Independent User-Creation Podcast Now Live
(Visited 3365 times) Game talk
Aug 172007
MyePets kills puppies
(Visited 9402 times) Game talk
Aug 172007
Matt Mihaly reports that you can buy treats for your virtual pet dogs. Such as chocolate.
Don’t try this at home, folks.
How to donate for Peru earthquake victims
(Visited 9147 times) Misc
Aug 172007
International appeal:
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an international appeal for donations. (The actual appeal here; it’s a PDF). You can donate online and select to direct funds to this disaster in particular.
In the U.S.:
- call 202-462-1081 or 202-462-1084 or 202-462-1085.
- The Red Cross is accepting donations: 1-800-RED-CROSS, or for Spanish, 800-257-7575.
- Also, all donations at St. Matthew’s in Washington DC this weekend will be going to victims.
- There’s also a Wells Fargo account you can donate to at any Wells fargo bank, but it’s unclear to me whether this is a Utah initiative or national. There seem to be multiple Utah initiatives.
- And in Arizona, there’s this.
- ReliefWeb has a situation report and a press release about sending aid.
The decline of the gaming magazine
(Visited 4333 times) Game talk
Aug 172007
MCV has stats on how print mags are doing in the UK, and it tells an interesting story. Basically, all the Playstation magazines are in decline, and the Nintendo and XBox mags are on the rise.
But declining along with the PS mags, alas, are the PC mags, despite the fact that PC gaming is going great guns (see the last article I posted).
Online games > online video > social networking
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Aug 172007
That’s what a new study by Parks Associates reports, according to several sources yesterday. The unit of measure seems to be frequency of use, and the stat is that 34% of US Internet consumers play an online game at least once a week. (Compare to social networking services at 19%). What’s more, the growth rate in casual games is also much faster than SNSes — 79% YoY. But video is the fastest growing segment.
