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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: 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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Comment In: Take-Two's big franchise focus paying off [News - 05/13/2013 - 04:40]
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This is what I 'm ... This is what I 'm wondering, I wish someone would tell me. r n r nTomb Raider did poorly because it sold 3 million copies at launch That 's over a hundred million dollars in money directly to the publisher, AFTER all the production and transportation and retail cuts are ... |
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Comment In: EA inks exclusive deal to develop 'core' Star Wars video games [News - 05/06/2013 - 04:18]
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Like they could be any ... Like they could be any worse than the last decade of Star Wars games... |
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Comment In: Skyrim's Modular Approach to Level Design [Blog - 05/01/2013 - 09:15]
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Read this piece on his ... Read this piece on his original blog, I think it 's a great demonstration of how such a relatively small team can build such huge games, and yet shows some of Bethesda 's weakest point in their games and demonstrates why they are there. r n r nNot being able ... |
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