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entrepreneurship games industry

UK companies don’t suck, they just need tax breaks

According to Sefton Hill:

“You just think about quality developers like Bizarre Creations, Black Rock – people who are making really good games and going out of business. Those guys were so talented so how can that happen?

Well, obviously, it wasn’t anything to do with operational mis-management, poor commercial decisions, gambles that didn’t pay off, bad strategic decisions about partnerships/publishers/companies to sell themselves to, a global recession, failure to keep pace with changing trends in culture and audience, technology falling behind, etc.

No – it was the lack of tax breaks.

Obviously.

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fixing your desktop

Apple laptop overheats when running iOS 5 on iPad or iPhone Simulator

Here’s ANOTHER overheating bug in Apple’s OS X.

This time, it’s the BlueTooth simulator built-in to the iOS Simulator (used every day by iPhone and iPad developers). The iOS5 version of the simulator has this crazy BT demon (process “BTServer”) that will sometimes – for no apparent reason – take up 100% CPU usage and melt your machine.

Solution:

  1. Open terminal
  2. Type: sudo vi “/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator5.0.sdk/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.BTServer.plist”
    • NOTE: the inverted commas are required, it seems
  3. Enter your admin password for the machine (the file is locked to all except admin)
  4. Use vi to change the 8th line to: <true/>
    • NOTE: the line immediately above should be: <key>Disabled</key>
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amusing funny reputation systems security

DRM and the consumer

The mashup

(My new “preferred explanation of piracy + DRM”)

The original

(From Cyanide&Happiness webcomic, if you don’t know it already..)

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amusing

Thinking of moving from Game Design/Development … to Media/Marketing?

Here’s what you need to know about your new co-workers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJiC4EglCX0&feature=related