Tag Archives: games

Who will make today’s Pacman?

By Ian Delaney | Published July 14, 2009

I just read this from Brian Mitsoda (ex-Troika) on fave gaming site rockpapershotgun in an article about ‘which games made you the gamer you are’ and I agreed so furiously that a little bit of wee came out:

It’s impossible to separate my childhood from Pac-Man. If you were alive in the early 80s, you knew [...]

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The Consequences of Counting

By Ian Delaney | Published May 28, 2009

(Or, for those enjoying the puns, Nashional Guard.)
Every social media destination has some sort of scoring mechanism:

Twitter followers
Linked-In contacts
Facebook friends
Blog subscribers/comments

Those are the four I personally use most consistently, though I dip in and out of all the others to see what’s happening. They all have an equivalent.
What’s the result of those scores? Bigger is [...]

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Who Needs Advertising?

By Ian Delaney | Published December 6, 2008

When you have this sort of team on your side.

Only about 20 months late on this.
(And yes – I wish I could shut off that frickin’ tweeting from the Cooking Mama post below. I’ll replace the widget with a link v.soon.

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Mama’s Got A Brand New Bag

By Ian Delaney | Published December 3, 2008

What I imagine many readers are looking for from an English social media and technology blogger is an overdue Thanksgiving treat. So here you are:
<(delme)embed src=”http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/swf/cooking-mama.swf” width=”300″ height=”219″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” /> Widget deleted for noise pollution!
This is a cheeky bit of social media from US animal rights organisation PETA (full size and downloadable versions here). It’s [...]

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Serious Games and Things

By Ian Delaney | Published July 11, 2008

If you start a job as an oil rigger, then there’s a 50% chance you’ll have a reportable accident within the next six months. After that period, the risk drops to 5% or less, as you get to know the ropes.
That’s quite frightening for potential oil-riggers and for people in the oil and gas industry [...]

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Viral WoW

By Ian Delaney | Published July 2, 2008

Blizzard, the company behind the most successful and profitable entertainment franchise in the world*, World of Warcraft, held a mini-conference in Paris last week to announce that a second sequel to its Diablo series – Diablo III – was in development. Unlike a lot of press conferences, they invited along lots of fans, active forum [...]

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My Week in Media

By Ian Delaney | Published January 8, 2008

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…
Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly [...]

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