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gamesbrief.com - 2 days ago
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Streamline Studios has shut its Amsterdam office with
the loss of 10 jobs, according to GamesIndustry.biz ....
Reading the interview in more depth (and confirming that the website is down) makes it look as if Streamline has, in fact, shut its doors. VP Hector Fernandez blamed the economic ...
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Streamline Studios streamlined
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gamesbrief.com - 2 days ago
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Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Google for
“stealing his content”. Google has riposted by saying that...
news content “is not a big part of how we generate revenue”. Observers have argued that Murdoch doesn’t get the Internet and will destroy his own business. But maybe he just gets it better than ...
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Murdoch’s plans to cut off Google will increase ...
gamesbrief.com - 2 days ago
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I spend the weekend updating the website. Upgraded
Wordpress. Optimised the database. Stripped out a bunch of...
unnecessary plugins/widgets. I also spent ages hunting down the bug that stops the “previous posts” button from taking to you a page full of previous posts. Couldn’t solve it. ...
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Updating the technology
gamesbrief.com - 2 days ago
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Disclosure: Huddle is a client of mine and
I love what they do, so I wanted to...
share it with you. I think their service – making it easy to collaborate online – is incredibly valuable to games developers. But this is part recommendation/part advertisement. So if that puts you off, ...
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How to work more efficiently with colleagues, clients ...
gamesbrief.com - 5 days ago
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I’m breaking a rule here. I don’t usually
just rehash press releases without any analysis. But the...
Modern Warfare announcement that it has grossed an estimated $550 million in the first five days is pretty impressive. As the release says, “ Modern Warfare 2 ’s launch beat all previous ...
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Modern Warfare is the largest media launch ever, beating ...
gamesbrief.com - 5 days ago
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Sony has announced plans for a television service
that evolves . In the Financial Times today, Sony...
CEO and Chairman Sir Howard Stringer said “Sony will have a one-to-one relationship with … customers to offer subscription services, cloud storage of personal content as well as ...
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Death of the PlayStation: Why Sony’s ...
gamesbrief.com - 5 days ago
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Sony has announced plans for a television service
that evolves . In the Financial Times today, Sony...
CEO and Chairman Sir Howard Stringer said “Sony will have a one-to-one relationship with … customers to offer subscription services, cloud storage of personal content as well as ...
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Death of the PlayStation: Why Sony’s “evolving” ...
gamesbrief.com - 5 days ago
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Just posted: Modern Warfare is the largest media
launch ever, beating books, movies and other games http://tinyurl.com/yadqvz9...
# Just posted: Death of the PlayStation: Why Sony’s “evolving” televisions spell the end of the console http://tinyurl.com/yfp4rjh # Facebook bans Tattoo ...
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Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2009-11-20
gamesbrief.com - 5 days ago
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Just posted: Modern Warfare is the largest media
launch ever, beating books, movies and other games http://tinyurl.com/yadqvz9...
# Just posted: Death of the PlayStation: Why Sony’s “evolving” televisions spell the end of the console http://tinyurl.com/yfp4rjh # Facebook bans Tattoo ...
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Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2009-11-20
gamesbrief.com - 7 days ago
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For anyone who thinks that social games are
not real business, last week proved them so wrong....
Between 10th and 17th November nearly every major social games company raised money or was bought, and one or two smaller ones as well. And when those sums add up to nearly half a billion dollars, ...
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Social gaming comes of age: Social gaming companies ...
gamesbrief.com - 7 days ago
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Krome Studios, the largest developer in Australia with
over 400 employees has laid off an unspecified number...
of staff. The redundancies were said to be “necessary as we position Krome for the future”, said CEO Robert Walsh said in a statement to Gamespot . He added “We’re also actively ...
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Australian’s largest studio, Krome, lays off staff
gamesbrief.com - 7 days ago
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Krome Studios, the largest developer in Australia with
over 400 employees has laid off an unspecified number...
of staff. The redundancies were said to be “necessary as we position Krome for the future”, said CEO Robert Walsh said in a statement to Gamespot . He added “We’re also actively ...
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Australian’s largest studio, Krome, lays off staff
gamesbrief.com - 8 days ago
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At the Games Gone Wild event earlier this
year, Michael Acton Smith of Mind Candy showed a...
pretty amazing slide. Mind Candy are the team behind Moshi Monsters which has well and truly reached its tipping point. The beta launched in March 2008, It reached one million users (no mean feat) in ...
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The tipping point: How Moshi Monsters hit exponential ...
gamesbrief.com - 12 days ago
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Modern Warfare 2 has not only shattered all
records for day one sales for a video game,...
it did it despite the furore over Activision’s price. Which turns out to be much cheaper than Grand Theft Auto IV. Activision has just announced that Modern Warfare 2 has sold an estimated* 4.7 million ...
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Did GTA IV really cost 30% more per copy than Modern ...
gamesbrief.com - 12 days ago
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If you wanted money to invest in games,
I think you could do a lot worse than...
placing your bets where David Gardner places his. The former head of EA Europe and current CEO of Atari seems to have backed most of the companies I really rate. He was an investor in Playfish , which has just ...
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David Gardner and the Skype founders the latest notch on ...
gamesbrief.com - 12 days ago
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If you wanted money to invest in games,
I think you could do a lot worse than...
placing your bets where David Gardner places his. The former head of EA Europe and current CEO of Atari seems to have backed most of the companies I really rate. He was an investor in Playfish , which has just ...
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David Gardner and the Skype founders the latest notch on ...
gamesbrief.com - 12 days ago
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Just posted: Did GTA IV really cost 30%
more per copy than Modern Warfare 2 http://tinyurl.com/yjajeqr #...
Just posted: David Gardner and the Skype founders the latest notch on Playfire’s investor bedpost http://tinyurl.com/yzgwnec # Just posted: Modern Warfare blows away all records ...
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Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2009-11-13
gamesbrief.com - 12 days ago
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Just posted: Did GTA IV really cost 30%
more per copy than Modern Warfare 2 http://tinyurl.com/yjajeqr #...
Just posted: David Gardner and the Skype founders the latest notch on Playfire’s investor bedpost http://tinyurl.com/yzgwnec # Just posted: Modern Warfare blows away all records ...
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Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2009-11-13
gamesbrief.com - 13 days ago
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ELSPA has just announced that Modern Warfare has
broken every sales record in the book. In just...
one day, the game sold an estimated 1.23 million copies and generated £47.7 million of revenue at retail. The previous record holder, Grand Theft Auto IV , sold 631,000 units with revenue of ...
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Modern Warfare blows away all records
gamesbrief.com - 14 days ago
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Electronic Arts’ Q2 announcement yesterday was pretty electrifying:
1,500 jobs lost to save $100 million a year,...
while also spending $275 million in cash (and up to $400 million in total) to acquire Playfish. Some critics have struggled to understand the strategy (and the Playfish valuation) ...
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Hard-a-port! Is Riccitiello’s strategy to turn the ...
