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The Impending Crash Of The Videogame Console Market:

parislemon:

Natasha Lomas on how the numbers are shaping up so far in the gaming console space:

The thing is neither of these new generation console flagships is selling very well when compared with previous generations of flagship consoles. The console market appears to be shrinking significantly — and that’s evidently having a knock-on impact on games studios and game development.

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At this relatively early stage the new generation stacks up as follows: Wii U at 6 million, XB1 at ~4 million and PS4 at 6 million: a total of ~16 million. So only around 244 million to go — just to perform as well as the last generation. But with game budgets increasing a flat console market isn’t a good thing. This new generation needs to be outselling the last, not looking like it’s going to have a really tough time shipping the same.

I hate to say “I told you so” …but, well, I did.

Life Hacks: A Netrunner Story:

“‘It’s nerdy’ is a good reason not to try a lot of things, especially if they scare you.”

Leigh Alexander  tells stories about us, by telling stories about herself through telling stories about games; and she is so freaking good at it. 

The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird: “To understand Flappy Bird, we must accept the premise that games are squalid, rusty machinery we operate in spite of themselves.”

“Emergence is also chaos, and its charm is the beauty of a universe that could have be…

Noise (Core Set #001):

The Tumblr this comes from is just awesome. 

thenetrunnerproject:

“Shouldn’t you be hard at work? Heard you had some big stunt to pull off.”

Even if Noise couldn’t quite hear her sneering tone over the noise at Wildsyde – New Angeles’ fourth most crooked night out, according to NAPD stats – he knew it was there anyway.

All night long, Runners had been…