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  • iPhone demographics

    Earlier this month, comScore released some of the first iPhone demographic data for the UK. Key points: 75% male Of those men, users are “mostly between the ages of 18-44“. (Love the accuracy of the statistic.) 93% of...

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  • Is Midway worth $30 million?

    Court documents suggest $30 million is a fair price for Midway. More likely, it’s a ceiling for the value of Mortal Kombat, and is unlikely to be achieved. Last month, creditors kicked up a stink about the...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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  • Review of The Big Picture, Money and Power in Hollywood, by Edward Jay Epstein

    The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood is billed as the story of “the real magic behind movie making: how the studios make their money”. It mostly succeeds, but if fails by being in thrall to...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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  • Job Loss Tracker goes interactive

    I spent too long over Easter playing with php and mysql, but the Job Loss Tracker is now fully interactive. Want to know how many American development jobs were lost in 2008? How about British publishers in...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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  • DLC – a weapon against trade-ins, even if it’s free

    Doing some research over the weekend, I came across this argument from 2007: “There are publicly-expressed tensions between Epic and Microsoft over the handling of downloadable content for Gears Of War (Microsoft Games Studios wanted to charge...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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  • Gamestop doesn’t discipline staff, it offers them “performance coaching”

    Kotaku is running a story about GameStop letting staff play games and then selling them as new. I’m struggling to get worked up about this. But I loved GameStop’s corporate speak. Kotaku quotes the company policy regarding...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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  • Feckless Dad buys 18-rated game for 12 year-old son, and finds Ecstasy inside

    The BBC reports today that Richard Thornhill bought a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for his 12 year old son on the Xbox 360, and was horrified to find four Ecstasy pills tucked away in the...

    • Posted 17 years ago
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