I’ve mentioned the Temeraire books before — now news hits that Peter Jackson has optioned them. Here’s hoping something comes of it.
Sep 142006
Very good Iron Realms interview
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Sep 142006
Text isn’t dead, dammit. And proving it is Iron Realms, makers of Achaea and other games. PlayNoEvil has posted a great interview with principal Matt Mihaly that explains how these games work.
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Steam becomes more of a publisher
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Sep 142006
I should have just consolidated all of today’s posts into one — because they are all things that were in my talk. I mentioned at the end of the talk that it wasn’t prognostication, it was happening right now, and so far today I’ve blogged a major media conglomerate launching an MMO outside of media channels, PC-console convergence, and now, .a digital distribution system becoming an alternate publishing channel for AAA games that didn’t quite hit the way the retail publisher wanted them to.
Speaking of consoles becoming more like PCs….
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Sep 142006
That was one of the conclusions I had in my Age of Dinos talk. Well, looks like the Wii features avatars out of the box, and you can import them into any number of games — or take them to your friends’ house to play in their games. As well as weather, news, always-on functionality, message boards, messaging to cell phones, a calendar system, and Opera for browsing, of course.
Pangya/Albatross coming to Wii
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Sep 142006
Even a cursory glance at the new Wii preview shows the astonishing breadth and depth of the intended library. Cooking, table tennis, Sonic, pool, FPSes, baseball, it just goes on and on.
And in the middle I noted Pangya Golf, known in the US as Albatross 18. I wonder whether it’ll actually make use of Pangya’s connectivity? If so, that’ll be one of the first full-on applications of the Korean “casual game” model to consoles.
