HOW VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT HAS PROGRESSED OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS
Like everything else, it's now almost entirely about bald men in rooms looking at PowerPoint slides presented by Asian businessmen.
(fig a) Progress in the video game industry. Note serious use of word "penetrating". If you can't use the word "penetrating" without laughing a bit, this is not the career path for you.
Being the man who stands in the toilet at posh pubs handing out paper towels. Checking that the paper clips are OK. Lint Inspector. Deputy Carpet Examiner. Being the woman who folds the boxes shut on the production line.
A site about games and game paraphernalia and how nothing's as good as we remember it, probably because we used to inhabit a FANTASY WORLD.
MICRO-BLOG
What are we half-heartedly skimming RIGHT NOW? RECENTLY...
Each post .02% worse than the last. REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #14: A PHOTO OF FIFA 2005 ON G... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #13: MARIA SHARAPOVA REVIEWED!... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #12: AMAZON WISHLISTS REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #11: MASTER SYSTEM CONTROLLERS... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #10: SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT THE ... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #9: SOMETHING ABOUT JOHN LENNO... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #8: XBOX 360'S CLICHED MAIL-OU... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #7: THE PREDICTIVE TEXT CONUND... REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #6: A GAME CALLED 'YOGURTING' REJECTED IDEA WEEK! #5: NINTENDO'S RUBBISH US ADVE... THE HTML ERAS
When men used to till the pages by hand. |
SHOPS
Use our Play or Amazon Shops to buy those shit Wii games you secretly like, helping the effort. ARCHIVES
12 years of wheat and chaff in one vast and impenetrable mass. |
Some updates weren't universally hated by the entire world within seconds of being uploaded.
1. The Animal Crossing Wild World mega-feature and public-service review
2. Sonic CD - screenshot parade
3. Cream The Rabbit sexual diagrams
4. OutRun2 screenshot-taking guide for the benefit of inept journalists
5. The personal UKR SEGA Toys Homestar planetarium review
6. Trying to buy an Xbox 360 in London
7. (STILL) THE MOST AMAZING PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPH OF ALL TIME
8. A trip to GamesMaster (in Peckham)
Links to that blog of yours you started up and were excited about for a whole weekend.
FRIENDS
Some people we might've MET. Or at least seen in a room and been near. One Thousand Tiny Things I Hate "LIFESTYLE"
Other sites we are happy to officially endorse without requiring Adwords spend. PRIVACY POLICY
Having one is compulsory, apparently. Ours is here. It is not meant to be funny. |
ACQUAINTANCES
People off the internet. Quality and commitment levels may vary. |
It came with the template. Maybe in 2014 we'll jump on board the Twitter train and put that in here. Or a radio. That'd be nice.
Of course, you don't know what I look like but I'm there, jabbing myself with a sharpened pencil to stay awake.
The good news is he over ran by about 15 minutes, forcing a coffee break cancellation.
One day I'll have my revenge.
Still, it beat the EA talk on how successful games should have a 60 per cent focus on gameplay, presumably so the remaining 40 can be spent on licensed tracks everybody hates and paying for Tiger Woods' haircuts.