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  • Why am I so lucky?

    Mark Suster, one of my favourite VC bloggers, wrote a post entitled “Why am I so lucky?” In it, he says that if some unexpected luck comes your way, be sceptical. Not distrusting, just sceptical. So if...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Nintendo’s problem with the WiiU is all about branding

    Ben Cousins of DeNA pointed me to this Reddit thread about why the WiiU is struggling, written by someone who works in video games retail. “Nintendo went out of their way to remove their name from the...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Angry Birds are Go! A great start for Rovio’s first AB F2P foray

    I’ve been watching the launch of Angry Birds Go! closely, not least because I have been consulting on it since early this year. The initial results are promising: #2 on the top free chart and #20 on...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Has GTA stumbled upon the perfect mix of pay-upfront and F2P mechanics?

    Grand Theft Auto V is a success. A metacritic of 98, the second highest of all time. S1 billion in sales in the first three days. Twenty-nine million copies sold in to retail within the first six...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • “Don’t just buy a new video game, make one!” says Obama

    It’s not often that one of the most powerful people in the world encourages young people to make videogames. That’s exactly what President Obama did this week as he exhorted young Americans to learn to code, to...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • The future of television: one big screen, lots of little screens

    XKCD today ran a comic entitled “I don’t own a TV”. The comic implies that we have passed the peak moment where it is cool to say that you don’t own a TV. I think xkcd may...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • The end of skinner boxes

    There will always be operant conditioning driven games that will work. Ultimately, if it is going to be sustainable, developers need to look at increasing the game experience in three different areas.

    • Posted 11 years ago
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