Week 7 – 10/15/14: “What’s it all about…EULA?” & Don McGowan
Thanks to Don McGowan of The Pokemon Company for coming up from Seattle and braving a very long wait getting through the tunnel on his way back. The fears around whether Don was mic’d or no proved somewhat exaggerated, though not completely so. The microphone worked fine through most of Don’s talk but then turned […]
Week 8 Guest Speaker: Andy Moore
Andy Moore will be joining us as next week to talk about the future of games, the games industry and the role of “indy developers”. Andy is a programmer by trade (but a teacher at heart), and has helped game studios and other digital-media companies as a consultant, contractor, and specialist; focusing in the […]
$19,000 to play League of Legends.
I spotted this on my newsfeed this morning and jokingly sent it to my brother (an avid gamer who’ll hopefully be off to university in a couple of years). Robert Morris University has offered a huge scholarship (up to $19,000) for people to play League of Legends. A quick Google search told me that RMU’s […]
News of the Week; October 15, 2014
GAMES 1. What Is Gamergate, and Why Is Intel So Afraid of It? + ‘Massacre’ threat forces Anita Sarkeesian to cancel university talk + Brianna Wu is latest dev threatened and driven out of home + Gamergate’s vicious right-wing swell means there can be no neutral stance + “There is a literal war in this industry on women” – Wu […]