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Why Robin Makes Batman Better If Carillon GameTraders can make a MySpace page for its customers, there’s nothing to stop other GT outlets from doing the same.
Matt Cooper, assistant manager for GT’s Bundaberg operations, has put some effort into a page for his store. I’m assuming the deal is the same as Carillon’s – to make people aware of sales, offers and events. That, or a posting board for emo poetry about PS3 shortages or the gruelling experiences of working in retail.
Oh, I’m only kidding! Now, go make friends with an inanimate object.
GameTraders Bundaberg [MySpace]
We’ve all heard of GameTraders. It’s been breaking street dates since the beginning of time, and probably a little before then.
In order to keep customers up-to-date with tournaments, deals, offers and the like, the Carillon store has started a MySpace page. While I think Facebook might have been a better choice, MySpace is more than sufficient.
If you’re a fan of the independent retailer, it might be an idea to sign up. At the moment it doesn’t provide much, but Travis of GameTraders says he’s in the process of getting it up to scratch.
GT Carillon [MySpace]
So, you guys might know Obsidian’s Chris Avellone as one of the designers behind Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment. But it turns out he also has another talent that’s well worth checking out – he does rather hilarious game development-related cartoons on his MySpace blog.
One of his latest posts shows off the illustrations he did for Schizoid developer Bill Dugan’s talk on developer-publisher relations at the recent IGDA Leadership Forum in San Francisco.
Turns out they’re funny, pungent illustrations (including a swearword or too, warning) of how those pesky publishers and developers fight like dogs and cats living together – resulting in mass hysteria.
Torpex IGDA speech illustrations [Avellone's MySpace Blog.]
MySpace just announced a deal with Oberon Media that’ll see a gaming channel created for the service. Called MySpace games, it’ll allow anyone with a MySpace page to add casual flash games to their site. For anyone who has a little sister or knows a struggling high school indie rock band still using the service, tell them the games channel should be arriving sometime in 2008. MySpace in deal to let users play on-line games [Reuters]
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass hits stores on October 1st, and to honour the occasion Nintendo has created a Phantom Hourglass e-card, complete with an exclusive video of the game in action. They’ve also created a handy-dandy countdown widget on their Zelda.com site, suitable for MySpace pages and personal blogs alike. Two doses of Zelda goodness to keep you going until the big day.
Phantom Hourglass E-Card [Nintendo]
We apologise. It’s only rumour that EA is in possession of gigantic space lasers. However, if EA were in possession of said space lasers, Peter Moore would be aiming them straight at big sports business entities like ESPN and Nike, and community entities like MySpace and Facebook. There is a great opportunity to take EA Sports and turn it into a general sports brand that can compete not only with Take-Two and Konami and the other usual suspects in the videogame world…[but also]to look at ourselves in a different way and compete with the likes of Nike and ESPN to win the hearts and minds of a very desirable demographic group, which is the 14-to-34-year-old male worldwide.
So how do you do that?
All alone with a splitting migraine in Kotaku Tower while my daymates are getting drunk gathering the latest hard-hitting stories from the Games Convention in Leipzig, I crave any sort of humour I can find while plugged into the vast database of gaming goodness we have in KOTAKUVAK 2000, our AI research supercomputer, so when I ran across this internet ad found by a reader while trolling MySpace it elicited in me a titter, and in my condition a titter is worth a thousand words. Nice to see Microsoft and Sony put their differences behind them and let the cross-advertising loving begin. Thank you Sardu, for spreading the love.
Every day, millions of people log into MySpace to make bitchy comments and troll for naked pics in between surfing YouTube for more Charlie the Unicorn remakes. MySpace and YouTube are two of the biggest time-wasters on the internet in the US today, but according to research and analysis company Parks Associates, there is an even bigger one. Gaming. In a report entitled “Casual Gaming Market Update” the company found that while 19% of adult internet users spent their time on social networking sites and 29% watching short films (does porn count?), 34% spent their time playing video games. Hooray, we’re a statistic! “Despite the growing popularity of YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, gaming remains the king of online entertainment, driven largely by casual gaming activities,” James Kuai, a research analyst at Parks Associates, said in a prepared statement.
