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GameHorizon live-blog #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio

June 24, 2009

Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio’ Sponsored by Game Republic Paul Wedgwood, CEO and Game Director, Splash Damage Ltd. GameHorizon #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio Technorati Tags: north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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GameHorizon live-blog #4: ‘Survival of the fittest’; & ‘next Evolution in casual MMOPGs’

June 23, 2009

Panel discussion: ‘Survival of the fittest’ Chaired by Jamil Moledina (Outreach Director, EA Partners, Electronic Arts) with Darren Jobling (Business Development Director, Eutechnyx), Mark Rein (Vice President, Epic Games), Conor Sheridan (FX Dealer Manager, Custom House), Robert Bond (Head of IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham), Alex Carter-Silk (Partner, IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham) [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; & ’8 To be Great’

June 23, 2009

Games are entering a new dimension; 3D Stereoscopic Gaming on the console’ Andrew Oliver, CTO and Co-founder, Blitz Games Studios ’8 To be Great – The 8 traits that lead to great success’ Richard St John, Success Analyst & Author of 8 To Be Great   GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #2: The best things in life are free

June 23, 2009

‘The best things in life are free’ Rick Gibson, Games Investor: How freemium is transforming the world of online games Panel discussion: ‘The best things in life are free’ Chaired by Rick Gibson (Games Investor) with David Jones (Creative Director and CEO,Realtime Worlds), Sarah Bryan (Director of Production, Jolt), Paul Mayze (CEO, Mounmental Games), Simon [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #1: Welcome; Introduction; & Session 1 on persistent online games

June 23, 2009

Welcome to GameHorizon Conference Carri Cunliffe, Conference Director Introduction Ian Livingstone – Host and Life President of Eidos Session 1: ‘Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it’ David Jones, CEO and Creative Director, Realtime Worlds. GameHorizon: Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it Technorati Tags: metaverse,technology,north east [...]

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SCL at GameHorizon conference

June 22, 2009

If you’re looking for the live-blog sessions I’m doing at the GameHorizon conference, use the info in these boxes to tune in on whichever session is live (or passed). More info to be had on live-blogging etc. via this post. Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]

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Justin in Virtual Worlds

June 19, 2009

I was thinking that my activities relating to Virtual Worlds are beginning to bear fruit, in that I can go to business development meetings with potential clients and be able to talk VWs with credibility. I’m blowing my own trumpet here [er, I think that’s called Marketing – Ed.], but hopefully you will find the [...]

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SCL joins NEESPR!

June 17, 2009

A post to announce that Souter Consulting Limited has joined the North East Service Provider Register. So, if you are looking for assistance around Social Media strategy & fulfilment (e.g. how can I use blogging & Twitter for my business?) Document, Information & Knowledge Management, and using collaborative technologies in general Management of Change to [...]

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Visit to D|Lab, Institute of Digital Innovation

June 10, 2009

Last week I was lucky enough to visit Philip McClenaghan and Dan Riley at D|Lab: a multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers and digital specialists located within the Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) which, in addition to developing product and service innovations for a range of industry clients, works extensively with business partners wishing to explore [...]

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Barcamp North East 2 feedback #bcne2

June 5, 2009

This post is about my experience at the Barcamp held immediately after Thinking Digital, at the Centurion Bar in central Newcastle upon Tyne. I didn’t know what to expect from the day, but I thought it would be interesting to go along and test-drive the whole experience. I had a nebulous idea that Barcamps were [...]

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