Post Tagged with: "gaming"
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Nolan Bushnell ‘applauds’ GDC for rescinding his award amid #MeToo
Silicon Valley pioneer and co-founder of Atari was known to have cultivated a party-like work culture.
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Backlash against SXSW for canceling gamer panel
BuzzFeed, the media company, has reportedly threatened to withdraw from SXSW, the March music and technology festival, over organizers’ decision this week to cancel two panels related to gaming and […]
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Fighting words: Criticism of video games and gamers
The video game industry is still talking about the violent threats made against Anita Sarkeesian, a video game critic, who alerted the police last week and went into hiding, according […]
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Elevator Pitch: Charles Hudson of SoftTech VC
Palo Alto’s SoftTech VC is hardly your typical venture capital firm. Its founder, Jeff Clavier, is French. The firm helped pioneer the “micro VC” trend, bridging the gap between angel […]
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Quoted: on NSA spying, virtual worlds and the future of privacy
“Possibly in the future you’ll no longer be permitted to be who you think you are, or even who you’re pretending to be: You will be who they say you […]
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Elevator Pitch: IDG’s Phil Sanderson on how Zynga tanked the gaming industry
Phil Sanderson runs 100-mile road races for fun. It’s probably an apt metaphor for a venture capital career that began in the heart of the dot-com bubble and has survived […]
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Quoted: on how the video-game industry watches, hooks players
“At this point, every major gaming company worldwide either has in place a fully developed business intelligence unit or they’re in the process of building one.” — Ramin Shokrizade, game […]
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Quoted: on Microsoft’s do-over on Xbox restrictions
“Even the flip-flopping on this, even though it’s a good sign, it does paint a picture of a corporation that doesn’t know what it’s doing.” — Pete Dodd, a gamer […]
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Quoted: on Anki’s Drive, a robotic car-racing game controlled by an iPhone
“A little drama is perfectly fine as long as it works out. It took me like half the rest of the show to stop shaking. I mentally snapped back into […]
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Tech issues: No room at the LinkedIn for prostitutes; Square bans gun sales; Nintendo game and gay marriage
Today we’re rounding up tidbits of tech “issues” from this week, from guns to prostitution to gay marriage: • LinkedIn doesn’t want to be the network for the world’s oldest […]
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