Tag Archives: Sony

Sony’s Social Media Success

By Parker Mason | Published: October 17, 2009
(Disclosure: I work at CNW Group, and work with some of our clients on their Social Media Releases. However, I did not do any work at all on this recent release from Sony, and this blog reflects only my own thoughts and opinions, not those of CNW Group.) Last week, Sony did a Social Media Release [...]
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Off the Couch, On the Couch: Consoles’ Future

By Jens | Published: July 7, 2009
There’re two trends in video-gaming I’ve noticed lately: First, a shift towards more peripherals and consoles taking over more functions of computers—a development confirmed by the latest E3. One of the first companies to successfully introduce accessory-enhanced games into the mainstream was Sony with its Singstar and Buzz franchises. Then there was the final breakthrough: Guitar Hero, [...]
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Game Developers are Just Like Musicians

By Jens | Published: May 29, 2009
Right now, everyone’s attention is focused mainly on music piracy. That’s because people have figured out how to get music for free (or download it easily for a small price) for a long time. This is due to the fact that the average size of a song is only a few MBs, and an album [...]
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Apparently Videogames (and laptops and cell phones) do Kill People: Demand for Raw Materials Incited African “PlayStation War”

By Jens | Published: July 13, 2008
A piece on gamepolitics brought my attention to an aspect of videogaming I never really thought about: The mining of the raw materials needed to manufacture consoles. A report on Toward Freedom states that the PlayStation 2’s requirement for a rare metal in its manufacturing process helped fuel a bloody, decade-long conflict in Africa’s Democratic [...]
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How To Ruin Your Life By Not Playing Video Games

By Parker Mason | Published: November 3, 2007
My friend Jay is fucking amazing at video games. Supernaturally good. For the past six years, I’ve been telling him that he should quit school or his job and take up video games full time. For a while, I told him that he should move to Korea to do this, but it turns out that [...]
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It’s Not About Manhunt it’s About Video Games

By Jens | Published: June 25, 2007
Manhunt 2, the latest brainchild of scandal-ridden developer Rockstar, got a hard time all over the world: the English BBFC rejected the title, Ireland and Australia followed suit, while the American ESRB issued a preliminary rating of AO (Adults only) which basically amounts to a ban since most US retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Target, [...]
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Casual Gaming vs Innovation

By Jens | Published: June 8, 2007
If you had a look at the Japanese sales charts lately you could get the impression that hardcore gaming is coming to an end in the land of the rising sun. Nintendo rules with an iron fist and it seems that it can only be a matter of months until the whole country owns a [...]
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