. In comparison Microsoft said nothing, so the obvious narrative to latch onto was Microsoft not as good as others . Narratives ... |
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Comment In: Coding "To The Metal" is a dangerous ideal. [Blog - 05/22/2013 - 05:37]
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For extreme high performance programmers ... For extreme high performance programmers that know what their doing, low level coding is a godsend. It might not be an indie thing, but if you 're trying to get the absolute most out of a system when writing the next Crysis or Gears title, then low level access is ... |
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Comment In: All Your Nintendo Let's Plays Are Belong To Nintendo? [Blog - 05/17/2013 - 12:26]
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Nice overview I suspect mostly ... Nice overview I suspect mostly that there scenario in which Nintendo Let 's Play videos are simply going to disappear altogether is the most likely one. The mere threat of legal action is so fantastically expensive that it allows the view of such an end as likely. Though were it ... |
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