I’ve wanted to cover the NPD Group report for quite some time, but the monthly reports are pretty matter-of-fact and there are a ton of qualified sites on the blogroll that can deliver that quick update every month. The report they issued today on the year’s top sellers, however, actually holds a few surprises and [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Running the NY Marathon to put games in children’s hospitals
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be running this year’s New York City Marathon to raise funds for Child’s Play. Readers in NYC can join us at the live fundraiser (featuring Rock Band!) on 9/19, and every contribution and digg helps! Together, we can help some very sick kids through a very scary time, through the power of video games. [...]
Like sand through the hourglass, these are the games of our lives
Posted in Culture, Games of our Lives, Nintendo, Old school, tagged Atari, autobiography, Bubble Bobble, Burgertime, Donkey Kong, Grand Prix, Mickey Mousecapade, NES, Nintendo, Paperboy, Punch-Out, Super Mario Brothers, timeline on September 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Dick: I guess it looks as if you’re reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological? Rob: No… Dick: Not alphabetical… Rob: Nope… Dick: What? Rob: Autobiographical. Dick: (In awe) No fucking way. No doubt inspired by the brilliant movie (and book) High Fidelity, I’ve seen a lot of music bloggers run with an autobiography-through-music [...]
Madden ready for primetime
Posted in Culture, Marketing, Sports games, The biz, tagged ESPN, Madden, NFL, NFL Countdown, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just in case you missed it, ESPN add a cool little feature to this season’s NFL Countdown pregame shows: their in-studio talent interacts with player models from Madden ’09. Brooks Barnes captured all the gritty details in a NY Times piece earlier this week – it’s certainly worth a read. ESPN has played a big [...]
Time for s’more Spore
Posted in Culture, Marketing, serious games, The biz, tagged Carl Zimmer, EA, Evolutionary games, Maxis, PC, Spore, video games in the classroom, Wii, Will Wright on September 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Just in case you missed it, be sure and check out the excellent piece on Spore in the NY Times by Yale fellow and renowned scientist Carl Zimmer. The Times is hardly ever wanting for quality games journalism, with Seth Schiesel on staff and even the occasional think piece from Steven Johnson in the Sunday [...]
My big huge crush on LittleBigPlanet
Posted in Culture, Indie games, Marketing, Sony, The biz, tagged Consumer Generated Media, E3, Guitar Hero, Leipzig Games Convention, LittleBigPlanet, PAX, Playstation 3, Rock Band, Smash Bros Brawl, Sony, Soul Calibur 4 on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As another stellar PAX show wound down this weekend, Sony completed a more-or-less clean sweep of industry show prerelease buzz for LittleBigPlanet. The construction/platformer/multiplayer collaboration defies all current genre (yours truly is calling it a “toybox” game) and is quick to make fans wherever it pops up. It dominated E3 “Game of Show” lists, was [...]
