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danthat Guys, nice effort but let’s be honest it’s not happening, no one’s getting any work done. Let’s call it Christmas and knock off until 2012. (Dan Marshall, Size Five Games) Friday, December 16th
giordanobc Apparently, Zynga’s stock price only grows if you invite at least five friends to take care of it.
(Giordano Contestabile, PopCap Games) Friday, December 16th
ID_AA_Carmack Opened up a new-in-box, 10 year old copy of Paper Mariofor N64 with my son. It is older than he is, but he is having fun.
(John Carmack, id Software) Saturday, December 24th
OnlyOneT I find it incredible that ITV run a TV commercial of the year program at primetime yet there is no video games equivalent on TV in the UK.
(Stuart Turner, Capcom) Wednesday, December 28th
mike_acton Why are credits in games still so non- interactive? I want Twitter and Linkedin links and profiles of individuals! And comments. :)
(Mike Acton, Insomniac Games) Saturday, December 31st
nicholaslovell First day of the new working year and I should be filled with joy at being back at work and cracking on. Instead I want to play games. (Nicholas Lovell, Gamesbrief) Tuesday, January 3rd
cliffski Looks like being in a sale + humble bundle has encouraged lots of new piracy links. Great plan guys. YOU are the reason SOPA exists.
(Cliff Harris, Positech Games) Sunday, January 1st
notch @cliffski SOPA is a MASSIVE overreaction to piracy. I can’t emphasise the “massive” enough. The evil of piracy dwarves compared to SOPA. (Markus Persson, Mojang) Sunday, January 1st
scully1888 In typical bad reviewer fashion, I’m now going to review 2012 without finishing it first. Dull, feels very similar to its predecessor. 43%.
(Chris Scullion, ONM) Sunday, January 1st
AceyBongos Best thing about it being 2012 – Mass Effect 3seems much closer now. March 9th, according to Amazon. Cannot wait.
(Graeme Boyd, Xbox) Tuesday, January 3rd
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Weekly global sales of the Kindle e-book reader on Amazon over Christmas
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