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- Super Slots Summer Game Show Comes To An End
- New price cuts upend console value landscape
- Zynga’s FarmVille gets 11 million users
- EA’s chief creative officer describes game industry’s re-engineering
Super Slots Summer Game Show Comes To An End
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New price cuts upend console value landscape
CNET News
its subscription based. Ive already spent the money on the system and controllers and cables why am i going to pay a monthy fee to play a game online after i already had to shell out $60 just to bring it home. While the structure for online game play may be better on microsofts side its not so far over that which sony has that i would swap systems.
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Zynga’s FarmVille gets 11 million users
Bizjournals.com
“No other application has achieved what this game has in such a short amount of time. Who would have guessed that FarmVille is now the biggest online game in North America and quickly becoming the biggest online game in the world” said Mark Pincus founder and CE of Zynga the two year old juggernaut that is making money at a rate of more than $100 million a year. Farm-themed games have been popular in Asia for years. When it was launched on June 19 industry bloggers remarked that FarmVille was an improved version of the popular “Farm Town” game which is owned by a Florida developer called.
EA’s chief creative officer describes game industry’s re-engineering
VentureBeat
For kids “those games are like crack” Hilleman said. “Don’t you wish you invented that?”He noted how there are 28000 Internet game rooms in South Korea where gamers pay by the hour and the establishments make their money on sales of soda and Doritos. About half of the country’s 48 million people are game players with tastes ranging from hardcore online games like Starcraft to fashion games for girls. “If I want to go to see the past of gaming I go to Japan” he said. “If I want to see the future I go to Korea. ”To target the casual gamers who like the Wii Facebook or iPhone games Hilleman says traditional game developers have to turn their approach inside out. He used to focus on immersive games where you enable someone to immerse themselves in a game world and emerge 20 hours later.