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How high is your impulse buy threshold?
I think Jeff’s on to something: While there's an odd aspect of race to the bottom that I'm not sure is entirely healthy for the iPhone app ecosystem, the idea that software should be priced low enough to pass the average user's "why not" threshold Read More...
Posted 06 August 09 10:03 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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If it wasn’t in California, this might have gotten me to choose UC Berkeley.
Well, besides the locale barrier (for politico-moral reasons of my own), there’s the teensy fact that I’m decades past being interested in attending university courses as an alternative to being gainfully employed. But places like FullSail and Digipen Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 12:21 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Pirates are customers, too?
Leave it to Valve to find the sunny side of piracy. "We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia," Holtman said. "The reason people pirated things in Russia is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television. They say Read More...
Posted 19 January 09 09:17 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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You’d think that this would already be available off-the-shelf...
I can think of three or four realistic first-person shooters that might already fill this niche. There are probably more... Reportedly, the army has had a great need for virtual training aids and initially wanted to get videogame training materials out Read More...
Posted 04 December 08 09:26 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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That’s not teen spirit I smell…
I’m not sure that I’m ready to smell my video games yet… Researchers in Birmingham have been developing new technology to add smells to the virtual world of video games. Firm adds smell to video games (bbc.co.uk) We’ve already got people getting nauseas Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 03:50 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Meet the Reedz on Xbox Live
It’s always interesting to see how other people see themselves. Or want to be seen. Maybe it’s the latent social scientist training from decades gone by in graduate school. Who knows? Giving them no specific directions besides “make an avatar for yourself”, Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 04:36 by reedme | 2 Comments   
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Fictional characters with autism
Not exactly mainstream fiction, or even mainstream scifi, but it’s based on an Xbox game published by MSGS. Mass Effect: Ascension The central character (not the protagonist) is described as having autism and several parts of the book are from her perspective. Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 01:12 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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The Next Big Gaming Platform: SQL Server?!
I realize that I'm normally off-topic, so it's weird for me to actually be blogging about SQL Server on my vacation... Figures. I've blogged before about the Real Reason™ that most guys my age (at least in the USA) got into software development: video Read More...
Posted 18 August 08 01:27 by reedme | 2 Comments   
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It may not seem related to SQL Server, but...
In the dim and distant past, I picked up the 5±2 thing rule. I'm sure it has a fancy, academified name... but Tribal Video Game Knowledge™ has edged it into the recycler in my brain. My oldest son is trying to convince me to buy enough copies Read More...
Posted 16 April 08 10:36 by reedme | 2 Comments   
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The synchronicity is frightening...
The synchronicity is frightening, especially considering that I just made time last night to finish all 45 achievements in Mass Effect for another 1,000 points... It almost like Randall's always there: just watching me. <insert_scary_ghost_noise /> Read More...
Posted 03 March 08 07:44 by reedme | 0 Comments   
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XNA to the n-th power trumps Gears of War 2 trailer?
I've been a closet XNA fan for a while. I've been lurking and watching to see how they plan solve some really hard user-generated content problems... “The time has come for the games industry to open its doors to all game creators, enabling anyone Read More...
Posted 21 February 08 03:19 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Internet vigilante justice?
I'm not advocating mob justice generally; however, this is the *only* case in which I can remember the media even coming close to a retraction of it's horribly biased, agenda-based drivel. "They" put up unresearched stories full of unnecessary Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 08:04 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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