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18 things I learned while attending E3 2010. Also, some photos.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | Comments (21)
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A quick post on a panel I attended about games in libraries. There are questions at the end. You can answer them if you want to.
Observations of the E3 2010 show floor, advertising, and the lack of coffee tables. And, as usual, photos.
The Lucha Libre AAA 2010: Héroes Del Ring both at E3
My contribution to the controller challenge. In pictures. I'm not very good at following directions.
A selection of photos from PAX East 2010.
Brian describes his PAX East experience the way any good geek should: by crunching some hard numbers. Check out his tabulation of cosplayers, consoles, and impromptu a cappella and see how they match against yours.
I'm going to PAX East. Rather than write out my packing list, I photographed it. Well, some of it.
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An article about choice in Mass Effect grows too big for its britches and becomes a list of choices in games.
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." It's a bold statement that opens the eponymous essay in Joan Didion's The White Album, first published in 1979. When the Everyman's Library put together an anthology of her nonfiction in 2006, that sentence was chosen as the title from over 1100 pages of words.
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Photos of video game boxes in the snow.
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One gamer's personal reasons for building a video game collection. What are yours?
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Examining the state of game strategy guides, both online and print. With bonus hot pix of the Star Wars: TIE Fighter official guide!
COMMENTS BY THIS AUTHOR (27)
"Congrats, all!

And, wow, thanks..."

Sunday, February 20, 2011
"It's kind of a bizarre setup when the retailer can provide meaningful competition to the distributor of a product by reselling said product.

You could argue that it's killing the golden egg-laying goose, but maybe there's something terminally wrong with the goose.

Maybe huge-budget games that require massive investments and therefore large sales numbers at a $60 price point just don't have the market to support them. It's not like a movie where you have the domestic take, the international take, DVD/video sales, rentals, and broadcasts to recoup your costs over the long term."

Monday, August 30, 2010
"Way Forward's A Boy and His Blob has a "hug" button."
Friday, July 23, 2010
"Resources about video game history (physical archives, online information repositories, etc):

International Center for the History of Electronic Games: http://www.icheg.org/ (as featured in this GameSpy article: http://uk.gamespy.com/articles/106/1064646p1.html)

ICHEG's collection: http://www.museumofplay.org/collections/online/index.php?m=4

Computer and Video Game Archive (University of Michigan): http://www.lib.umich.edu/computer-video-game-archive

CVGA Research Guide: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/content.php?pid=102325&sid=769697

 

And disengage librarian mode."

Friday, July 02, 2010
"PS - nice work, everyone!"
Thursday, July 01, 2010
"Ahh! PAX East line photo! PAX East line flashbacks!"
Thursday, July 01, 2010
"You push forward on the stick or mouse, it moves the top of the headcamera forward, which causes the facelens to point down.

Makes PERFECT sense."

Thursday, June 24, 2010
"Thanks, everyone!

@Rob - I'd say, but that would be tellin"

Thursday, June 24, 2010
"Alejandro, I really didn't want to be walking around the floor with one of Brett's shoes.

Jason, I've found my photos (more at btphotographer.com/e32010.photoessay !) have necessitated lengthy explanations of things to my non-gaming friends."

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"I tried to play the AC:Bro demo without inversion, and I just couldn't do it, so I had to jump out of the game for a bit and invert.

I would have taken first place if it weren't for that, I bet."

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"Hey, what about that one Pac-Man game with the built-in cup holders?"
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"Thanks.

It's really weird to open a magazine and see your face as part of the art in the table of contents.


Like, really weird."

Saturday, May 29, 2010