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Tag: innovation

innovation
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Getting Innovation Wrong

Don’t be fooled by 3D. Just … don’t. 3D is nothing more than an expensive experiment being carried out by the entertainment industry. ...
By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 3, 2011
Op-Ed

The Fallacy of MMO Innovation

This week’s release of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures underscores once again how incredibly difficult it is to launch a high-quality massively multiplayer ...
By Sean Sands Legacy AuthorMay 23, 2008
Dungeons & Dollars

Gaming at the Margins, Part 4

How do we break out of our best of times/worst of times situation and chart a course for the Promised Land that’s clearly ...
By Warren Spector Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2006
The Revolutionaries

A New Way To Play

On a date I’ll avoid mentioning, the world changed. Simply acting odd in an airport now might result in an off-record trip to ...
By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorApril 4, 2006
The Revolutionaries

Nintendo’s Power

A company’s narrative is equal parts public back story and manufactured idea created by the company’s image. By creating a theater in which ...
By Jon Schnaars Legacy AuthorApril 4, 2006
Ludo, Ergo Sum

Secret Agent Candy Man

Trip Hawkins is deep in a secure underground vault, standing in a telephone booth, talking into his shoe. This is probably not true. ...
By Dave Thomas Legacy AuthorMarch 14, 2006
Wanna Be My Friendster?

Attack of the Parasites

Many online game “communities” feel like those housing subdivisions spreading around every American city like carcinomas on a pancreas. I live in one ...
By Allen Varney Legacy AuthorFebruary 28, 2006
Fast Forward 2020

Escaping the Box: Innovation and Genres

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1985, the legendary gaming console was released, irrevocably altering the gaming ...
By Dana Massey Legacy AuthorAugust 9, 2005
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