Content Acquisition - $710,000
Revenue Sharing - $66,000
Administrative Costs - $252,000
Being the number 1 video site on the internet.... Priceless

Yea, and it makes sense too on the player's end. I'd rather pay $15 for some more really fun experiences in a game that I already know I like, than waste $50 on a game that I might not really enjoy all that much.

If they don't tap the phones, how will they know that we're getting the "Change we can believe in"?

One of my friends here in Boston/Cambridge did this. He went to Harvard and hold a PhD in Political Science. I'd say that's pretty far from a programming-related field.

Then one day he thought that he wanted to be a developer instead. He taught himself Ruby and Rails and started hanging out with the right people (this is a really key part of things). He makes continuous learning a priority. In a relatively short period of time he turned himself into a wonderful developer. I've had some people do code review of his stuff and its apparent that he's not a CS major, but he does a good job nontheless and commands a decent hourly rate.

One other thing he did that was pretty important was just jumping in and started making sites and contributing to things that people around him cared about. This got him pretty far quickly.

I've considered doing similar, but I'm headed more into project/product management side of it I think as there continues to be something about programming that I'm just 'not getting' overall (I used to be good at C++ but Rails hurts my head for other reasons).

Brian Jepson lives in RI. O'Reilly has offices in Cambridge. There's a new hacker space beside the MIT mueseam and also one now in Davis Sq. While the make-style hacker culture has been a little slow to take off in Boston, it's definitely growing and here.

One thing that holds me personally back in Boston is a lack of space. I have a 180sq foot apartment. There is little room for make stuff, but I still try to make due with the space I have as much as possible. Also that its hard for me to get to places to buy hardware stuff is a bitch. Its growing. Keep your eyes out. Contact me.

I tried the demo on Xbox 360 when it came out. I realize that not all demos are indicative of the quality of the overall game. I have not played the full version.

From my experience, the game is like playing Starcraft, while drunk, with your toes, after a frontal lobotomy. The controls are dumbed down, as is the general gameplay overall. The "pretty graphics and sound" didn't really add that much compelling to the gameplay. Any Command and Conquer game, Warcraft 1-3 or Starcraft had much deeper gameplay. For the $60 you could spend on this game, you could probably find ALL of these other games in bargain bins, or on eBay.

I fail to see why in the world consoles have the inability to use keyboard and mouse at least as an option. The 360 has USB ports, the PS3 has Bluetooth and USB. Why can't I just take my keyboard and mouse combo and use it for these systems as an option?

Some people have given me the excuse that MSFT/Sony/Nintendo want 'consistent gameplay' with the controllers that people will already have. If that's the case though, why do we have things like weird huge joysticks for mech games (360), Rockband kits, the Wii-Fit board, or the Duck Hunt stype zapper for the Wii??? These aren't your standard controllers, but are more than fine. I'm guessing that 'most' households with a game system have a USB keyboard and mouse laying around somewhere.

For me, this would make the consoles perfectly equal gaming systems for me that I'd be totally happy with for RTS and FPS genres.

No, seriously... can anything run it at full options yet?

(Most) browser based games aren't tracked currently. This will likely change in the future, but for the moment most MMO tracking comes from data feeds from the companies (WoW Armory) and Xfire data. Other sources such as Xbox Live and Steam are also supported.

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Your account isn't counted twice. Blizzard might count your account twice (I still wonder about that 11.5M 'users'), but not GamerDNA. These numbers are mostly counted from Xfire data, and partially from WoW Armory data. Its counting if you actually played, not if you registered an account.

Also, all numbers are from 'actual' measurement, not estimates of what the larger population is doing. You can potentially make assumptions about what the larger population is doing, but there is little/no error in the measurement of what is actually happening here among GamerDNA users. As there are more, and more diverse, GamerDNA users then there will be more accurate data.

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