CODA A sideways look at the games industry
THE INDUSTRY IN 140 CHARACTERS A month in tweets by the industry elite
@Jason_Rubin Lots of people saying “please save
THQ because they make some of my favorite games”. People, that’s why I signed on.
(Jason Rubin, THQ) June 3rd
@martinhollis NintendoLand is the closest thing I’ve
seen to a nod to Disney from Nintendo. Disneyland has had a huge influence, centrally Super Mario 64. (Martin Hollis, games designer) June 5th
@wilw This is your man on the scene, Scoop
Wheaton, reporting that there is nothing to currently report at #E3.
(Wil Wheaton, actor and, it seems, games journalist) June 5th
@numberless I want to start a Kickstarter Project
called “I Backed ‘I Backed Kickstarter’ on Kickstarter”.
(Scott Jon Siegel, Popcap) June 5th
@majornelson The Friday after coming home from
#E3 is a strange combination of exhaustion and relief.
(Larry Hryb, Microsoft) June 8th
@pottan There’s a lot of pointing and clicking
in #Diablo3 and it’s certainly an adventure. What does that make it?
(Patrick Liu, DICE) June 8th
@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
Going under the bridge Snake dived in MGS2 tanker scene’s opening. It’s been 13 years?
(Hideo Kojima, Kojima Productions) June 9th
@charltonbrooker Had a thing published today
bemoaning poor female characters & immediately lots of comments from men sobbing that they’re misrepresented too. (Charlie Brooker , celebrity journalist) June 18th
@wonderlandblog Dear @EU_Commission. This Science,
It’s a Girl Thing, the pink lipstick logo, the sexy wiggles, the stilettoes. No.
(Alice Taylor, MakieLab) June 22nd
@SpiltMilkStudio If you make a game for 3DS that’d be
better with two sticks you’re an idiot. The hardware is what it is. Design for it. #design101 (Andrew John Smith, Spilt Milk Studio) June 22nd
AN OPEN MIND CLIFFY BLEZINSKI
Epic’s less than shy games designer tells
Xbox360achievments.org why games are becoming too easy
72% Easy video games
12% Difficult video games
16% Systems
interacting with systems
Telling
Xbox360acheivements.org how he feels about the current generation of games and their difficulty: It feels like in this current console generation that we’ve taken a lot of steps to grow the audience, and what I think’s happened is that the games have become more linear and easier, so it feels like a lot of quick-time events.
More on the matter, and on being challenged by systems: The more I play games like that the more I turned off to them and just want to get back to systems interacting with systems, and get back to a game that, you know; when was the last time a game really challenged you and asked something of you, right?
And finally, on the kind of difficult games Cliffy B likes: There’s a reason why Demon Souls and Dark Souls have taken off lately. It’s because they really require you actually try.
IT FIGURES : E3 2012
This year’s E3 welcomed 45,700 video game industry professionals, investor analysts, journalists, and retailers through its doors, hosting attendees from 103 countries. The Entertainment Software Association event filled 30,000 total hotel room nights across Los Angeles, and generated an estimated $40 million in revenue for the city. Over 200 exhibitors showed their wares at the event, and according to the organiser,‘billions’ of consumers absorbed news from the show. Some 300 buyers from retailer stores worldwide participated in E3’s VIP Retailer Program. The three-day show generated 55 news stories for Develop’swebsite.
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