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"NPD’s study “Entertainment Trends In America” said that 63 percent of Americans have played a game in the last six months. Just 53 percent have gone out to see a movie during the same time period."
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"So many of our grandparents were racist, and some of our parents are homophobes. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by?" – this has been a fantastic conversation starter over the last week or so.
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As someone said last night: Trent 'gets it'
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"But there are major differences between the media, ones that we cannot ignore. Following big screen examples helped us make our baby steps, but ultimately it's a dead end, because it turns good games into bad movies."
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99c short story
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Gosh, this is like being hit in the face with a spadeful of memories.
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Good place to start.
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My completely uninformed, gut feel opinion is that more RAM would make more of a user experience difference on the iPhone than a faster CPU. But, if we're getting both anyway, moot point.
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6.5m downloads, and active user base is finally going up, not just churning.
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Failed futures
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Gosh. I could write a lot about this.
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Over 25? Time to grow up. You're an adult now.
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We're fucked, and what's worse is that it feels like the big European media companies are making sure we stay fucked.
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Well done to Pan for getting this sorted out.
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These proposed 2012 Olympics posters are absolutely gorgeous – but somehow I have a sinking feeling we won't get to see them in real life because they're not onbrand enough.
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Good on them.
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Hm. I bet we could do something with this.
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"King’s LinkedIn profile describes 4mm as a “web-based service provider of digital entertainment across a digital distribution delivery platform.” He said the company intends on targeting “multiple age demographics.” – social gaming, eh?
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Not sure if this was in the print mag or not, but surely a sign of cross-platform narrative making a bit more of a creep over into mainstream
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Price comparison site for videogames. Yay.
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This is going to be useful. Stack Overflow for tech ops.
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"In the next 10 years, we're going to see all the forms of entertainment—film, television, video, games, and print—melding into a single-platform "story engine." The Model T of this new platform is the PS3." – Yes, but also no.
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Awesome. No other words.
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Fantastic, and unfortunately, utterly illegal.
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Oh. My. God.
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"The reading order for the Hyperion series is “Read Hyperion and then stop.”" – I *love* Hyperion
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This makes me sick. I expect Cait and Alice to go spare and flip out.
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Simon Carless on how to do developer PR
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Seriously? Project Angel?
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Poke bring back Spot the Bull
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The book of the game (of the film of the fame of the book)
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Very nice
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Live = $$$
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Doesn't the Alert Vulcan site look terrible? Not that that kind of matters, because it's the experience, but, well…
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"Rushkoff, an award-winning author on new media and popular culture known for titles including Cyberia, Media Virus, and Coercion, will work with the Smoking Gun team on "story narratives across a range of media formats that can feed off one another and exist concurrently," according to the studio." – everyone's doing it now!
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OK, so maybe Margaret wins this time.
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Everything becomes a platform.
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How Gaming AI is different from, well, real AI, in the same way that Cartoon Physics is harder, and more fun, than Real Physics
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Now *that* is play
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You can tell The Incredibles is a product of absolute, unadorned love.
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"If you are a recent college graduate who is nervous about his or her career–but you also feel unprepared to start a business–ask yourself this: What is the probability that someone in their 20s will know, with absolute certainty, which job or career will make them happy? Trying to hold onto a job early in your career is not necessarily the smart move." – hell, what I'm doing now feels like it hadn't even been invented when I was at college
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Carmack really is a coding god. Required reading.
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TFL become sole sponsors of Sofia's Diary, in what's probably going to be an effective awareness campaign for them.
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"To build the show beyond a traditional TV format, viewers will be given the chance to interact through blogs, uploading track reviews, sharing music news and also be given the chance to appear on the show." – that's not building it much beyond the traditional TV format, though. Definitely not enough.
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Really, though, this is just saying: slow down, avoid distractions.
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You know, he's not wrong…
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Amen.
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Kids bullying online
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Ad agency rewards start reflecting zeigeist: "Submissions can be singular or multiple, offline and/or online, multi-platform interactive experiences and all cross media branded entertainment. May include but not limited to; Television, Print, Outdoor, Websites, Blogs, Offline/Online Games, Ambient, Live Events, Email, Podcast, Social Network Communities, Mobile, Direct, Alternate Reality Games (ARG), Augmented Reality (AG). "
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An absolutely fantastic review of how terrible the original Star Wars IV script was
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I wish I Got Excited and Made Things
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Awesome. So I don't need a Sky+ box and a 360, I can just have the 360 do the whole thing. Possibly. And it would have (I hope?) a better interface than Sky's current non Sky-HD interface. Nice to see a different direction than a me-too PS3 PlayTV type box.
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"Yet, when we buy something for a very low price, we are conditioned to see it as expendable. What costs a dollar these days? Hardly anything. A cup of coffee. A pack of sticky notes. A Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. A lottery ticket. Stuff we use up and discard." – games aren't media
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Ben Rockwood on "cloud" "storage" and disambiguating the various services offered and the end users targeted. Useful for the recommendations alone.
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Easier than S3, at any rate. Via Ben Rockwood's blog
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Public services: should credit be one of them?
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