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UK rating system gets even simpler

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2008-10-28 20:24:52 by Matthew Razak in That VideoGame Blog
...simpler is if someone came with every game and yelled the rating at you every time you picked it up In all honesty I doubt all those parents who were ignoring previous rating systems are going to pay attention to this one. The rampant purchasing of inappropriate games by childrens parents will continue on until dumb people stop breeding which...
 
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Sony shrinks Blu-ray lasers and cuts costs

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2008-01-25 06:54:00 by One Gamer in Video Games News: Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and Nintendo Wii
...simpler manufacturing process that will yield dividends in mass production Developed jointly with Nichia of Japan, the new laser unit is just 3mm thick and should help manufacturers miniaturise the hardware in their Blu-ray drives. Sony says it imagines the device ending up in 9.5mm laptop drives sometime this year Cost savings come from...
 
Tags: blu-ray, sony, cost savings, 5mm laptop, 3mm thick, mass production, yield dividends, blu-ray readerwriter module, slimmer drive bays
 
 
 
 
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GDC: Baer, Alcorn Talk 'Brown Box' Beginnings, Industry Birth

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2008-02-27 08:00:54 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...simpler to build than a model Gundam. They were also a cultural phenomenon. Baer showed off an advertisement that read Big Money in Radio become a Radio Serviceman! Hey, the young Baer realized. I think this could be me. So he spent the next few years dangling off roofs, installing wires through peoples windows Then came the 1939 Worlds Fair,...
 
Tags: alcorn, baer, alcorn feels, alcorn split, bushnell hired alcorn, baer moved, ralph baer, medical electronics company, electronics
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Console 07/02/08 - Kirby 64

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2008-03-08 01:16:38 by James Lyon in Wii Wii
...simpler than that. Actually, Wikipedia informs us that when Kirbys first game was being made, the pink blob was a hastily drawn placeholder, scheduled to be replaced by an actual character later. Somehow he survived That is even simpler than that If youre not so bothered by mascots that took two minutes to design, though, then perhaps you...
 
Tags: kirby, kirby game, game, character, actual character, virtual console, visit wii wii, playable character, pink blob
 
 
 
 
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WorldIV: MMO Music

2008-04-29 09:56:15 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...simpler more repetitive phrasing. I think this made the music more iconic more likely to be remembered As an example, listen this track, the theme from Nujelm in Ultima Online . Its simple and beautiful. Listen to it a few times and Ill wager youll hear it in your head the remainder of the day Some of the music in LotRO (example, the theme...
 
Tags: music, mmo music, remember mmo soundtracks, mmo soundtracks, beautiful, beautiful music, mmo, worthless music, soundtracks
 
 
 
 
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WakeUp Clock v2 - straightforward, alarm-armed timekeeping for PSP

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2008-06-30 21:52:51 by Ceasar S. in PSP Updates
...simpler way RIGHT SHOULDER RIGHT SHOULDER LEFT and RIGHT - The key combo to change the hours of the clock, if you still don't want to do it the simpler way LEFT SHOULDER - For preparing and calibrating the MP3 file. You could use this to browse for another target MP3 sound track. There's no readme for this homebrew application, but if you...
 
Tags: clock, wakeup, arm wakeup clock, wakeup clock, psp, ordinary alarm clock, psp development forums, psp owner, shoulder
 
 
 
 
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Analysis: What Activities Can Be Turned Into Games?

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2008-07-23 16:00:09 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...simpler skills 2. Skills can be nested 3. Skills can be arranged in a smooth learning curve 4. Skills are measurable 5. Performance can be rewarded 6. Skills are locally useful Let's look at these one by one 1. Decomposable into simpler skills Complex learnable skills can be broken down into sets of easily acquired core skills. Players can...
 
Tags: game design, understands game design, game, game design skill, skills, easier skills, games, core skills, measure complex skills
 
 
 
 
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Guest Column: Is Casual Killing the Core? PAX panel

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2008-09-03 07:15:21 by HASH0x8bf5998 in Infendo - Nintendo blog
...simpler Do high end 3-D graphics still matter Should the focus of multiplayer be cooperative or competitive I feel that these questions do not get to the heart of the issue, and I would have gone with different questions. The answer to all four of these questions is it depends on the game. and that was pretty much what the panelists said...
 
Tags: core games, fewer core games, core, hardcore gamers, hardcore, budget core games, gamers, angry core gamers, casual
 
 
 
 
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My take on console MMORPGs

2008-11-04 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...simpler, and worked with a lot less buttons and minimal communication, would be perfectly feasible The third problem is the business model. One important reason why there are so many more video game consoles than gaming PCs (not counting office PCs) is that a console is still significantly cheaper than a PC good enough to play modern video...
 
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Opinion: Why Street Fighter IV Could Fix Fighting Games

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2007-12-17 16:56:22 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life