Howdy, I'm MG Siegler. I’m a general partner at Google Ventures and a columnist for TechCrunch. This is where I collect things.
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Sarah Perez of TechCrunch on Samsung’s fake-turned-real “Unicorn Apocalpyse” ads:
And the whole point of the commercial series was that Samsung devices helped the Unicorn Apocalypse team work better together to make the game a success.
So is the lasting takeaway from the actual game’s launch, and subsequent suckiness is…what?
That maybe they should have used iPhones?
The ads are great — until reality hits.
Awesome, simple, fun, beautiful new iOS game. (Great promotional site too.)
[via Daring Fireball]
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So far, MoMA has acquired the following games, all of which will be on display in the Museum’s Philip Johnson Galleries in March 2013: • Pac-Man (1980) • Tetris (1984) • Another World (1991) • Myst (1993) • SimCity 2000 (1994) • vib-ribbon (1999) • The Sims (2000) • Katamari Damacy (2004) • EVE Online (2003) • Dwarf Fortress (2006) • Portal (2007) • flOw (2006) • Passage (2008) • Canabalt (2009) (via Bam! Pac-Man, Tetris and 12 others land in The Museum of Modern Art’s new Video Game collection - The Next Web)
SimCity 2000? Sold.
Would Mario on an iPhone be an interesting property? I think yes, it would.
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Solitaire.exe, A Real Deck of Cards Inspired by the Windows 98 Solitaire PC Game
Amazing idea for a game.
[via Seldo]
This is the new iOS game from Tweetie creator Loren Brichter. I’ve been playing around with it for a few weeks — not surprisingly, it’s really well done.
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Um, Nintendo Risk?
Sold.
(via Reddit)
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
I had been worried that the Mac version would arrive much later than the PC version. But worry no more. Jordan Golson:
EA plans to release the next version of SimCity — the classic city-building game — on the Mac simultaneously with the PC release this February. EA will also be delivering Origin, its digital download service, at the same time. The game will be available for purchase and download via the service.
Cannot wait to see this game on a retina display.
(via @KielO)
Ever since we shipped The Incident, Matt Comi and I have been working on a new game. We’ll be previewing it at XOXO Arcade, XOXO Festival’s indie-game showcase on September 14, 2012, right here in Portland. (Matt will be there too!) The event will be open to the public, so come check it out!
Love The Incident. Excited for this.
Todd Bishop:
Apple sold 1.3 million Apple TV devices during the June quarter, an increase of 170 percent over the same quarter a year ago.
That still qualifies as a “hobby,” according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who disclosed the number in response to an analyst’s question on the company’s earnings conference call. But here’s an interesting data point: Microsoft sold 1.1 million Xbox 360s worldwide during the same time period.
While Apple didn’t mention the Apple TV in their earnings release (and they have never broken it out into its own category), Cook did reveal the number when asked during the Q&A today. He was clearly pleased with the number, but also downplayed it quite a bit. But this context is pretty telling. Not only is it now outselling the Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 is the best-selling gaming console.
When — yes, when — Apple adds apps to this thing, wonder what will happen… If they added them tomorrow, the Apple TV would instantly be the number one gaming console. Think about that for a second.
(via John Gruber)
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Dystopia: What a Game of Civilization II Looks Like After 10 Years
Here’s what happened. Some human being kept playing the same game for a decade and then posted screenshots to Reddit along with a narrative explanation of where the gameworld stands. Lycerius, the user, begins his history of the future:
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The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.
There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.
This is beyond epic.
