It has been almost a year since I wrote anything game-related on this blog. Although this blog hasn’t been active, I have been doing things.
Category: Business and Industry
#1ReasonWhy: Thoughts and Link Round-Up
An interesting conversation thread happened on Twitter last week. Someone who works at Kickstarter as the specialist for games projects asked why there are so few women working in the games industry. It’s a huge question, one that seemed like a borderline troll question, given this person’s apparent disingenuous and condescending attitude in his follow-up tweets. Despite that inauspicious start,…
Guild Wars 2 Released!
We released Guild Wars 2 today to retail stores. Yes, the game is live! Even before the game was available on stores, pre-purchasers bought over 1 million copies, paying the entire amount for the game before the release date today. In another milestone, during the three-day early access period the game reached over 400000 simultaneous players online. There’s been some nice news…
Sony Brings E3 Home
These days, Sony is all about using PlayStation Home as much as possible to promote this that and the other product or event. This year, users could visit Sony’s E3 booth in PlayStation Home. One of the reasons I continue to check in on Home is to see how Sony and other companies are using the space. Like many Home…
Interview: Sylvia Liu, Winner of SOE GIRL Scholarship 2010
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) announced today that Sylvia Liu of Milpitas, CA won the 2010 GIRL Scholarship (Gamers In Real Life Scholarship). The scholarship encourages students toward career paths in the creative and applied arts, with the goal of developing videogames that attract more women to play. Liu’s $10,000 scholarship award will to be applied toward tuition and other…