June 2012
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“Here’s the deal. It’s one thing to be scammed like Bernie Madoff, where you’ve gone and you’ve been seduced by something and put in all your life savings. It’s another thing for something not to come through for $25.”
—Kickstarter advisor and board member Sunny Bates explaining Why Kickstarter ‘can’t’ and won’t protect backers once a project is funded
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“I’m talking to the Japanese producer of Capcom’s latest, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, and I’m afraid I’ve deeply offended him.”
—‘Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor’ interview: War as celebration of life
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Earlier this month, Vox launched its own liveblogging platform: Syllabus. On Monday of this week, Syllabus was put to the test in its first highly-trafficked event, The Verge’s coverage of the WWDC keynote, where it delivered near-realtime updates to 300,000+ unique clients. Syllabus was…
“You had pen-and-paper role-playing games, we had socialism.”
—CD Projekt RED co-founder and current CEO Marcin Iwiński discussing the Cyberpunk 2020 board game
“All games in the future will require an internet connection,” he continued, “most already do.” He rattled off World of Warcraft and Mass Effect 3 as examples. It was obvious he was reading off a script at this point. It was probably taped up next to his monitor, titled in 36 point Times New Roman: “What to say to whiners about Diablo III DRM.”
—Our friend Paul Miller quit the internet for a year. He can’t play Diablo III, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
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