January 2009
53 posts
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Bayer HealthCare has filed a trademark registration for Knock ‘Em Downs for use with “Video game software.”
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Bayer Healthcare has filed a trademark registration for Didget for use with “medical diagnostic instruments for the analysis of body fluids and video game software sold as a unit; medical devices for obtaining blood samples.”
December 2008
32 posts
Fallout 3 is banal, manipulative, and owes me back twenty-eight hours of my life.
“When I read criticism, I never learn anything about the record or the movie or...”
– Chuck Klosterman blows my mind.
“Home is a place where you can meet new friends, share interests, and play games....”
– Jack Buser, director of Home at Sony
Sony hired a nine-year-old?
“In the downtime between projects, I also proposed a number of new game concepts,...”
– http://www.freewebs.com/paultozour/resume.htm
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ZeniMax filed an Elder Scrolls trademark for “Motion picture films featuring fantasy games.”
Whatever that means.
“Stormbirds was the latest and last project I worked on whilst at Juice Games,...”
– http://www.gregcalvert.co.uk/blog/?page_id=22
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Pseudo Interactive had a canceled title in the late 90s named “Full Auto” that looks none too far removed from a title with the same name that appeared six or so years later.
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Sega has filed a new registration for “Sonic Shuffle.”
Please be a squaredancing sim and not a (Wii-fied) Mario Party clone, this time.
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Sega filed for a trademark for “Wacky Word of Sports” last Thursday.
Finally, a blooper simulation.
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Last Wednesday, Activision filed a trademark registration for “Blur.”
Hell yeah! Not only do we have the reunion, but a video game? (Okay, so it is probably Bizarre’s original racer or something.)
I think the brain damage from the first five minutes of these Video Games Awards is equal to inhaling spray paint while drunk.
“Multiplayer Level Designer
2K Boston, the team that created BioShock, is...”
– http://www.2kboston.com/jobs_design.php#multiplayerleveldesigner
I am going to imagine this is Twitter because I...
I wish I slept more than two hours last night, I really would like to be able to pull an all nighter to get the Brutal Legend publisher news at the instant it arrives.
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Umm, Activision filed a trademark registration for “We Fish” earlier this week; I think you can deduce what that means on your own.
“I served as project audio director on a TBA next gen title [Career Criminal]...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/randallbuck
“I was hired as a Senior Animator at SCEA on the first Jet Li game (Rise To...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/994/164
“Red Faction 3: Lead Designer Volition (Public Company; 51-200 employees;...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlawrance
“Duck Dodgers was a troubled Nintendo 64 project that was close to being canceled...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeybryant
“Lead Designer
Check Six Studios
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/wessmaniac
“Lead artist juice games (Computer Games industry) 2006 — 2008 (2 years)… Other:...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/pub/b/804/789
“While at Juice Games, a team of around 25 people were working on a project...”
– http://www.freewebs.com/miek/stormbirds-about.htm
“Lead Engineer Mass Media Games (Computer Games industry) December 2008 — Present...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/a00/679
“Terry has left Rockstar games. I spoke to him in the gym a few months ago and he...”
– from etan, an answer to seeming mystery of “Where in the world is Terry Donovan?”
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ZeniMax has registered Medieval Games for use in “providing online computer games.”
Maybe I’ll finish Fallout 3 by the time this sees release.
“Producer/Associate Producer
LMNO (unshipped Spielberg title) (XBOX360, PC,...”
– http://www.flinthawk.com/Portfolio/Resume.html
“Knights of Decayden” was a flight action game that I worked on at Totally...”
– http://www.mayerlair.com/ml_games_Decayden.htm
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Edge of Reality’s XFL game would have allowed players to create their own cheerleaders.
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What seems to be a model from LMNO.
“Hester Van Hooven…
LMNO Lead EA/ Habib Zargarpour”
– http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3129192/resume
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Watch out Ubisoft! Hwy 1 Productions, creators of rap karaoke masterpiece Get on Da Mic, have filed a registration for MyDinos.
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PopCap Games has filed a trademark registration for “Plants Vs. Zombies.”
I am officially ready to hype this game and regard it as the greatest ever.