China’s online market grows by 40%
Who still thinks of the current economic climate when it comes to gaming? China certainly doesn’t! Revenues are up 39,5% in Q2 of 2009, with the first two places in terms of market shares going to Tencent Holding, operating China’s largest online messaging platform and Shanda Games who both hold about 20% of the market. Read more…
Guitar Hero makes download revenue interesting
In an interview with Gamingindustry.biz, Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosensweig elaborates on one of the biggest IP’s in the business and its latest installment; Guitar Hero 5. Most worth noting is the fact that he considers the download revenue entering the ‘interesting’ level by each month being record-breaking over the last. Read more…
The new Xbox; 720
Microsoft will continue its partnership with AMD in providing the processing power inside the Xbox console for its new upcoming console released in 2012. A post on Fudzilla also speculates on a 2012 release, even though I noted earlier that Activision’s CEO believes we will have to wait longer. Read more…
Directly selling of uncommon products
Some weeks ago I made a post about a french artist; Francoise Nielly and her art. On her website she not only shows her art she also has a webshop where you can buy it directly from the artist! I believe this has a future, even more so, this allows artists all over the world to be discovered. Why? Read more. Read more…
How grief works
Not really appropriate, but I ran into this text in a book I was reading. The characters talk about grief:
Grieve without reservation or embarrassment until you can grieve solemnly and inwardly, and then finally hang up your tears and wear them only occasionally, as befits the true men of the hear. Grief is not a thing to be ashamed of or suppressed. Nor yet is it a thing to cherish. Feel it, inhabit it, and leave it behind. It is right, but it is not the end.
From the book The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. And yes, that’s the second quote I get from this book.
Apple App Store; 2 billion downloads
Short stats from Apple’s propaganda desk after 14 months of App Store:
85,000 apps in the store
50 million iPhone and iPod Touch devices sold
125,000 developers
Launched in July 2008
Vanquishing strangers boosts testosterone
The discussion goes back and forth, this time it’s a suggestive title that might imply needless aggression. Which is not it; researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia linked the testosterone levels to whether or not the gamer knows his opponent. Read more…