Archive for Social Gaming

I Love Seeing Videogames Blogged in Non-Videogame Blogs

Posted on Feb 08, 2008 under Blog, Community, Social Gaming, Xbox 360 | No Comment

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A co-worker, Staci, forwarded over a post she found while on one of her favorite blogs, Design*Sponge.  I’m not sure if I love it because it makes me feel like less of a geek, or if it’s just to remind me that there’s more to the InterWebs than the videogame community.  Either way, I especially like seeing people like my friends and family (the non-gaming variety) pick up an Xbox 360 controller or guitar, and feel a bit of the same joy I get from blasting a dinosaur in Turok or getting a royal flush in Poker Smash. 
From Design*Sponge:

rock band + chocolate buttercream cake + friends = a great time. this has nothing to do with design, but this video game has occupied so much of my personal time lately that i had to share a few scenes from ac’s 31st birthday party on saturday. if you’re into video games or music [...]

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Trying to Find Rock Band

Posted on Nov 21, 2007 under Chris Paladino, GSB Video, John Porcaro, Nelson Rodriguez, Social Gaming, Tony Hynes | No Comment

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Imagine it is the Monday before Thanksgiving.  You’re staring down the barrel of a long holiday weekend, you’ve been denied preorders at every store in town, and your team copy of Rock Band is missing in action.  That is no campfire horror story, but our real life.  Our latest documentary captured the drama as it unfolded.

Epilogue:  After the video was shot (and after many calls and driving adventures), we turned to the highest authorities in the land.  Our significant others found us each a Rock Band bundle.  The moral to the story, never give up hope.  To say this game is awesome is almost an insult to the game experience.  You have to play it to believe it.
(This entire blog post is based on actual events.  No ears were harmed while filming.)

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