This year, numerous retailers (GameStop (GamesIndustry.biz sucks) , HMV (GamesIndustry.biz sucks) ) have been whinging and crying that they can no longer make huge profits out of selling computer games. Publishers have often jumped on the same bandwagon, but tended to blame retailers for selling 2nd-hand games (oh my! shock! […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
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If a picture paints a thousand words, then a 3D engine wipes-away 900. Even a 3D engine with “a great game” and “good level-designers” still only manages five hundred. It’s taken me a long time to realise this, but … games published today often have inferior visual Art to games […]
Google has just announced that they’re deleting all web content (pages, files, downloads) from Google Groups, leaving only the mailing lists. (Incidentally, they failed to inform the group-admins / owners that they’re doing this – which is mind-blowingly stupid when you think about it) Just to be clear, *without* the […]
LinkedIn is running a promotion right now to get more people using their advertising platform. It’s nicely conceived – two clicks (the first to login), and I was straight into writing an advert. Brilliant! The advert-writing was simple, easy to understand, and fit within the top 500 pixels of the […]
A couple of years ago, someone setup this neat, handy, site: http://www.flavorstudios.com/iphone-icon-generator (DON’T USE THIS) …but their web skills were poor, and their script kept crashing, and they couldn’t be bothered either to fix it or to document the bugs. Or even to just … you know … release it […]
iPhone app seeks to prevent taxi drivers from ripping-off their passengers “there has even been a case of a driver who had wired up the seats so he could deliver an electric shock to any troublesome passengers.”
The Wicks Group is a private-equity firm routinely buying and selling companies for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s their web page: Yes, really. At first I thought it was some small spam-using firm with crappy webskills, that had managed to buy the domain name of a bigger […]
Apple runs a conference each year (“WWDC”) where they provide documentation and material that developers MUST use – but isn’t available elsewhere. That’s OK – they record it all, and the slides, and make it available free afterwards. Except … You can’t download it from the web, you can only […]
After 2 years, Apple finally shares the list of reasons that they reject apps (approximately 100 or so – it’s not complete, but it’s close) This is big news – finally, professionals can act professionally and do their own QA before submitting apps, rather than just wishing and praying. (http://apprejections.com/index.php/post/264)
When I log into LinkedIn, I now receive 3 pages of spam. That spam is “every tweet by every person I’ve ever met”. Somewhere, buried inside the avalanche of spam, are a few genuine LinkedIn messages. e.g. today I saw that a friend had moved to a new company – […]
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll have read my thoughts on the Science part of Marketing, and how much money this makes you. As I explained recently to an Accountant, we don’t have a “business plan” for my current company, we only have a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet […]
