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3D Realms + EPIC = DNF Was a Guerilla Marketing Scheme (The Chair Story)
Laurence Hartje just sent me a link over to Charlie Wiederhold’s blog where he reiterates the “Chair Story”. We were talking about 3D Realms’s announced death and thought things started to sound fishy when Laurence sent this along. At first glance “The Chair Story” sounded stupid, but it was from a 3D Realms insider from back [...]
Continue reading...Controlling the Future of Gaming and Entertainment Starts with Game Consoles
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A study by JPR found the PC gaming market to be 2.6x larger than console gaming market… that includes every Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii together (totally somewhere around 74.7 million units worldwide) with an estimated 196 million “gaming machine” class of PC shipped world wide. Yet, big companies and analysts have been claiming that [...]
Continue reading...Sun Buys MySQL, Oracle Buys BEA Systems
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
What just happened… two more big boys bite the dust. Sun buys MySQL Oracle buys BEA Systems (after upping their offer from the first time last year) So that leaves us with… IBM, RedHat, Sun and Oracle.
Continue reading...Vivendi (Blizzard) and Activision Combine Into Mega-Publishing-Monster
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Ted Regulski just sent in this landscape-changing news from the game industry: Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business — which [...]
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
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