Posts Tagged games industry
Fairway Solitaire… and the power of Penny Arcade
Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Links of Others, MMO-related on July 15th, 2008
I’ve known about the ‘power of Penny Arcade’ for years now – in fact, I’ve watched it grow. The ‘power’ in case you were wondering, is basically their ability to get a mass of consumers to go after one thing; usually a game. Obviously, that’s a power often wielded to get people to buy their own stuff (and why not) but often it’s used to push people towards products they might not have otherwise heard about.
When it’s aimed towards a web site, often The Power can crush web servers that are unprepared. People used to talk about ‘getting slashdotted’ (ie, getting linked to by Slashdot – or just /. if you’re an ubernerd), and then ‘Boing-Boinged’ but when you get hit by Penny Arcade, you get wanged. (Their term.) Read the rest of this entry »
Want to write about games?
Posted by Rockjaw in Breaking In, MMO-related on June 18th, 2008
This would be a damn good start.
Videogaming 247 – which exploded out of nowhere earlier this year and has almost effortlessly become my favourite gaming news site, bar none – is looking for writers.
You won’t get paid. You will get edited, but you will be edited by one of the All-Time Great Editors – Pat “I made C&VG cool” Garratt. (And quite frankly? We need more really good editors on gaming news sites, please.)
Most important of all, you’ll get published credits on a Very Good Site that’ll look fantastic on your CV.
If anyone out there reading this wants to get into the games industry or just wants to write about games like an obsessive nutjob (a la Garratt, who’s the kind of obsessive nutjob the industry needs much, much more of) then get your ass over to the site and apply pronto.
If nothing else, head over there to see if you would pass Pat’s 14-question ‘applicant test’ with flying colours or not.
20 most influential people in MMOs, huh?
Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others, MMO-related on May 29th, 2008
I couldn’t possibly comment on this list from Beckett, who publish a print magazine (how quaint!) called Massive Online Gamer (I assume that’s not a cutting reference to one’s weight). It is apparently, a list of the 20 most influential people in the MMO industry. Like I said, I can’t comment.
But you can.
Discuss…. Read the rest of this entry »
Iron Man and a grand theft of your time
Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, MMO-related on May 5th, 2008
I found it interesting to read more than a few worried comments last week from movie commentators and analysts that Grand Theft Auto IV might actually affect the box office performance of Iron Man, given that GTA IV came out a few days ahead of Iron Man’s release, and that both of them are ostensibly aimed at the same audience.
With a nice round $100m opening weekend for Marvel’s first self-financed blockbuster, it’s fair to say that those predictions were absolutely bogus, although I never thought for a minute that GTA IV would do Iron Man any damage – and nor did the vice chairman of the studio releasing Iron Man, either:
”It’s crazy to think that young males can’t carve out two hours for Iron Man. It’s going to be a great week to be a young guy.”
Or even, erm, a not-so-young guy; this week has been a riot of new entertainment for me, between queuing for GTA IV outside Woolworths on Tuesday (Yep, there was a queue!) and sitting with my over-excited colleagues during Iron Man’s opening night. The idea that any of us were going to miss Iron Man to sit at home and play GTA IV was insane, even though I’m pretty sure every single one of us who saw the movie that night went home and played GTA IV afterwards. Read the rest of this entry »
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