User-generated content is the industry's newest business model, so should gamers get paid big bucks for the work they do? Turns some already are.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
Ben Porter from Newzoo explains that the player base has very little overlap with mainstream hits such as Assassin's Creed: Shadows and Ghost of Yōtei
I used to buy cheap games thinking I’d play them later, but I always ended up returning to my favorites. Now I skip the deals unless I know I’ll play the game soon.
This is very true, my nephews grew up on these two games and whenever I introduce them a AAA game whether old or new, it's like seeing an alien try to make sense of it and then quickly lose interest in it.
Can’t really expect a 8 year old Roblox kid to go buy resident evil 9 lol
Gaming trends are so weird to me now. Like, I’m old school and games were consumed essentially how movies were. You play through a title and look forward to the sequel or other things that came out. Now, that is so not the norm.
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"Indeed, not one of the million-plus user-created levels for LittleBigPlanet earned anyone a dime"
Not true. I remember an article a while ago about people who created some great levels being offered jobs by Media Molecule. Overall, interesting article.
And one last thing, "So when EA announced the Little Big Planet 2 closed beta test", I don't think it was EA that announced it...