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Gizmondo: The Story That Keeps On Giving
02.22.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWe’ve done a fairly thorough job of chronicling the “rise” and demise of Gizmondo. The fun really started when Russell unearthed the company’s, uh, interesting executive renumeration scheme, and continued with the news that some of the execs had served jail time for organized crime and fraud. Unsurprisingly, the company has gone under — but [...]
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Nokia Gives More Details On New Gaming Strategy
12.21.05 | Permalink | Comments OffWhen Nokia confirmed it wouldn’t be making any more N-Gage models a little while ago, the surprise was, well, surprising, given it had announced the plans at E3 in May to make the N-Gage a gaming platform and extend it across multiple devices, and reiterated it a couple months ago in Barcelona. But then again, [...]
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Sony Pays Lip Service over Parental Control
11.29.05 | Permalink | Comments OffSony is the latest console maker to announce parental controls for its platform, according to CNN. The new PS3 will join models from rivals Microsoft and Nintendo that allow parents to veto the machines’ ability to play rated video or games.
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@Austin Games Conference - Towards The True Mobile Game
10.27.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMobile game guru Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but now head of Manifesto Games, highlighted a number of problems facing the mobile games industry, and developers in particular.
- The mobile gaming business model impedes innovation, because consumers buy games based on one line of text, and therefore are drawn to recognized brands (Tetris, licensed [...]
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@Austin Game Conference - Mobile Keynote
Jason Ford, the general manager of games and entertainment for Sprint Nextel gave the mobile keynote this morning at the Austin Game Conference. Here are some notes from his presentation:
- All this talk about the “third screen” — the mobile phone is more like the 4th or 5th screen for gamers.
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How Not To Do Mobile Gaming?
I posted last week about how Digital Chocolate’s Trip Hawkins — previously the founder of gaming giant EA — believes in mobile games with a strong social element, rather than flashy versions of console games ported to mobile, or games based solely around hot graphics. I saw today the news that mobile game publisher In-Fusio [...]
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