You might start seeing new sigs cropping up. Playerep is a new service that is in beta. Tiny still, but a good idea.
The arts in MMOs
(Visited 13324 times)AGC speakers announced
(Visited 6225 times)World of Warcraft’s Rob Pardo, Michael Dell, and Hugo Winning Author Vernor Vinge Headline Austin Game Conference on September 6-7-8, 2006, says the press release. I’ll be there doing a couple of things — I believe I said yes to being on the “rant” panel, and I am also supposed to do a talk inspired by a lot of the discussions here, regarding dinosaurs in the industry and how shifting business models may result in everything changing.
The conference is smack on top of my birthday, so I hope that some of the attendees start planning a surprise party now, since my family won’t be with me…!
Stats & plugins
(Visited 6711 times)I still need to do the monthly report post, but in the meantime, Kristen and I wasted some effort and whipped up a page that gives blog stats and info.
Read on for the gory details.
Improving Game Marketing
(Visited 14928 times)Morgan points us to a study done on improving game marketing (PDF) and the resultant Grimwell Online thread.
The highlights alone, as extracted by Morgan, are worth quoting in their entirety, so I shall shamelessly do so: