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Sayonora: The Last Game Break Column

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2008-03-21 12:00:19 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...Game Break blog item. During the past few years, I've broken exclusive stories and given you exclusive interviews with top Hollywood stars along with top musicians. And VH1 has had unprecedented access to game developers to get the inside scoop on the most innovative console games, along with casual games and independent games My favorite...
 
Tags: game, video, human tetris video, video game journalism, game developers, school, school game, video game industry, final game
 
 
 
 
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Into The Casual Game Cafe With Trip Hawkins

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2008-03-19 11:51:54 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games and social experiences on mobile phones. Hes trying to innovate once again with Digital Chocolate. But the question remains, Can mobile gaming experiences be accepted by mass audiences around the world? Hawkins thinks it can happen, and hes putting his heart and soul into making that bet happen each and every day HG: Weve talked about...
 
Tags: mobile phone, typical mobile phone, phone, mobile phone games, mobile, mobile games, casual, market, mobile market
 
 
 
 
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Trip Hawkins: Casual Games & Mobile Phones

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2008-03-18 12:09:19 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games. He didnt wait long at all to create Digital Chocolate, which has a new way of looking at and making cell phone games. While cell phone games havent been embraced by users in the mass way that has been predicted, Hawkins is trying to buck the trend and change things by adding a distinct social element to his offerings. As usual, hes...
 
Tags: mobile, casual games, mobile phone, mobile phone games, casual, phone, mobile games, marry casual games, mobile phone space
 
 
 
 
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Exclusive: Electronic Arts Founder Trip Hawkins, Part IV

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2008-03-17 10:32:49 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games for the Sega Genesis led Trip Hawkins and his team to take Electronic Arts public in September of 1989. The first releases of Sega Genesis games occurred in June of 1990. But how would the burgeoning video game company do in the future? Would Hawkins bet pay off Part of the reason Hawkins chose to take the company public was because...
 
Tags: player, 3do player, hawkins, 3do, console, genesis console games, trip, trip hawkins, company
 
 
 
 
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Exclusive: The Ultra-Candid Trip Hawkins, Part 3

2008-03-14 13:47:19 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
 
...game was supremely successful. But the company was on a mission to become a worldwide leader. In this portion of our multi-part interview with Trip Hawkins, the EA founder is extremely candid about the oft-stressful goings on inside of the company at the time. Sometimes, what was going on inside wasnt pretty. Sometimes, fisticuffs flew. And...
 
Tags: sega, sega genesis, 16-bit machine, machine, sega react, react, 8-bit nintendo, nintendo, sega mega drive
 
 
 
 
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Drill Down With Mr. Driller

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2008-03-14 13:43:27 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games for consoles: the instructions have sucked big time in everything from Pinball FX for the Xbox 360 to PixelJunk Monsters for the PS3. Here, you not only get basic rules; youll get to know all the power ups and treasure you can collect. So nothing will stymie you as you drill to victory and collect air capsules so you wont die of...
 
Tags: driller, collect, xbox, collect air capsules, xbox live arcade, driller online, online casual games, features screenshots, screenshots
 
 
 
 
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Hot Dance Party Almost Ready

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2008-03-14 13:42:27 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...game's contemporary background, elaborate design, and fashion & style, along with the introduction of new and innovative features, are expected to provide online game players an experience that they have never had before Hot Dance Party includes a number of new and unique features. One is the Make-up System, which allows players to practice...
 
Tags: hot dance party, dance, play, play dress, professional fashion designers, fashion, round eyes, final beta test, wanna play
 
 
 
 
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Two Cents: Bully 4 Bully 4 The Wii!

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2008-03-14 13:40:11 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games of the year at the Village Voice. It was a staggeringly giant game and I loved it not only because of the go-anywhere gameplay, but because of the wit within the story. Yeh, there was fighting. But there were touching moments full of the angst of childhood, private school style To make a literary analogy, it was more John Cheever than...
 
Tags: bully, wii, school, public school, columbia university snoots, school style, columbia, wii sports, upper middle class
 
 
 
 
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Punk-O-Matic Rocks, Oi

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2008-03-14 13:34:26 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...games on Kongregate these days is Punk-o-matic which even includes a Flash animated, R-rated comic with penguins called Dude! (Seriously, the words in the game are punky and raw: youve been warned). Basically, you can choose drum, bass and guitar sounds to make your own punk rock tune, not just as the spittin leader of the band, but as the...
 
Tags: punk-o-matic, punk rock tune, choose drum, guitar sounds, diner dash, top games, spittin leader, game, tracks
 
 
 
 
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Exclusive - Trip Hawkins Interview, Part 2

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