Q&A: Sharendipity President Greg Tracy discusses casual gaming and competition with EA (1)
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One of the fastest-growing segments of the gaming industry is casual gaming. Such games appeal to fans wanting mobile and social network-enabled gaming experiences, as well as others looking for a less time-consuming or simpler platform. Wisconsin-based Sharendipity is hoping to grab a piece of the casual gaming pie, with a platform designed not just for casual gamers, but also for those who want to build and customize their gaming experience using reusable components. Sharendipity ...
Real World of Warcraft: Is Offline Part of the Plan? - GigaOM (2)
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Dense games are fun games. Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game developers give solo players things to do, but for a game to really succeed players need people to play with. If player density isn’t high enough, you have to condense things, as once-great FPS/MMO Planetside did earlier this year. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft is a juggernaut with 10 million players scattered across hundreds of servers — 226 copies of Azeroth in the U.S. alone — ...
Today at Boing Boing Gadgets (3)
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Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, we worshipped the Pantone Rubik's cube and welcomed guest reviewer Alan Graham of Treehugger, who took a look at a new home music system from Sonos. John found a rainbow keyboard, a review of Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the rumored motherboard for the rumored Mac Mini II. He thought the Gameboy theme for iPhone was fantastic, and 3-inch figurine speakers, too. He liked liquid bookmarks, saw an icky transparent ...
Wii Fit On Track to Outsell Grand Theft Auto IV (2)
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Back in May, a writer for an enthusiast game site wanted to interview me about the impending launch of Wii Fit. Since then, I haven't forgotten one of the questions he asked, and how it was phrased: Think it'll outsell GTA IV(HAHA)? Ha ha! As if that were at all possible! Oh wait: Last week, Wagner James Au pointed out that if Wii Fitkeeps selling, and of course it will, it'll outpace Grand Theft Auto ...
The New Rules of Marketing & PR - David Meerman Scott Live a (2)
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If you're reading this blog, and haven't yet read David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR, go out right now and get his book. When we first came upon his book, about a year into HubSpot's life, we called him up and said, we started a company based on your book. That initiated a wonderful, long-lasting relationship with David, which most recently resulted in him speaking at the Inbound Marketing Summit. This ...
Free Games In a Troubled Economy (1)
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The U.S. economy hasn't exactly been operating at peak efficiency lately, and even the traditionally recession-proof video game industry has felt the repercussions. Yet for the largest developers, business -- and more importantly, business models -- remain largely unchanged: Toss a $60 title at the walls of retail, and announce a trilogy if it sticks. But elsewhere, models are changing. In a chat with the folks responsible for Sins of a Solar Empire, we discussed ...
NeoEdge Debuts Overlay Ads for Casual Online Games (2)
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Casual gaming on the Web has grown over the past year or so to become a fairly substantial revenue generator. Of course, 2007 figures pegged the burgeoning online market at $2.25 billion to the Halo and WoW-enriched $20 billion for console and PC titles and the like. So, relatively speaking, online games rank somewhat on the small side. But entirely Web-based creations do appear to be worthwhile pursuits all the same. Billions of dollars are ...
Photo Hunter Moves From Your Local Bar to the iPhone (3)
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So you’re at a bar, and after some greetings and social updates are passed around, you and some friends decide to strike up a game of Photo Hunt. The idea is to find differences between similar looking images. If that’s your idea of a fun outing, you may be glad to know that anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch in hand can now partake in that same contest with a little application called Photo ...
