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More about sex and Sims II
The other day we noted that the advertising campaign for The Sims II seems to be predicated on four things: sex, sex, sex, and sex. Since then, Tama Leaver has picked up on this theme on his Ponderance blog, and added some very important observations, not the least of which is that it appears the [...]
Full Story30 Million down the toilet
Forbes.com has a very interesting article on the success of City of Heros, but along the way it drops this little nugget: “Cryptic thereby defies a troubling trend: Internet games, first ballyhooed as the next big thing, have struggled. Electronic Arts dropped perhaps $30 million (EA won’t confirm it) building, marketing and supporting Sims Online, [...]
Full StorySims 2 Marketing Campaign: sex sex sex sex sex
Faithful readers of the Herald know that we don’t like to discuss s-e-x, and only do so under duress, but the new advertising campaign by EA for the Sims 2 begs, pleads and grovels for attention and blogging. What we find fascinating is the conjunction of the new advertising campaign with EAs insistance that there [...]
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We’re going to see a lot of Will Wright as the Sims 2 release approaches, but this intereview in BBC Online is special because…well because Doc Pete is mentioned too! What does Will think about the shady side of virtual life?: “it makes the game more interesting.” We couldn’t agree more. Don’t miss the audio [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown to the TV Networks: We’re eating your lunch!
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown That smack talkin’ mack daddy of corporate “we pwnz u”- speak was at it again last month, this time claiming that the TV networks were history, cuz giant game companies already pwn the eyeballs of young males, and soon they will get the advertising dollars as well. [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown: Let the weeds burn!
I don?t even bother with the ?Jeff Brown spouts off again!? headlines, because, well what else *would* he do. *This* time the Vice President for Corporate Communications for The Borg gave an interview to the BBC wherein, in the words of Clickable Culture, he ?simultaneously begs for pity and declares an apocalypse upon smaller publishers.? [...]
Full StoryTigger Leaving EA/Stratics
Sorry for the delay in reporting this, but both I and our main board ho, The Phantom, have been offline for a week. The news is that Tigger, basically the only EA rep that ever communicates with the 40,000 some odd TSO players is leaving EA on August 20. Among the questions this raises, of [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown Spouts off again! You gamers are wasting your time.
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, addressing the Edinburgh International Games Festival Well, Mr. Uber-foot-in-mouth has outdone himself. This time, EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications Jeff Brown popped off at a gamers conference in Scottland, saying that gamers would be better off going out and mowing the lawn than … did he say play [...]
Full StoryWired News Investigates EA’s Ineptitude with MMOs
Daniel Terdiman, who broke the story of the Alphaville Elections into the infosphere not long ago has recently written a story on the string of failures that EA is racking up with online games. Casualties now include Motor City Online, Earth and Beyond, Ultima X, a scrubbed plan for a Harry Potter Game, and of [...]
Full StoryOMFG! EA Pulls plug on Ultima X
Wowzers! In news releases issued by EA after they pulled the plug on Earth and Beyond, EA said it was sending its E&B dev team to work on Ultima X — the much hyped 3D successor to Ultima Online. But now they have announced they are pulling the plug on Ultima X. Informed sources say [...]
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