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  • Valve Announces First Left 4 Dead DLC | Game | Life from Wired.com
    "With Half-Life and Counter-Strike, and more recently Team Fortress 2, we've learned that we're no longer making stand-alone games but creating entertainment services. With Left 4 Dead we're extending that tradition by creating additional gameplay and releasing our internal tools to aspiring developers so they may also create and distribute new Left 4 Dead experiences." Lots of places have the news; this quotation is the killer, though. "Entertainment services". GAAS, anyone?
    (tags: games play left4dead valve entertainment quotation halflife gaas saas )
  • Film Studies
    "What's So Great About The Wire?", a course at UC Berkley. Given the comparisons they suggest, to leave out any of Series 2 from their studies is, frankly, criminal.
    (tags: education tv thewire davidsimon filmstudies wotnosobotka )
  • Team Fortress 2
    "On Tuesday we shipped an update that added a bunch of features / bugfixes / balancing tweaks that came out of the community's feedback. In particular, it made some changes to the underlying TF damage system, and as part of that, it modified the way critical hits are determined. We thought it might be interesting to dig a little into the change, and hopefully give you some insight into our thinking." Another cracking example of explaining game mechanics clearly and directly, to an engaged community.
    (tags: games play statistics mechanics fun teamfortress2 balancing probability )
  • Gary Penn on the rules of game design | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    "You've got to get shit happening – you can talk about it, you can write it down, it means nothing until you actually make it and think f**k that's nothing like what I thought it was going to be! That happens most of the time." Gary Penn on prototyping, getting real, and how they do stuff at Denki. More good stuff.
    (tags: design games play prototyping fun denki )
  • The Denki Difference | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    "We always start with the idea of toys," says Ralfe. "They're the quickest way into finding fun. Rules aren't fun, so we never begin with them." Great feature from Keith Stuart on a visit to Denki; lots of good stuff in here.
    (tags: design games play guardian fun denki )

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