Tag: Games/Gaming
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Fall Line Studio – Disney’s Nintendo only Studio
The GU Games Blog (Google News) posted something that caught my eye Disney is carving out a special studio to concentrate only on DS and Wii titles. GU suggest that this may be fragmentation of the industry back to what it once was. This may be the case, but it may also mean that a…
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PIMBY – Please in my backyard! – the problem of Canadian Game Production
The Escapist has an interesting article (they always do, but this one caught my eye, again because of recent conversations with younger relatives and acquaintances). Dana Massey points out that there is some absolutely amazing work being done here in Canada with EA in Vancouver and Ubisoft in Montreal (though she misses Bioware here in…
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On Will Wright and Spore
It seems that there is significant interest for Spore from people outside the gaming world. John Seabrook of the New Yorker has an article that profiles Will, what he’s done and what Spore is going to be. If we need more evidence that gaming is going main stream (and I don’t think we do) this…
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A few more things on Wii
After seeing the video of the various people learning how to use the new Wii controller I started to think about how you would control the little Mii (your Nintendo avatar, that I think can be stored in your controller – I can see it now, kids are really going to start fighting over “their”…
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The Story of Tetris
Very interesting (an hour long) documentary from the BBC on Tetris – I’m on a roll today!