February 2012
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Days of Wonder CEO explains how iPad Ticket to... →
The iPad release caused a 30% boost in board game sales.
Later, the iPhone release caused a 70% boost in board game sales.
Wow.
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Mr. Tappy came from humble beginnings – in fact, he originally was made from plastic cut with a hacksaw and bent over a household toaster. This solution worked fine as a usability filming rig a few years back when “a phone was a phone” … but when touch screens and tablet devices arrived, a more flexible and stable solution was required.
Kill Screen - The Vita's Identity Question →
The Vita’s argument is that playing videogames is an intrinsically complicated act, that a surplus of control is needed to achieve some kind of gaming fidelity. It’s rather convincing. Giving the device the subway test, I find not only my hands, but my whole body wrapped around the Vita as if it were a cello. Pressing one button twice, to bring a tiny golfer to swing her golf club, uncovers a...
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Path’s #1 objective should be making sure that the only stuff that gets added to paths are entirely human-generated from the app and not some cross post or application.
They do that, and there’ll always be a value and quality to content in their service that Facebook will never have; It’s the thing that makes me keep checking Path, and wanting to use it more.
Let the robots...
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“I may seem laughably sentimental about what’s essentially pixels jiggering...”
– Lucy Prebble: “Gaming is an artform just like theatre”
Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice →
“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said, ‘Dad, can I go on the Internet and get your music?’” Glass says. “And I said, ‘Sure you can.’ He came back about 20 minutes later and said, ‘Dad, I just downloaded your whole catalog.’ He’s 10 years old. He’s 10 years old! “I said: ‘Really? What did that cost you?’ He said, ‘It’s free!’ And what...
