Few video games reach trending topic status on Twitter. It’s the sort of thing normally accorded to disasters, celebrities and global news. NBA 2K11 has been a trending topic every day since Monday, for 57 hours straight at one point. More »
Dad, a newspaper publisher, always told me, “the news is what people are talking about.” Video games can be that, too, as we’ve seen lately with mobile or flash games based on much-discussed current events. More »
Jane Pinckard of game girl advance has come up with four future trends of entertainment, and they all apply to gaming — while her ideas aren’t necessarily ‘new,’ she does really boil down some of the tensions and innovations facing the industry right now. She points to four trends — tension between immersion and transparency, asynchronous instant communication, credible advertising with integrity, and tools as the content. This last issue is one that’s come up a lot, and I really like her take on it — the move from passive consumer to active user:
