In Regards to Portal 2 Being Delayed
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Hey, it’s Thunderpudd’s kid. I might be posting here every now and then, but I’ve got my own gaming blog. Anyway, I made this song after I heard about Portal 2 being delayed until 2011. It’ s a parody of Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton.
Do You Remember Working Designs?
If not your likely either too young or not “hardcore” enough. You see back in the day (the early 90′s days) when gaming was still living high off the successful rebirth for the industry thanks to Nintendo, other companies wanted to get a piece of that pie here in the good ol’ US of A. So along comes the Genesis which was doing what Nintendon’t as well as a much smaller player in the form of the TurboGrafx 16. What made this competition awful and great all at the same time was the shear number of games that these companies were releasing to fight for our consumer dollars. Given that US development was much smaller then than now many companies simply published Japanese developed games.
Music Games Losing Steam? Rock Band Fights Back with Community Songs Network!
Posted 7/22/09In what should really be of no surprise to anyone, analysis of the music game genre shows that sales are tapering down with a steady decline. Gamasutra gives us a little insight to details of the decline, showing that “U.S. Guitar Hero/Rock Band revenues are down 49% year on year, as discounted hardware and over 20 SKUs flood the market.” according to data from the NDP Group.
Honestly, if the makers of Rock Band and Guitar Hero didn’t see this coming they should have their market research teams go back to school. With the glut of “Band” and “Hero” spin offs, expansions and sequels, combined with all the knock off wannabe rhythm games being passed on to less savvy consumers it was simply inevitable.
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