CODA A sideways look at the games industry
THE INDUSTRY IN 140 CHARACTERS A month in tweets by the industry elite
@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) Saturday, December 31st
@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) Sunday, January 1st
@benfurneaux Kazuo Hirai to be named President of Sony, Howard Stringer to remain CEO. Can anyone explain to me the difference between these roles? (Ben Rex Furneaux, Turbulenz) Friday, January 6th
@CharlieBeatnik Wow. BigBig and Monumental Games go on the same day. Gutted for all my friends involved. Best of luck guys.
(Andrew Dennison, Rare) Tuesday, January 10th
@Raspberry_Pi We’ve started manufacture - see
raspberrypi.org for details! (The Raspberry Pi team) Tuesday, January 10th
@ian_livingstone Absolutely delighted for all involved in Next Gen Skills campaign. What a day!
(Ian Livingstone, Eidos) Wednesday, January 11th
23%
@KieranO @ian_livingstone Well done! Just
make sure they teach useful programming languages like Python instead of out-of-date languages like unis do
(Kieran O’Neill, Playfire) Wednesday, January 11th
@milessi Well done to @uk_ie, @ian_livingstone, @percyblakeney63, @davidbraben & all who have been lobbying for [ICT education] change (Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive)
Wednesday, January 11th
@BinaryTweedDeej HA! Russian pirates have translated Clover: A Curious Tale and started distributing it!
(DeeJay, Binary Tweed) Tuesday, January 10th
@megganpez I’m ringing the "no new stuff" bell for GDC. Please, no more ‘great ideas’ or ‘awesome partnerships’. I’m done. The Donger need food. (Meggan Scavio, GDC organiser) Wednesday, January 11th
IT FIGURES : FALLOUT ONLINE FALLS AWAY
On January 9th 2012 it emerged that cash-strapped publisher Interplay has voluntarily cancelled development of the potentially lucrative FalloutMMO in return for a $2 million payout from Bethesda. The move effectively cancels the FalloutMMO, which had been in development at Bulgarian studio Masthead. On December 29th, Masthead settled in court with Bethesda and conceded it has no legal right to use any Fallout intellectual property. It had already come to light that Interplay had been operating in financial disarray. In 2011 the publisher’s cash balance had fallen to $3,000 by the turn of the year, with a working capital deficit nearly at $3 million. Bethesda acquired Fallout intellectual property rights from Interplay in April 2007. The group said it “conditionally” licensed back to Interplay certain trademark rights to make a FalloutMMO, provided Interplay secured $30 million in financing for the MMO and commenced full scale development of the game byApril 2009.
72 | FEBRUARY 2012 Alan Turing Livingstone
59% Ian
Telling the BETT education show attendees that he owes a games industry legend some thanks: "Last year’s superb Livingstone-Hope Review – for which I would like to thank both authors – said that the slump in the UK’s video games development sector is partly the result of a lack of suitably-qualified graduates."
Telling the BETT crowd why we need to look back to move forward: "Britain should never forget that one of our great heroes, Alan Turing, laid the foundation stones on which all modern computing rests.
Boasting to the BETT conference about how huge his pockets are: "A desktop computer became a laptop computer. My pockets were filled with huge mobile phones, then smaller mobile phones, a Blackberry, and now an e-reader and iPad."
AN OPEN MIND
UK EDUCATION SECRETARY MICHAEL GOVE
based on his speech on shaking up computer science in schools
18% Fitting an iPad in his pocket
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