Been a while since I mentioned any of the books I’ve been reading… the last post was a month ago. Here’s some of the stuff I read in that month, with very brief reviews.
Some recent reading
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Are single-player games doomed?
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Feb 102006
The entire video game industry’s history thus far has been an aberration. It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
— me, at the Churchill Club
Well, that one set the cat among the pigeons…
Churchill Club press
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Feb 102006
There are a few articles out there today regarding the CHurchill Club panel I was on yesterday. Excerpts:
Audition hits 400,000 concurrent in China
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Feb 092006
Remember when I wrote about the dance game Audition? Word is that it has hit 50 million registered users in China, with peak concurrency of 400,000.
A pain in the neck
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Feb 092006
I mean that literally. I woke up yesterday with a stiff neck (though some might claim that’s my natural condition!) and it gradually wore away during the day after a hot shower and moving gingerly for a day. But this morning, I awoke in this San Jose hotel room at 5am barely able to move my head.
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