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Game Industry

CCP Reaches New Heights. By Climbing a Mountain. For Real.

You know how I said that I didn’t want to report gaming news on this blog, despite the fact that it is what I mostly want to write about? Yeah. Screw that. Why keep a blog (blarg)  if I’m not writing about what I enjoy?
CCP developers Solomon, Diagoras, and Punkturis were also not willing to [...]

GDC 2010: Coming Full Circle, but With a New View

Shortly before midnight yesterday I stumbled back into my apartment after taking a flight from San Fransisco back to Austin. I was in California, of course, for the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest events in the world for the game industry. It wasn’t my first time at GDC since I had attended it [...]

Rise From Your Grave! Heatwave Revives Gods and Heroes

You may recognize the name Gods and Heroes from a few years back. It was a game being developed by Perpetual Entertainment, the studio that was also developing Star Trek Online before they closed their doors. Whenever a studio closes, it is always a sad. Developers find themselves out of work, and the games that [...]

Cheyenne Mountain Files for Bankruptcy

As much as I’d hate for it to seem like I’m coming out of blargging-retirement just to talk about how Stargate: Resistance and Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is filing for Chapter 11, and it really is more of a coincidence than anything, I practically feel required to talk about this one.
I’ve been skeptical about Stargate [...]

EA Buys Out Playfish, Lays Off Other Employees

EA Buys Out Playfish, Lays Off Other Employees

.Today brings both interesting news and bad news out of Electric Arts. It was announced that EA has sank $300 million into purchasing Playfish, a casual game studio that’s made a splash on Facebook. While casual web games are certainly no new thing for EA, there is no doubt in my mind that they’ll be [...]

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