While the summer season is considered the gaming industry’s slow time of year, this month’s PLAYED shows that people are still beating the heat by playing games. With the recession’s impact on everyday life, we look at how players are changing their gaming habits in the current economic climate.
If you read The Superficial, watch E! in lieu of evening news, or hungrily flip through InTouch at the grocery only to gingerly return its battered pages to its shelf with your pride just slightly wounded, you’re my celeb-whore soul mate. And since we are such kindred spirits, you should already know that Twitter is the ultimate celeb-whore feeding grounds, where digital stalking thrives, guilt-free and fully endorsed.
But not everything is happy and healthy in the CelebTwittersphere. Once plaguing America Online chatrooms and LiveJournal communities, a renewed epidemic of celeb fakes is taking over Twitter. And this time around, it’s somehow more damaging. Tony La Russa was going to , and Sarah Palin was forced to start her own Twitter account. I, too, have been a victim — of following many a fake. Twitter deserves some credit for attempting to take action with their beta service, but so far it’s been used sparingly, at record-setting snail’s pace.
Thus, on my own weak vendetta to “research” and weed out the fakest of the fake, I’ve determined the Top Five Worst Fake-Celeb Twitter Pages for your viewing pleasure:
Bienvenido “Benny” Torres and Christian Kugel struck their fists to their flat hands in a rock-paper-scissor “coin toss” to see who would get the opportunity to strike first in the inaugural Denuo Paper Football Championship Game. There was tepid anticipation in the air as their various vanquished opponents from the previous three rounds surrounded them to watch. Once players, they were now witnesses to desktop sports history. Only one of them (Albert Kim) had predicted that Torres and Kugel would meet in the finals. At the end of the count of three, Torres threw two fingers into a V shape, proclaiming scissors. The tension in the cold room was only matched by that of Kugel’s fingers. The maintained fist of rock signified the first victory of the day, and Kugel would receive the Torres kickoff to start the game.
Kickoffs are routine in just about every paper football game. But whenever Torres puts the edge of the paper football off his end of the table, preparing to slide the ball across the forboding black desktop, the crowd always sits with bated breath; each of them wondering if lightening would strike a second time.
There’s no denying that Twitter is an iconic poster child of the times. What gives the platform its real significance? Besides the bird, it’s what Twitter enables, how people use it, and how these behaviors evolve.
Inspired partly by this and mostly by the opportunity to shed superficial light on the lovely employees here, I embarked on a rigorous analysis to diagnose the different Denuo personalities, based solely on their Tweets.
Below is a summary of findings. Huge credit goes to Sarah for synthesizing the results into this phenomenally frightening visual representation.
NARRATORS provide filtered color commentary. They observe and selectively share worthy nuggets that aren’t corrupted by personal bias and judgment.
CRITICS rant, pick apart, reveal- but only when true inspiration strikes. Their self-musings are discerning, nuanced and often appeal to a more focused and limited group.
POLITICIANS promote, promote, promote. They tirelessly cater to an avid, broad following by frequently spotlighting their wisdom, travels, work and discoveries.
EDITORS curate and distribute content a la news outlets. They find inspiration from their large networks and Tweet/RT the best finds, often multiple times a day.
Read more to see the full details of the study.
The classic Nintendo controller has 4 buttons and a directional pad. Today, there are exactly 12 buttons, a directional pad, and two joysticks on an Xbox 360 controller. However, the days of single-digit button gaming are far from gone and, in my opinion, have not lost any luster. Simplicity, approachability, and raw (uncomplicated) fun are some of the core characteristics you’ll find in two upcoming Xbox Live arcade games that I’m personally looking forward to: ‘Splosion Man by Twisted Pixel and Zombie Apocalypse by Konami.
The thing that’s changed is, for the general population, new arcade titles easily get lost with all of the attention drawn onto today’s mega blockbuster hits.
