Do you live in San Francisco? Or, have you ever been there, for a conference, perhaps, or a holiday? (since the games industry’s biggest annual conference takes place in downtown SF, literally adjacent to and physically underneath the memorial) Have you been to the Martin Luther King memorial? No, not the famous one(s) elsewhere that [...]
1 Comment » Last week at the LOGIN conference I sat on a panel with three far more smart/successful/famous people than myself entitled “Online Games 2014: Twelve Spoilers for the Future” (I think I was there as “the argumentative one” ;)). The real value of the panel was the four of us arguing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussing each other’s predictions, and the [...]
Richard has often been accused of being “arrogant”, “insane”, and even, simply, “wrong” for his comments along the lines of: He hasn’t “played” an MMO in decades (possibly “ever”) … because he can’t stop himself from interpreting as he uses them Surprisingly many MMOs are just WoW by another name He only needs to play [...]
Moderator: Joe Ludwig (JL) Patricio Jutard (PJ), Three Melons Chris Dyl (CD), Turbine Rick Lambright (RL), Gazillion Mitch Ferguson (MF), Carbine Summary A lot of nice little anecdotes about MMO middleware experiences – but it would have been nicer to have had a lot more detail on them (not easy to do in panel format). [...]
Reviewing video games is hard. In some ways, it’s an impossible mission: a reviewer has too many conflicting interests: please the publishers or else be denied access to the materials they seek to review please their editor or else don’t get paid; but the editor’s primary source of capital is often advertising … from the [...]
I’ve been looking around the web and it seems no-one has any good, FREE stats on who the different iPhone developers are, and what they’re doing. So … I’ve made a 40-question survey (its all yes/no or multiple-choice-answer questions, hopefully it shouldnt take too long to fill out – sorry), and I’ll send the results [...]
