I’m pretty sure everyone’s on board with this, but maybe not:  Why is it every time Rockstar or Take 2 publishes a game, the media or “concerned citizens” get their panties in a bunch and leagues of people come forward to condemn the game?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Take 2 has come to depend [...]

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Allow me to get a little personal for a moment.  I’ve always hated the question in the title.  It comes up at weddings, meeting new neighbors or friends of friends, and as recently as this morning, getting your hair cut, which is what reminded me to talk about it here.
Now, it’s no secret I’m an [...]

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So, by now you’ve heard the news that Devil May Cry 4 for the PS3 has a 20-ish minute install right off the bat after you’ve put the platter in the tray.
There’s a few schools of thought on this, from “wah, it’s no big deal,” to “you’d have to do this if it were a [...]

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Oh good god no. Mark DeLoura wrote a nice piece in The Escapist asking “What if Everyone Could Make Videogames?” It’s a nice, lofty thinktank piece, but it never really answers its own question.
The question is “What if” but is written in the aspect of “How Can We Make it So…” Two [...]

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So check this out, suburban newspaper Beacon News is claiming that local music and guitar stores in their area have been seeing an upsurge of interest in both music and learning how to play music, and the reason for this is, wait for it, Guitar Hero.
I guess even the local “alternative” radio station in the [...]

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If you aren’t familiar with the whole ignorantly punned “seXbox” lameness that’s been making the rounds, go get caught up before we continue.
Okay, so folks paid attention to the entire news clip that aired on Fox with Kieghley taking on Cooper Lawrence, an inept scaremongering panelist and clueless psychologist.  It turns out Cooper’s real motivation [...]

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Since I don’t see a lot of movies or TV shows much anymore, games are pretty much my only exposure to music. Stuntman got me hooked on Overseer before I’d heard it anywhere else, and hell, I just bought a Flyleaf track off of iTunes after playing it in Rock Band.

So I wonder if there’s an additional revenue stream for the games/music industry to be had here. Does anyone else listen to/buy game music? Would you want to have access to it on services like iTunes?

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In light of how used games is hamstringing this industry, Rock Band could be the mighty carrot that gets people to start paying very real attention to Direct Downloads. I have so far downloaded roughly $20 worth of songs (and I’m not even grabbing every song). If this pace keeps up, I will have downloaded an equivalent amount of merchandise to buying an expansion game within the next month. EA could feasibly wind up netting two, three, even four times their normal single title revenue with DLC, and completely bypass the brick and mortar outlets for everything past the initial sell-in, guaranteeing a revenue stream which cannot be sold used.

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