Kim Pallister is Director of Content for Intel's Larrabee project. When not prepping the world for super-cool hardware, he blogs at www.kimpallister.com. He's written for various publications including Gamasutra and the Game Programming Gems series. Kim's been around the game industry for fifteen years at companies like Intel, Microsoft and Matrox.
Posted by Kim Pallister on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:44:00 EDT in
The hype around the different motion controllers announced at E3 overshadowed what will likely turn out to be the most significant announcement at E3: The integration of social network services like Facebook and Twitter.
Posted by Kim Pallister on Wed, 20 May 2009 03:05:00 EDT in
Analysts seem skeptical of Walmart's testing of the used-game waters. Does anyone really believe that the poster-child of retail efficiency-improvement won't eventually get it right?
Posted by Kim Pallister on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:19:00 EST in
Looking at implications of Best Buy, Toys R Us and Amazon jumping into the used-game business. Rather than the spread of a cancer, maybe competition is a good thing?
@Russ: Agreed. DMCA takedown notices as tactic to overwhelm smaller competitor is quite worrisome. Not sure it's what's happening in this case, but it certainly skirts it.
@Tim:Have you ever seen Steam run advertising for their games outside of the Steam interface itself Not sure about Steam, but for casual game portals or things like the Xbox dash, placement on the interface/website is VERY important. Even within the portal, placement matters a great deal.
It's a healthy discussion for the development community to have. Randy confuses two issues though: Potential conflict of interest between Valve's Steam business and their 1st party content and concerns around digital digital distribution converging on a monopoly. The former of these is potentially an issue, but no more so ...
These numbers are atypical for the crowded iPhone app market Yes, but are they atypical because the games are exceptional, or because people have perhaps been looking at the wrong business model PC casual games have long tapped into both download sales and ad revenue among other models . Maybe ...
Parts of the games market - casual in particular - have embraced the idea of multiple distribution channels and business models. It's not clear that it's always a clear waterfall model like Hollywood uses, where highest grossing goes first, then down from there. For example, a number of casual titles ...
@tadhgh: So not just a silver disc in a box. A golden disc in a velvet lined Tiffany's-esque box We already have that. An embossed metal tin instead of cardboard box, a detailed instruction book or comic instead of a paper leaflet, etc. And a portion of the market already ...
