GameSpy Tech at Catalina
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The GameSpy Tech team took a little team-building trip to Catalina Island. We departed from Newport Beach and spent the day living the lazy island life. Continue reading
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GameSpy Holiday Rock Fest
Our holiday party is typically the one time of year when our mostly t-shirt and jeans crowd actually puts on collared shirts or – gasp – a dress. In addition to the “adult” dress-up we also did a little make believe dress-up for our Rock Band competition. Continue reading
Online Matters
Last week at work we silently launched “Online Matters” our game developer focused blog. After launching a corporate blog what else could one do? Oh, how about be on a podcast? Yep. Posted that this week, too. Continue reading
Look, I’m A Bigwig
My little panel at OGDC got picked up on a few websites, probably due to the General Manager of Xbox Live and a VP from Real Arcade being involved but I thought this quote was rather funny… Continue reading
Guitar Hero II: For The Children
There were endless complaints about the Guitar Hero II controller for the Xbox 360 from people at work, all of whom are Guitar Hero freaks. To put a common complaint (“built for toddlers”) to the test I enlisted the help of real, live toddler research subjects. Continue reading
IGN/GameSpy is Born
Yesterday was the last day for GameSpy Industries and the beginning of something all new: IGN/GameSpy. Check out the press release discussing the new company. Some frightening numbers:
- IGN/GameSpy websites reach 25 million unduplicated, unique visitors per month and had nearly 1 billion page views in January 2004
Merger in the Works
Rumors were swirling before Thanksgiving, but we all discounted them. Now it looks like there was a little truth to those rumors! Mark announced yesterday that GameSpy and our rival IGN intended to merge. Together we’ll be the largest gaming-related site on the Internet.