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by Published on February 22nd, 2012 23:43- Categories:
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Alex Wiltshire, Edge's online editor, is hosting a roundtable discussion at next month's F2P Summit in London.
The topic for the panel is My Worst Mistake, with Wiltshire joined by Relentless co-founder Andrew Eades, Papaya Mobile founder Oscar Clark, and Matthew Wiggins, GM of Zynga Mobile UK.
They will each relay the design and business mistakes that inadvertently led to success, and explain the lessons learned from their time in free-to-play.
Elsewhere, Paul Bowen, European VP of mobile ad and monetisation firm Tapjoy, will share tips on how to maximise revenue on Google's mobile operating system in his talk, Making Money On Android: Numbers From The Field.
Andy Lane, event director, said: "Android development is a red-hot topic for the game industry: it recently overtook iOS and RIM for the number one position in market share among global operating systems, and nearly 500,000 new Android-enabled devices are activated every day.
"This session is an absolute must-attend for everyone involved in developing free-to-play game content."
The inaugural F2P Summit, the first UK event dedicated solely to free-to-play, takes place on March 28 at Rich Mix in London's Shoreditch. For more, follow the source link below.
Source: F2P Summit
http://www.edge-online.com/news/edge...summit-session
...by Published on February 22nd, 2012 23:40- Categories:
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New submitter egparedes points out a post dissecting webOS and highlighting the things it did right, in the hopes that developers for other mobile operating systems will use them as inspiration. Quoting:"webOS isn't quite dead yet. It's just being open-sourced, which, when it happens to commercial software, often turns out to be the digital equivalent of being reanimated as a walking corpse in a George Romero movie. ... Of course, it's not assured that this is the end of webOS. Maybe open-sourcing it will be the best thing that ever happened to webOS. But maybe it just means that HP doesn't care anymore, and that webOS won't receive much attention anymore. This would be unfortunate, because webOS is one of the few current mobile operating systems that are actually a joy to use. It's been hurt by HP's incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own. The least we can do now is to keep its best ideas alive, even if webOS itself won't make it."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02...s-should-steal ...by Published on February 22nd, 2012 23:35- Categories:
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On February 21st, The Blackberry Playbook finally received its long-promised overhaul. Called Playbook OS 2.0, this major upgrade provides native email and calendaring apps, limited support for Android applications (the developer has to repackage the app for the Playbook), and a bunch of other features. There are some fairly positive initial reviews, although one can no doubt expect a lot of too-little-too-late naysaying from various quarters as well. The Globe and Mail article also contains this somewhat interesting note: '...until RIM began deep discounting ... the device languished way behind rivals such as the iPad in terms of market share. One recent report by Toronto-based Solutions Research Group, however, pegs RIM's share of the tablet market at around 15 per cent, a big jump after discounting over the holiday buying season.'"ZDNet has some screenshots of the new features, and El Reg has a piece on an interesting bit of the new software.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/...os-20-released ...by Published on February 22nd, 2012 23:27- Categories:
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Europe 'most interesting region' in terms of innovation, claims new division head
Facebook has announced it will be adding a team dedicated to working with European games developers.
Facebook already has such a team in the US, and the move is designed to support the success of European developers like Wooga, King.com, Supercell and Nordeus, who have managed to secure their own niche in the market with games unique to those offered by social gaming companies like Zynga.
The European team will be focusing on teaching developers about Facebook's mobile applications platform, launched in October 2011.
Users can now find games through Facebook's mobile apps, giving developers new ways to advertise, and more opportunities to convert gamers into paying customers.
"In the US, we have a team of engineers, product managers and partnerships folks who only do gaming, from Zynga down to two-person shops. Now we're creating that same unit in Europe too," Christian Hernandez, director of EMEA business development and partnerships at Facebook, told The Guardian.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...ean-games-team
...by Published on February 22nd, 2012 23:24- Categories:
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Microsoft has revealed plans to abandon the "local-market feature" approach to languages in the upcoming Windows 8, instead allowing anyone to install any and all supported languages.
The situation with installing display languages in Windows has always been fairly restrictive, often needing a special version such as Windows 7 Ultimate, just to be able to display some other language.
In a new blog post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft said that Windows 8 would dump the confusing downloads of languages from Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center and instead languages will be more easily installed in the control panel.
Microsoft's international team manager Ian Hamilton highlighted the usage case of a PC in a fairly common US scenario where Spanish would be useful for parents while English would be for their children.
Windows 8 will also be the first version of Windows to support "English for the United Kingdom", ending 27 years of a refusal to acknowledge English spelling preferences in the long line of Microsoft operating systems.
"We admit that this is something we should have done a long time ago," wrote Hamilton. "Windows users in the UK have gotten by with the US English version of Windows, and while we Americans knew this was not their favourite, that is clearly no defence," he joked.
Hamilton noted that this English dialect would probably be used by a number of other countries including India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland. Well colour us surprised.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...english/027982 ...by Published on February 22nd, 2012 00:23- Categories:
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In response to Microsoft's claim that Google circumvented Internet Explorer privacy protections (following the discovery that Google also worked around Safari's privacy settings), Google on Monday said that IE's privacy protection, called P3P, is impractical to comply with."
http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/...is-impractical ...by Published on February 21st, 2012 23:54- Categories:
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Microsoft has unveiled plans to integrate the firm's cloud storage service SkyDrive with the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, similar to that offered by the integration of Apple's platforms and iCloud.
The company revealed that Microsoft has 17 million SkyDrive users that use the service ever month, adding up to 10 petabytes of data. In a new post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft described how a new "Metro Style" Windows 8 app would come with the OS as well as having SkyDrive files integrated into the desktop and viewable through Windows Explorer.
An 'early' version of the SkyDrive app will be including in the upcoming Consumer Preview version.
"One of the most powerful features in Windows 8 is the ability to integrate SkyDrive functionality across other apps using charms and contracts," blogged SkyDrive boss Mike Torres.
"SyDrive is available as a file picker, so from any app you’ll be able to open files from, and save files to your SkyDrive," he added.
Torres pointed out that any apps that open and save documents and photos will be able to save to the cloud-based SkyDrive without adding specific support. Rather like any number of other cloud storage services that appear as Windows folders and drives then.
Much of the blog post explains the benefits of SkyDrive integration with Windows 8 in terms of the rather obvious benefits of cloud storage which will already be familiar to the countless users of SkyDrive already, or third-party offerings such as Dropbox.
One unique aspect is that Microsoft is also going with a two-factor authentication scheme when accessing SkyDrive files from any other PC than a 'trusted PC'. The system will need a code sent to an alternative email address or text message phone number.
Unsurprisingly SkyDrive will also feature on Windows Phone, presumably as a platform exclusive although there have already been third-party SkyDrive client apps appearing for iOS and Android. Microsoft being Microsoft, we'd expect the tightest integration to occur entirely within the firm's own-brand software.
Microsoft also helpfully suggested that SkyDrive would be just the ticket for transferring files from earlier versions of Windows when upgrading to Windows 8.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...gration/027975 ...by Published on February 20th, 2012 21:58- Categories:
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Mojang is everyone's favorite studio to blindly throw money at these days, so it comes as little surprise that the Sweden-based Minecraft creators raised nearly $500K ($458,215.95) this past weekend during a live "game jam." The conceit was that Mojang would arrange a game jam (a "Mojam," if you will) and stream it live across 60 hours, with the resulting product being added to the most recent Humble Indie Bundle, as well as two games developed under similar constraints from Oxeye Game Studio and Wolfire Games.
What games did the three studios end up making? Mojang created an Egyptian/Steampunk-themed RTS slash shoot 'em up called "Catacomb Snatch," which we'll refrain from making lurid jokes about, while Oxeye made a game named "Fists of Resistance" and Wolfire made "The Broadside Express."
As over 81K bundles were purchased, the three studios collectively raised just under half a million dollars, all of which will be donated to Child's Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, charity:water, and the American Red Cross. Now, if you'll excuse us, we've got some lurid jokes to make in private.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/20/hu...k-for-charity/ ...by Published on February 20th, 2012 21:49- Categories:
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Microsoft's new Windows 8 logo ditches the Windows 'flag' that has been with the firm since Windows 3.1, choosing a new angled Window graphic similar to that used in the very first Windows operating system.
"Using bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes, the new logo has the characteristics of way-finding design systems seen in airports and subways," Microsoft said of the new Windows 8 logo which has caused no shortage of raised eyebrows.
"We did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original meaning and bringing Windows back to its roots - reimagining the Windows logo as just that - a window," wrote Windows user experience boss Sam Moreau on the Building Windows 8 blog.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/windo...he-past/091486 ...by Published on February 20th, 2012 19:30- Categories:
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'A lot of people are still approaching it in almost a pre-Internet fashion'
Free-to-play is a wake up call for the industry on game pricing models, Gabe Newell has claimed.
Speaking to Penny Arcade, the Valve boss said that more value can be created by involving customers into a game world rather than just extracting a high upfront fee, and it is something those in the industry should have adopted sooner.
“Pricing is one of those things where a lot of people are still approaching it in almost a pre-Internet fashion instead of seeing that there’s actually an opportunity to do a better job of delivering the right stuff to the right customer for the right combination of pieces,” said Newell.
“So if you look at free-to-play, that should be kind of a wake up call to everybody in our industry that we should have been able to figure that out sooner, that this realisation that a lot of customers create more value by being in the world than people were extracting by trying to charge them an upfront fee.”
Newell added that pricing structures should be seen “almost as a service opportunity”, with certain models offering discovery problems to customers turned off by high prices.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...l-wake-up-call
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