Copy of Paste: The Reusing

    As the holiday season approaches video game studios are pumping out their new investments. Enter Call of Duty: Ghost by Activision, which as of now has sold more than $1 billion on its first day out. Now there is impressive no matter how you look at it. However, being the big franchise that Call of Duty is, it must put a lot of pressure on a company to produce a high quality game.

Planning for Business

    Earlier in the month I took a look at two experts in the world of business plans, Carl Schramm and Chuck Blakeman. These gentlemen had decidedly different views on how to deal with business plans, and took into account what they both had to offer. While Carl was in favor of small business plans, Chuck said that there is no need to have one.

Opposing Plans

          Starting a business is likely one of the toughest choices one will have to make. It involves a lot of planning and research before the business is even launched. Along with that, a potential business owner needs to find the capital in order to get their business off the ground. So to get the capital, one needs to find investors. However, to get investors a solid business plan is required to help sway the investors into lending out the money that is needed.

Half-Dead 3: Steamy Valve

    It looks like Valve is back at it again with tease its fan base about upcoming releases. Valve just stated that it has three big announcements. Their teaser site currently has a countdown, which ends on Monday. What these announcements are anyone’s guess, but the saying it has three is leading something to think it could be tied to its Half-Life or Left 4 Dead

Opening the Valve

    In 2007 Valve released the long awaited squeal to Team Fortress Classic, simply named Team Fortress 2. This online game features two opposing sides (Red vs Blue) in a never ending war with each other. At first launch, Team Fortress 2 was a simple first person shooter that had the standard capture the flag and defense type maps. Soon after Valve began to update the game and started including unique weapons that plays could unlock and use. Each weapon having its own unique abilities, but what Valve did next was expected by no one.

An Eye On Gaming

    With my recent post dealing with the Rift and virtual reality, I felt it was an opportune time to have a look into Google Glass.

    Google has been developing a wearable mini display that allows the user to watch and record videos, take pictures, make phone calls, send text messages, view emails, and more. What Google has not truly touched on, is the use of video games being played on the device. Google Glass has the potential to expand the mobility of video games.

A Tear in the Rift

    In the world of video games, developers and console makers are adding in the use of motion controls to their hardware and video games. Nintendo kick started this craze with the introduction of the Wii system. Soon after, both Sony and Microsoft release their own version of motion based controllers. Microsoft even took it a step further and got rid of all physical controllers and developed the Kinetic, a camera based motion controller.