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bruceongames.com - 10 hours ago
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Another great video . Like the previous one
it is posted on YouTube by someone calling themselves...
EvonyFraud. But this time they have produced a funny parody TV advert. ...
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Evony parody TV advertisement
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bruceongames.com - 45 hours ago
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Well, I must say that I am amazed
at this. Someone has put a lot of time...
and money into forensically examining the truth behind Evony. And Evony’s lies are exposed open for everyone to see. ...
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Evony. Very interesting Youtube video
bruceongames.com - 2 days ago
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This is really interesting stuff from Doug Creutz
of Cowen Group in Gamsutra . He has done...
some research and analysis which has resulted in this list of the top 7 reasons people buy a video game, in priority order. But be a bit cynical here, it is very well known that people tend to tell ...
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The 7 reasons a person buys a game, in order of importance
bruceongames.com - 2 days ago
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With the current recession it is not surprising
that people will speculate about which companies are going...
to fail. Here is a list of predicted company failures for this year , which, as you can see contain several companies related to the game industry. This list is based on facts and ...
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UK game company failures, 2009 predictions
bruceongames.com - 3 days ago
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Let’s get the facts out of the way
first, Christian Svensson Capcom’s VP, strategic planning and business...
development, has given an interview to GamesIndustry.biz in which he said “There is nothing more difficult in this business than launching new IP”. This is one of ...
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“Nothing more difficult” than new IP launch
bruceongames.com - 4 days ago
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At E3 in 2009 Nintendo announced their Vitality
Sensor and the video game world yawned. Just recently...
they have announced that they will be showing games for it at 2010 E3, that the device would be available to buy in Q4 ‘10 and the video game world yawned again. Which is a shame because ...
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Nintendo Vitality Sensor has great potential
bruceongames.com - 5 days ago
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I have written on here before about 3D
gaming and how it greatly enhances the experience and...
immersiveness of gaming . To me it is like being at the theatre, whilst 2D gaming is like watching the TV. A huge jump. Now Sony have come out with their 3D plans and they are really going for it. ...
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Sony get 3D
bruceongames.com - 6 days ago
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This is getting interesting. Evony is just one
of a number of Chinese games that are nearly...
the same as each other , all being marketed by what look like different companies. Where does the original game come from? One great thing that has come out of this whole Evony episode is the huge ...
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321WAN, the company behind Evony?
bruceongames.com - 8 days ago
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This makes absolute complete and utter sense. People
buy perceptions, not reality. And people are far more...
concerned about peer pressure than they are concerned about their own judgement. There is a make of car that is distinctly average. In fact some of the smaller models are not very ...
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Game marketing is three times more important than ...
bruceongames.com - 9 days ago
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We have at least five games originating in
China now that are remarkably similar to each other....
Evony you know about, Kingory I have written about before . Fog of War, Napoleonic War (Nap War) and Lords Online are pretty much the same game again. OK the maps and story are different each ...
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Kingory, Nap War, Evony, Empire Craft, Lords Online. ...
bruceongames.com - 10 days ago
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30 years ago commercial videogames for home computers
arrived in Liverpool when I brought a pile of...
Apple 2 games to Microdigital that I had bought at Computers Components of Orange County in California. A couple of years later, in Liverpool, Bug Byte software was set up, one of the very ...
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Game development clusters
bruceongames.com - 12 days ago
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Last week we had the USA October sales
statistics from NPD showing game sales of $573 million,...
down from $698 million last year . So are we in trouble? Is gaming on a downwards spiral? Are people finding better things to do with their time and money? The answer is no, and here’s why: ...
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Game sales down by 18%
bruceongames.com - 15 days ago
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I would like to say a big thank
you to all the many people who have contributed...
to this fund , I have been more than pleasantly surprised by the response. Every amount, no matter small, will help, it all adds up. And whilst I am truly appreciative of everyone’s generosity I have ...
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Evony fighting fund – a big thank you
bruceongames.com - 16 days ago
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There are now many hundreds of millions of
people playing video games. It is inevitable that many...
millions of these are great gaming enthusiasts and that many of these want to work in the video game industry. My advice, based on 30 years in and around it , is don’t. And here’s ...
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You don’t want to work in the video game industry
bruceongames.com - 17 days ago
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Here Keith Vaz is in the House of
Commons whingeing about Modern Warfare 2. It is amazing...
that he is not applying the same standards to books and films. Books have far, far worse content yet they have no age rating whatsoever . Why doesn’t he do something about that? ...
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Infamous Keith Vaz video
bruceongames.com - 17 days ago
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This is brilliant. And about time too. Some
people modify their Xbox game consoles so that they...
can steal games . They don’t want to pay the developers for all the work that has gone into making the game. They are quite happy to be thieves when they think that they won’t be ...
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Microsoft act against the game pirates
bruceongames.com - 17 days ago
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Everyone in game publishing and game journalism should
watch this. > Related stories American neo conservative has...
video game sex problem The ...
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Rewriting Game Journalism video
bruceongames.com - 18 days ago
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Thanks to Negative Gamer for this one .
Evony won’t mind as there is no such thing...
as bad publicity, which makes you wonder why they are suing me . ...
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Evony porn girls
bruceongames.com - 18 days ago
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Everyone reading this will know that most mainstream
journalists and most politicians do not understand video games,...
it is one of the main themes of this blog and so has been written about here in dozens of articles (here are just a few): The Bible Vs video games Keith Vaz American neo ...
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Gamer’s Voice on Facebook. Tom Watson gets it right
bruceongames.com - 18 days ago
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ABC Radio in Australia is the equivalent of
the BBC Radio 4 in the uk. They have...
a programme called the Law Report, presented by Damien Carrick , which looks at the important legal issues of the day. They have just broadcast a programme about the Evony LLC Vs Bruce Everiss case which ...
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The Law Report, ABC radio, Australia. And Evony
