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Japan is a "Longer-Term Effort" for Microsoft, Says Shane Kim

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2008-06-14 05:08:13 by Chris in Gaming Today
...term effort and that Microsoft has always taken a long-term view on our various competitive battles, and Japan is no different Weve been very realistic about our near-to-mid term opportunities in Japan, specifically with respect to the current console generation, he told GI.biz shortly before his promotion was announced. Obviously its a...
 
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Zen of Design: Borrowing a Term from Jeff Freeman

2008-06-18 19:01:37 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...term to the Zen Lexicon (see sidebar). However, with the recent release of Spores Creature Creator , it seems only right to add a term by Jeff Freeman (who once wrote insightful game design posts before he started posting about random japanese social networking stuff The term is Time to Cock , which is, of course shorthand for the central...
 
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Borrowing a Term from Jeff Freeman

2008-06-18 22:52:03 by Damion in Zen of Design
 
...term to the Zen Lexicon (see sidebar). However, with the recent release of Spores Creature Creator , it seems only right to add a term by Jeff Freeman (who once wrote insightful game design posts before he started posting about random japanese social networking stuff The term is Time to Cock , which is, of course shorthand for the central...
 
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EA Posts Q3 Loss, Short-Term Pain is Necessary Says Riccitiello

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2008-02-02 01:02:19 by Chris in Gaming Today
...term pain is necessary for the company to enhance the quality of internally developed titles. He also said that hes willing to delay titles to ensure higher quality While we are the third-party quality leader we are not satisfied with where we are, said Riccitiello. We did not have any internally developed breakaway titles and no one of EAs...
 
Tags: pain, riccitiello, short-term pain, revenue, record revenue quarter, pain temporarily, loss, revenue quarter, third-party quality leader
 
 
 
 
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Spore is a long-term franchise

2008-07-11 17:22:27 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...term plans for Spore. So I think that EA is giving this, not in terms initially of what this project is going to do, but as something thats going to become a long-term franchise for EA and be one of the big things that EA is known for. For the first product, I think its important to just put our best foot forward. I dont think theyre obsessed...
 
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Massively: Activision Blizzard locks down senior management with long-term deals

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2008-07-11 15:33:51 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...term contract extensions--both to shore up a sense of security for the owners over the long term, but also to demonstrate in straight forward monetary terms how much they mean to the team. This is not quite unlike what has happened over at Activision-Blizzard, where the senior talent at Blizzard has signed five-year contracts with the company...
 
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Activision Blizzard locks down senior management with long-term deals

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2008-07-11 15:30:00 by Chris Chester in Massively
...term contract extensions--both to shore up a sense of security for the owners over the long term, but also to demonstrate in straight forward monetary terms how much they mean to the team. This is not quite unlike what has happened over at Activision-Blizzard, where the senior talent at Blizzard has signed five-year contracts with the company...
 
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PopCap hates the term casual

2008-07-23 21:40:14 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...term casual, and Im not going to defend it. - PopCap VP of videogame platforms Greg Canessa I dont get itwhats so bad about the term? What else are we supposed to call this genre of games? Its definitely a genre, and it deserves to be defined. Check out more of Mr. Canessas comments here
 
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Blu-ray won't give PS3 a long-term competitive edge, claims Olin

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2008-08-28 10:18:03 by Jim Sterling in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...term advantages, in the long run it won't matter I look at Blu-ray being the obvious short-term differentiator, but if everything goes to digital download -- and over time, it will -- then the Blu-ray device no longer has the same competitive advantage, or the benefit is not as strong as the feature is," stated Olin. The AIAS president...
 
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Sony questions long term effect of 360 price cut

2008-09-05 19:36:27 by morriss in videogaming247
 
Speaking to Gamasutra in the wake of yesterdays 360 price cut, Julie Han of Sonys corporate communications admitted that the drop would see an upturn in sales, but questioned its long-term impact. Well obviously see the natural lift [in sales] with the price cut, but how sustainable is that in the long term? she asked. Were
 
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