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$500,000 a year is pretty good, but it'll only pay a half dozen people or so.  How many employees do they have?  It must be around 30, right?  They need to be pulling in at least $2-3 million a year just to be breaking even, and it's probably more than that.

Wait, so Mass Effect 3 is going to be FMV?  I'm in.

NAH They should set An AC game in Ancient japan  Setting AC in the civil war would be just as dumb as setting ac in iraq  Also Isnt AC made by people from france?   and last time i checked nobody outside america gives a fuck about the america civil war 

The British newspaper The Guardian reports that Chinese prisoners in the Jixi labor camp are forced to farm gold in WOW to make money for the prison administration.  Apparently they make more money doing that than working in coal mines.  The article also notes that gold farming is a 1.2 billion pound industry in China with 100,000 people involved, and the Chinese government grants licenses to companies to "trade in fictional currencies."  If gold farmers are making that much money, how much must Blizzard be making?
link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam

Who wants to bet that Assassin's Creed Day is the last one?

@Daveyo520 said:

" I hope they don't take themselves seriously. "

That's just it though... what if they do.

" @walterkovacsv said:

" this is stupid as hell. "

It's how games should be released in the first place. This inspires me to just wait out the L.A. Noire hype and pre-order shenanigans and wait for a GOTY edition. "

Apparently motion control sells well, just not to people who use this website.  I'd never dream of getting one, but according to an article on the BBC site, the Kinect has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest selling electronics device ever.  It sold faster than the iPad or anything else.   The article also says that they've sold 10 million games.

Gaz Davies, editor of Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition, said: "We can confirm that no other consumer electronics device sold faster within a 60-day time span, an incredible achievement considering the strength of the sector."

Guinness World Records said that Microsoft sold eight million devices between 4 November last year and 3 January at an average rate of 133,333 a day.

  I really thought the Kinect was a bad idea (for gaming).  There are some neat things going on with hacked Kinects, but the idea of "controller-less" gaming just seems too imprecise and silly to me.  But apparently there are kids out there begging their parents for a Kinect so they can play the sports game or the animal game or whatever.
 
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Wait, so they're saying the North Vietnamese were goblins?  Is that what they're saying?

Wow, that is a totally different business model than the 49.99/59.99 plus 9.99 DLC model used by most computer game companies!   I guess rail-sim enthusiasts know what they want and are willing to pay for it.  Why couldn't a similar model work for flight sims?  Serious flight sims (especially combat sims) more or less died out because they became too realistic and complicated for the average consumer.  But why can't they put out Falcon 5.0 for 50 bucks (or something) and then charge  4.99-29.99 for different planes and scenarios?