• The Bottom Feeder: Being Nice Is Good Business.
    One of the fundamental truths of writing single-player PC games now is that it’s so easy to pirate anything that people will only buy your game if they want to. Which means that being honest and forthright and likable is a key business strategy.

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  • Yesterday’s Games Industry: Today! | Five Players
    While I was spending most of the Nineties eating crisps in my basement Stuart Campbell was writing professionally for anything from Amiga Power to Your Sinclair to PC Zone. In an ironic twist he was probably also doing all of this while wasting away in a basement, but beyond the body atrophy and the shared games journalism rubbish our similarities end. Stu is as much of a legend as you’ll find in British games journalism, having carved out a niche for himself as a kind of yapping bulldog for truth and justice in the industry.
  • Atari 2600 Teardown – iFixit
    Welcome to day three of our week of game console teardowns. So far we’ve taken apart the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and the RCA Studio II; the Atari 2600 is next!
  • Naming violations in World of Warcraft | Border House
    Earlier this week, a poster on WoW_Ladies made a comment about how she often reports names in violation of the naming policies using the in-game ticket feature. While it takes a few days for her to get an automated GM response, she would go back to the toons’ armory pages to see that nothing had changed. I’m sure most of us have found a toon’s name that was completely out of line; some of us ignored it and kept playing, some of us, like that LJ poster, spoke up and tried to change it.
  • Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours » Startup Monkeys
    Last weekend, I was lucky enough to be able to participate in the first Node Knockout. The rules are simple: you have 48 hours to code someone amazing using the Node.js platform. Planning ahead is allowed, however it has to be all on paper (no digital assets, designs, etc)
  • The Escapist : Extra Punctuation: Don’t Use the Word “Gamer”
    I have a request, planet Earth. I have graced you with my presence for 27 years and I think it’s only fair you do something for me in return. I want everyone to stop using the word “gamer”.

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