Regular visitors to the site may notice a slight change at the top: I’ll be running the New York City Marathon this November, and will be fundraising for Child’s Play along the way. The new donation button will take you to the official Liquid Architecture gift, so please give it a click. If you’re unfamiliar [...]
Archive for August, 2008
When a High Score REALLY Matters
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Child's Play Charity, Marathon running, New York Marathon on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!
Posted in Marketing, The biz, tagged E3, Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero World Tour, Leipzig Games Convention, Playstation 3, Rock Band 2, Street Fighter IV, Tokyo Game Show, Xbox 360 on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The annual Games Convention is going on this week in Leipzig, Germany. When it was first introduced in 2002, the GC was an oddity at best. It falls on the calendar barely a month after E3 and before the Tokyo Game Show, is open to the public, and is a mostly console show seated in [...]
Just another Madden Monday?
Posted in Culture, Marketing, Sports games, The biz, tagged EA, EA Sports, Electronic Arts, GameStop, Madden, Madden 09, Madden XX, midnight launch, Playstation 3, Rose Bowl, Xbox 360 on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Monday night, hordes of dedicated fans lined up outside their local Gamestops, Best Buys, and Wal-Marts to get their hands on Madden ’09, the 20th installment of EA’s powerhouse franchise. This year’s version shipped on the 360, PS3, PSP, and weirdly enough, the PS2 and Nintendo DS. I always get a chuckle out of [...]
Space Ghost
Posted in Marketing, The biz, tagged Animatrix, Batman Gotham Knight, comic books, Dead Space, DINU, E3, EA, Electronic Arts, Madden, Mirror's Edge, supplemental material on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The combined E3 game critics panel released their final winners list yesterday. Not a ton of surprises here, but it’s interesting that EA won 4 of the 15 total awards, including Best PC Game, Best Action/Adventure, and most importantly, Most Original Game. It’s expected for EA to win Best Sports Game, and from what I’ve [...]
Scrabulous is dead. Long live Wordscraper?
Posted in Culture, Indie games, The biz, tagged beer pong, board games, Casual games, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Hasbro, Indie games, PC games, Pong toss, Scrabulous, Wii, Wordscraper on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the rapidly expanding world of casual gaming apps delivered over social networks (and who hasn’t?!), last week was an interesting one. At the beginning of the week, the poster child for Facebook as a gaming platform, Scrabulous, was turned off for all North American users. By the end [...]
