I like the railroad-metaphor too. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony know they are in the Enternainment Business. Sony even so much, that they forgot to tell their kids 'PS3 is a video game console, not just a BlueRay-Player, a Home-Entertainment-System, etc... Video games compete with the most valuable human ressource: their ...
@Lee I would argue these moments in games are not predictable because every child is different and you have no 'higher power' aka Dungeon Master aka parent that can tell the child: Here, little one, this is an important moment in the game and your life...now, you have learned a ...
Sorry I don't see such sublime 'types' of achievements. Maybe your are caught in your own gamer-juice Achievements are IMO just the ordinary 'cookies' developers give the players since the first games. There's nothing 'semantic' or 'theoretical' about it. You do this - you get that. Old game within games ...
From a consumer point of view this is rather good news. Resisting the quick release and focusing as the article mentions on the non-GTA franchises makes a lot of sense. They are of course betting again and the risks are high. Having four teams working on a single game cannot ...
Video Game Revenue for Germany in 2008 968 Million US source: gfk.com The sales in 2009 are still good/excellent, I guess, that's why nobody is paying attention to it, plus the 'issue' is affecting only a small part of overall business, of course. What is going to be more expensive ...
greek techne includes craftmanship and art as in art of design and you can read into it The Art of Computer Programming as I wish to do. Who wants to fight with Knuth, do you What I don't grasp is why waste your and others time with this - again ...
Ken, :- I have no opinion on Dave personally, as I have never met or worked with him and I am not one of his fanboy internet- we-all-can-make-a-game-together-kids -friends - I was just in a hawkish mood to throw in some arguments, I thought were valid. That's all. - Alex
I am truly sorry for being so late Michael and Rodain. I should check my wannabe-blog here more often You all can email me anytime - I am happy to share what I know buckybit at gmail.com . It's a big election year and video game violence thanks to recent ...
Every study that indicates an increase of female gamers on consoles is huge news. The majority of female gamers so far were playing web-games, hand-held console/phone-games. On PC, the vast majority plays The Sims and or WoW. If they make the 'jump' to the 'big consoles', then somebody is doing ...
Let's hope he gives his keynote in vulgar latin to show off that he's geekier than any other nerd in that room on September 4th. Ron Gilbert duo cu brute aliquam definiebas... haha... twitter @buckybit
