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Last night was crazy. I got to meet people who I admire in the industry: Geoff Keighley, N’Gai Croal, Pete Wanat, and Shadow Complex devs Donald and Laura Mustard.
Before doing so, though, I had to drive out to Los Angeles — an hour or so away from my humble home in Rialto, CA. My brother, [...]

Originally posted from Fast and Furious: A Shadow Complex Twit-Tale

Lillie Mae Macias. My beautiful daughter was born sixteen days ago in Redlands, California — not too far from her own father’s birth place, actually. Why, San Bernardino is but the next city over.
Yes, the city that in the last few years has risen up the ranks of the most crime-infested cities in the state. [...]

Originally posted from The Baby’s Cryin’!

Pilots are one thing — you know, since they shoot the “enemy” — but now doctors will benefit from video game playing, as well? I came across the above scan in a promotional flier at a local hospital in Redlands, CA earlier today. Personally, I don’t know if I’d trust a doctor looking into the [...]

Originally posted from The Next Frontier is Video Game Surgeries

Apple’s iPhone is a video player. A convenient way to download podcasts at the touch of a button. A media player subject to the owner’s “taste in music.” An ebook reader that lets you catch up on literature you’ve missed. And especially, much to the chagrin of many a hardcore player, a gaming device.
The iPhone [...]

Originally posted from iPhone, The Gaming Device

Considering how much glitz, glamour and towering publisher booths make up E3, it’s easy to see how one can miss out on the small gems. This, no doubt, was aided by the fact that this was my first E3 and I was a mere fly drawn to all the pretty lights.
Some of the biggest [...]

Originally posted from Missed E3 Opportunity: Scribblenauts

While my main goal for this year’s E3 was to meet as many industry peeps as possible (and play tons of pre-release games), Frankie and my brother, J-Rock, snuck in with a much more noble task: to find the hottest booth babes at the show.
After a couple of years of shunning the tradition to have [...]

Originally posted from E3 2009: Best Booth Babes

Four years after high school and a kid on the way, I finally graduated today for a two-year degree! Well…I’ve been “graduated” since February but today was the official day I could flaunt it, I guess. My degree is in “Behavioral & Social Studies” or something similar that doesn’t really translate to the “market” at [...]

Originally posted from GRADUATED: Can I Haz Job Now?

This past Sunday my girlfriend and I held a baby shower and over a hundred folks showed up. I didn’t know how much you all cared! Or, did you just show up for the free food? Hmmm. Anyway, Ariel and Adrian decided to gift us with quite possibly the most creative baby-preparin’ present of all: [...]

Originally posted from Apple Bottoms: Perfect Baby Gift?

Gaming and user-created content have been conceptually sound since the inception of each, but have never fully coalesced until recently. With upcoming titles boasting unique, player-generated experiences, gaming is approaching an era in which developers might assume more of a passive seat in directing the progression of the industry. However, if “choose-your-own-adventure” -style gameplay isn’t [...]

Originally posted from Top 10 User-Created Content Games

By: cmswire.com
Content to syndication service StudioNow takes its video system to the cloud to offer companies a complete package for selling video online.
StudioNow’s new Asset Management System (AMS) platform updates its original video content management service, moving it into the cloud where storage, automated transcoding, sales and delivery can all be handled without the need [...]

Originally posted from Cloud Based Video Asset Management and Syndication

By: adage.com
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It’s sexy these days for creatives to talk about data. And yesterday’s marriage of a major content-development platform with a major web-measurement company means analytics could soon be conceived right along with art and copy.
Adobe Systems announced last night that it will acquire web-analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion in [...]

Originally posted from What Adobe’s Omniture Acquisition Means for Advertising