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More pics from PAX. Square Enix and random stuff. Some really cool indie games that I will talk about later in another post. Also, Red 5 is coming out with a persistant world FPS that looks bad ass.
Went to a Mariners game too, can’t be a nerd all long weekend!!
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Good night last night. Another good day at PAX tonight too.
Spent some time playing Killzone3 multiplayer, which looks tight. Epic Mickey is surprisingly good, I will be picking it up for my Wii when it comes out. Also, Goldeneye for Wii – its killer. No Zelda or the 3D DS here th0ugh, what is Nintendo thinking?
Kinect is pretty slick, going to try out Move tomorrow to compare.
Need to hit the Square Enix and EA booths as well.
Up to 11 t-shirts!!
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Wow. Spent half a day at PAX totally overwhelmed.
The show floor is huge, lots of flashy stuff everywhere. Played some new games, didnt really feel like spending time in line today but tomorrow we will. Got lots of swag tho, up to I think 7 tshirts already!.
Going to go to the Square Enix presentation tomorrow, but I also saw my buddies pointing at the Microsoft Kinect booth where some dude was playing a dancing game to Lady GaGa so I have a feeling I will be made to do some of that tomorrow. After many beers, I hope.
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Ubisoft Managing Director Alain Corre told GamesIndustry.biz in a recent interview that:
“The games that are not triple-A are not profitable anymore… To a certain extent it becomes less risky to invest more in a single game or franchise than spreading your investment between three or four games,”
Apparently, Corre goes on to explain that this has all changed in the last 18 months. Which is odd because I am certain Ubisoft has been milking it’s franchises for much longer than that.
Maybe their games would see better sales if they didn’t have that shitty DRM built in that forces you to be online all the time? What do you think about that Mr. Corre? I know that I am not willing purchase Assassins Creed or Splinter Cell or even any of your triple-A titles anymore.
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MS has put up the price of a year subscription to their online gaming service by 10bucks a year starting this November. I really don’t understand why MS even charges for their XBOX Live ‘service’. They are not hosting servers, all the data is carried by users’ ISPs… so why do they need more money? Server CPU, storage and bandwidth costs have all dropped, not increased. Shouldn’t this ‘service’ be getting cheaper? More »
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I will be attending PAX Prime this year and will be liveblogging the event. I plan on attending some of the presentations but will probably be spending most of my time on the show floor. Some of the presentations I am planning on going to are: Rooster Teeth, Bungie, 343 Studios, Squre Enix, Penny Arcade, and a few more.
I can’t wait. So stay tuned here for info and pictures from PAX.
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All these years that the game Tetris has been around they have never held an event to crown a world champion – until now. Jonas Neubauer, 29, from California won a recent tournament in Los Angeles, California held by http://tetrischampionship.com/. Even Alexey Pajitnov, the Tetris creator was there to watch over 200 players compete for the title.
I’m awesome at Tetris, too bad I never heard of this beforehand…
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This Yahoo! HotJobs posting indicates that some of the leadership and strategy skills learned through gaming could cross over into your career and make you more successful in business. I can see how particularly leadership and co-operation heavy games like MMOs could allow players to practice valuable skills online, but can playing WoW boost your career?
“We’re finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics,” says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte.
Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, spends six to seven hours a week playing online games and believes World of Warcraft trains him to become a better leader.
Personally, having been an officer in a guild and trying to run a guild a couple of times in my stint playing WoW I can say that running a guild in WoW makes running even complex projects at work almost child’s play. Politics, prima donnas, harassment and trolling, achieving short and long-term goals, delegating duties, mentoring, etc.
Running (or in my case trying to run) a significant guild in WoW can teach you more about human group dynamics and people management than you could ever want to know 
In fact, I have now that I do more people management at the office I have no desire to do it online to any great extent and won’t be running raid groups in the upcoming Cataclysm expansion of WoW.
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According to Rahul Sood (founder of Vodoo PC), insiders at Microsoft say that a project to allow cross-platform gaming between PC gamers and players using the Xbox 360 console was scrapped at least in part because the console gamers were not up to the challenge.
Rumor has it that there was a project many many months ago at Microsoft that was under wraps. The goal was to bridge XBOX gamers with PC Gamers so they could play against one another in games like Unreal, or Gears of War. This was all part of their Live strategy, and had Microsoft just stuck to their guns and made it work PC Gaming might be in a much better position than it is today.
Apparently the console gamers got their assess handed to them so badly over and over and over again that going ahead with the project that “it would be embarrasing to the XBOX team in general”.
This isn’t news to PC gamers. First, the keyboard and mouse pwns any gamepad – even with the help and assists afforded to gamepad players on console games. Second, console gamers – for the most part – suck. Anyone playing a game with a gamepad that is possible to play on PC with a keyboard and mouse is a total noob.
I agree with Rahul, its too bad this initiative didn’t go through. This project could have shed more light on PC as being the true gaming platform.
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