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Comment The missing piece (Score 1) 133

by bmaguire on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:04AM (#39780515) Attached to: University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks

This kind of peer review is absolutely the most important missing part of the Open Text puzzle. One of the things text publishers still have going for them is the stamp of approval they give simply by publishing a text.

Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec 439

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 10, 2010 @04:26AM from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

Frank Gibeau, label president for EA Games, recently spoke with Develop about the publisher's long term development strategy. Gibeau thinks developing major games without multiplayer modes is a passing fad: "...it’s not only about multiplayer, it’s about being connected. I firmly believe that the way the products we have are going, they need to be connected online. ... I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same thing. They’re very comfortable moving the discussion towards how we make connected gameplay – be it co-operative or multiplayer or online services – as opposed to fire-and-forget, packaged goods only, single-player, 25-hours-and you’re out. I think that model is finished. Online is where the innovation and the action [are] at."

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