Posts Tagged ‘T-Rex’
Hardcore Casual
What makes a gamer hardcore? What is the difference between a casual gamer and a hardcore gamer? These are the kind of questions that keep me up at night when I am not busy envisioning a T-Rex with Sharks for arms.
Ignoring my penchant for cryptozoology for a moment, it does seem like there is a lot of talk lately about the casual, core, and hardcore market. It seems as though every publisher and developer is worried about how to best appeal to each market. There are literally billions of dollars at stake.
But why would the rest of us care whether someone is a hardcore or a casual gamer? Shouldn’t we leave it to market researchers and corporate executives to worry about that kind of thing? If we are really gamers shouldn’t we be too busy playing games to worry about it? (more…)
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Videogame Jam of the Day Latest Podcast- Barrel Roll #150 - "I Can't Stop Playing James Brown" January 31, 2012Welcome to our one-hundred and fiftieth episode! This should probably be some sort of milestone, but instead we carry on and talk about video games as per usual. This week we are joined by Mike Bachmann, host of Fistful of Pixels and generally known as a decent sort of fellow. Topics include Dustforce, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Resident Evil: Revelation […]
