The Bigger They Are
Monday, February 25th, 2008EA just offered to buy Take Two for two billion dollars.
Someone bring them a bucket.
Google FTW?
Monday, February 4th, 2008Duct Tape Marketing has a post about the proposed Microsoft buyout of Yahoo and how much of a threat that would really be to Google. Even if you don’t go read it, the post title is telling–Google Wins.
The basic premise of the post is that Microsoft, a company that can’t figure out how to beat [...]
It’s Just Business…
Friday, January 18th, 2008You’ve no doubt heard that both Hasbro and Mattel have set their lawyers on the developers of Scrabulous. I’ve avoided writing about it because I figured my wooly-headed liberal open-source-loving perspective would be potentially divisive.
Then I figured–when have I ever let that stop me before?
Okay. According the current legal system and best practices of Business [...]
Oh Joy. More EA Vitriol at Man Bytes Blog
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I had intended to post an angry rant about EA’s employment practices today. It was going to explain how the Evil Aempire uses full time season contract labor for their game testing in an effort to get around forking out money for health insurance benefits.
I was going talk about the labor laws California has recently [...]
The State of Play
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008When I got the 360 for my birthday, I upped my rental queue to 3 games at a time. The logic was that I’d have one game for each platform (DS, Wii, 360) at any given time. Of course, it hasn’t worked out that way and I currently have three titles for the 360. I [...]
Evil Ubi?
Friday, December 15th, 2006Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan seems to think that the Evil Aempire ought to poop or get off the pot where Ubisoft is concerned. The EA currently holds 20% of Ubi’s stock and has enough capital on hand to scoop up more.* Since Ubi’s future is looking good, lukewarm to cold reviews of Red Steel, [...]