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Even though 3.4 billion people play video games—and even though the industry is larger than the music, box office, and sports industries combined—gaming still gets a lot of eye-rolls. For many people, gaming conjures the image of a teenage boy isolated in his mom’s basement. The reality is that the average age of a U.S. gamer is 35; that close to h... See more
Rex Woodbury • Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money
Megan Sauercnbc.com
For the @guardian, I tracked down a bunch of real life rollercoaster designers to ask them how one of my favourite games - Rollercoaster Tycoon - changed their lives.
I also spoke to the game's creator, Chris Sawyer, and Atari's CEO. Proud of this 1:
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Thomas Hobbs (at Gamescom)x.comI think @austinnotduncan had the best Switch 2 hands-on coverage of the day. You can definitely tell those who play games and know handheld PCs vs those who do not. Worth a watch for sure! https://t.co/mRUnZ6GWks
Quinn Nelsonx.comKessel went on a fact-finding mission to Silicon Valley, meeting with hardware experts from Apple and Palm and with executives from the famed industrial design firm Ideo.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Sony earns a cut of the sales of third-party games on PlayStation, which of course it gets to keep with first-party games – meaning that its own games can justify very large budgets more easily, as they generate more revenue per unit sold. A further justification for taking this kind of risk on high development costs is that the games themselves se... See more
Rob Fahey • Redaction errors reveal the economics of exclusivity | Opinion
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook engineer, told me. “That sucks.”
Ashlee Vance • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
.@mitchlasky re: "Investing in content"
(2012, Blog Archive) https://t.co/fnOgqoROCK