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Core is to casual games as cinema is to TV
Casualgaming.biz reports a senior Electronic Arts executive saying that the relationship between casual games and core games is akin to that between TV and cinema. Ben Cousins, Executive Producer of Battlefield Heroes (a game which is an...
- Posted 16 years ago
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Plagiarism: is Britain in the grip of a copying epidemic?
Britain has long been hailed as a creative powerhouse. Not just in games, but in all media, politicians routinely line up to praise the unique British talent for punching above our weight. Yet in the past week,...
- Posted 16 years ago
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Casual games cost only $25,000
Casualgaming.biz reports two leading casual games sites saying that all it takes to build a casual game is $25,000. Geoff Iddison, CEO of Jagex which owns MMO Runescape and casual gaming site FunOrb, says they can add...
- Posted 16 years ago
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Big cash for Bigpoint
The FT reported yesterday that Bigpoint has been acquired in a transaction valued at €70 million. (As an aside, that’s $110 million, which shows how weak the dollar is against the euro at the moment – not...
- Posted 16 years ago
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All the good stuff rises to the top
An article of mine on what 2008 holds for Sony is currently on the homepage of www.helium.com. Helium is a great concept, but I feel it is flawed.
- Posted 17 years ago
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$140 CPM for ad-sponsored games. That’s pretty aggressive.
Wild Tangent CEO Alex St. John declared at a recent conference that in-game advertising is dead. Long live in-game advertising.
- Posted 17 years ago
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Offroad Velociraptor Safari – is this the future of games?
I’ve spent the weekend playing Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. It’s a little like the SCi classic Carmageddon: you drive a fully-destroyable 4×4 around a 3D world, performing stunts, running over dinosaurs and collecting points. The ostensible purpose is...
- Posted 17 years ago