Bruce On Games » Humour http://www.bruceongames.com A veteran's view on marketing games Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Rejected Wii games http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/01/rejected-wii-games/ http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/01/rejected-wii-games/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:00:51 +0000 Bruce http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=2310 Related stories
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The gesture interface presents us with infinite possibilities.

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]]> http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/18/console-war/feed/ 0 A fake Peter Molyneux http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/17/a-fake-peter-molyneux/ http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/17/a-fake-peter-molyneux/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:06:44 +0000 Bruce http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=2112 Related stories
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We are all used to the various fake blogs of Steve Jobs, but he is not the only person important in the game industry who is a victim of impersonation. Now there is the fake Peter Molyneux Twitter, which is vastly better than the real one!

The source for this article.

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In 2002 Sony brought us the Eyetoy peripheral but failed to capitalise on its potential. At the 2005 Tokyo Game Show Nintendo revealed their Wii gesture interface that was probably the biggest ever single step change in video gaming. Now Microsoft, after a long gestation, have taken both these ideas and developed them several steps further for the Xbox 360, adding voice control whilst they were at it.

If this works as well as portrayed in the video above then it will be little short of revolutionary, the imagination of game designers can take flight in limitless ways. Removing all control input limitations means gaming can go places we would never have dreamed of.

From a hardware point of view the change in abilities that this brings the Xbox 360 are so great that it is almost like they had launched a new console. But the upcoming Xbox 720 will still be on schedule, Moore’s Law and competitive pressure will make this inevitable.

And competitively, if Natal works as advertised, the Wii will be in severe trouble with its main party trick trumped. And the Playstation 3 is looking distinctly old generation with no gesture interface. All this could change over the next 48 hours as Nintendo and Sony make their E3 announcements. We live in interesting times.

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Social Networking: How To Behave On An Internet Forum

This amused me because they have got videogame fanboys spot on.

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***Contains bad language***

A brief history of one man’s gaming life from the early 90s to the present day.

The first person to successfully list of all the game titles in this video will win a CD copy of Dan Bull’s debut album Safe. Send your answers as a video response.

Buy or download Dan Bull’s debut album Safe from www.myspace.com/danbull

-Generation Gaming-
Lyrics and vocals: Dan Bull
Instrumental: Devastator Sounds
Video editing: Dan Bull
Video sources: You lot

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