Tag: Daily Digest

Published Daily Digest for February 5th. Shared Industry survey shows iPhone growth, console development preference. Shared Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one. Published Raising the Dead…. Shared 2 links. NPD: U.S. January Retail Video Game Sales Sink 13 Percent Luxoflux shuttered as layoffs hit Activision dev studios, publisher confirms

Well, the little one has started day care, which means that despite my anxiety about not having her around, I can get back to work. This means that posts should return to relative normality around here, though my New Years Resolution to check email less and write more may mean a rising frequency of posts.…

Published Daily Digest for January 29th. Heading into the office, if Alexis will actually let me leave. Note to self: touching baby once dressed is like … http://loopt.us/QosrPw.t [caseyodonnell] For those of us who can’t attend, the #AHoG live tweeting is great. Thank you. [caseyodonnell]

Published Daily Digest for January 22nd. Shared With Tablet, Apple Sees New Money in Old Media – WSJ.com. Shared 2 links. SCEA Announces Cast For Reality Show Competition To Become A Game Tester GDC 2010 and Google Offer Developers Complimentary Smartphones Shared Fakebook Quotes. Goonies on Netflix/Xbox360 in HD is pure nerdy/80s goodness. Sleeping baby…

Shared 2 links. The Escapist Bulletin: Why educational games are stupid PopCap, Bungie Donate To Haitian Relief Efforts

Shared Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine. Shared 2 links. News: "Rockstar Spouse" accuses dev of pushing its employees "to the brink" News: Microsoft: "There’s no need to launch a new console" Thursday deadline for #NetNeutrality! Tell the FCC to stand up for the open Internet: http://bit.ly/63SKL8 (via @freepress) [caseyodonnell]

Shared A Sobering Statistic for Aspiring Academics. Keep seeing licence plates with AIX on them. All I can think of is the ill-fated IBM OS that supported the old machines of my nerd youth. [caseyodonnell] To challenge students or not? If you push them they resent it. If you don’t, you aren’t preparing them. Perhaps…

Shared The Crapware Carnival. The Tawny Scrawny Lion brings sleep, and not a moment too soon. Happy NYE from the land of sleeplessness. [caseyodonnell]

Qualitative comment on game feedback from recent user testing: "Pimp, gangster, hood, I loved it!" Me = understanding 25% of that. [caseyodonnell] Shared 4 links. EA has ‘nothing more to add’ to Atlanta studio rumors Microsoft files patent for user-health-generated Avatars Microsoft files patent for user-health-generated Avatars Game Developer Census Reveals Considerable Canadian Expansion Shared…

Shared 3 links. Sexy Videogameland: About That Article Editorial: Getting it Wrong Create a fluid transition from login window to desktop in two easy steps At hospital. "The Aleatory" is closer to coming out to play. Too bad both of us are aware of how long the next 24+ hours are going to be. [caseyodonnell]…