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My first experience on a game development team was truly eye opening to the situation at hand. “First we were multinational, now we’re multigenderal.” That boggled my mind, and lead me to investigate what the demographics truly were in the game development industry. While it has been a slow change, women have been gaining ground [...]

What do you do when a pastime has run dry? That is actually what seems to have occured to gaming recently. If you take a look at the new titles, you’ll realize that lots of them are merely retreads of older PC games. No, I’m not mentioning Final Fantasy 55 ?, I’m mentioning the shooter [...]

What do you do when a pastime has run dry? That is exactly what seems to have occured to gaming recently. If you take a peek at the fresh games, you’ll notice that a good deal of them are merely new versions of old PC games. No, I’m not bringing up Final Fantasy 55 ?, [...]

A common pastime for web surfers is joining free contests in which all types of items can be won. The web brought with it new potential for companies to make contact with their consumers past, now and in the future, by setting up stunts such as free to enter giveaways, contests and other self-propelling marketing [...]

The Germans are not the first people who come to mind when people think about party nations. The Germans have earned themselves a reputation as being serious and hard workers. I’m still trying to figure out how the Germans fooled the world into believing that they are so conscientious and industrious. The reality is in [...]