So, it’s Christmas Eve and everyone is out doing their thing with family and friends, and I’m searching the Internet for things to write about. There’s not much going on out in video game land, so I thought I’d take a minute and share a cool… Read More »
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Hey there! This is our first full week of Giga Gamez and it’s been a pretty good one. We’ve been linked a few times and have written a few things that have garnered a little attention. So, let’s take a look back at some of our… Read More »
So, first people camp out in front of Best Buys for days at a time to get the PS3, and then they trade them for Nintendo Wiis. Seriously. Tony Conrad, CEO and Founder of Sphere, pointed this out to us and we had to see it… Read More »
There’s something about the Holiday season that makes people a little bit more charitable. Just like Mr. Scrooge found his heart after being visited by the three spirits of Christmas and the Grinch’s heart grew while he was trying to jack Who-ville, Microsoft has, in what would… Read More »
Someone needs to keep their eye on the newest, most interesting companies out there, and I think I know just the person. Our friend Liz Gannes over at New TeeVee pointed me in the direction of Dan Primack, a savvy financial blogger and esteemed Editor-at-Large for… Read More »
The Virtua Fighter franchise, long considered to be a Sony exclusive, is also going to be seeing a XBox 360 release, according to Next Generation. Sega recently announced that the arcade-based fighting game, Virtua Fighter 5, would be released in the late summer of 2007 in North America… Read More »
Om Malik, Blogging Guru and our Benevolent Benefactor, has written a new piece devoted to surfing the Internet from your couch. We’re not talking about WebTV here, we’re talking built-in browsers for the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. The Wii’s new Internet channel, which launches… Read More »
Microsoft Questions Wii and PS3 Online Strategy
The Nintendo Wii has taken off like a rocket and is a seriously hot commodity this holiday season. The PS3 is also very popular, but it’s hard to find due more to a relatively small launch than an overall desire by consumers (not to say it… Read More »
Study Shows In-Game Ads Not Effective
Bunnyfoot Quantities, a company that specializes in Behavioural Research, has found that in-game advertising in sports titles has less of an impact than desired. Using their specialized tool, the Sponsor Fixation Index (SFI), Bunnyfoot analyzed the results from 120 different game players. The players were chosen… Read More »
Q&A With Raph Koster
Raph Koster has worked in the MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game business for quite some time and has been the lead designer on such games as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Recently, he and John Donham started their own company. Koster, President of Areae Inc, and very… Read More »
