Don’t watch this if you can’t let your tears roll openly 😉 It’s a FANTASTIC story about willpower. A father undertakes the adventure with his son to do the triathlon. A really amazing story to start the week with! I know it’s not game-related on first look, but in the end it’s about purpose, meaning and challenges, and in that sense very much related to game-design… and definitely an epic experience!

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>Of course Facebook’s days aren’t over…yet… but I do think they should watch out that they don’t become a victim of their own success. An often made mistake is that brands extend their activities and innovations so widely that they estrange from their core values and core business, like Google does with Google+.
A quick example: Google is a search engine. A free providers of useful tools (gmail, Google alerts, analytics, maps, etc. – all data driven design). However Google is NOT a social platform, although it is trying to become one. They still haven’t managed to do so.
Microsoft is an OS and software company. Not a social network or webbrowser builder. Does anyone remember Bing…? I don’t … mission impossible…
Facebook is a social network, a global community as I would rather call it. There are a lot of things that Facebook could do with their connections: create better understanding amongst people worldwide, becoming a global incubator, becoming a think-tank to tackle world problems, connecting countries and overcoming hunger… up to now Facebook has been interested in just a few things: adding data, making consumers more dependent on Facebook (my whole life is on it these days) and making money through advertising. But what if …

– A new social network will emerge shortly that is easier in use and goes back to the essence why we embraced Facebook (no ads, or hardly any, just a tool to share your thoughts, experiences and photo’s and follow your friends life virtually). Remember Instagram? They bought it… killing competition is sometimes more effective than fighting them.
– Apple moves into social…?
– YouTube moves into social…?
– Steam moves into social…?
– Zynga leaves Facebook…?
– Brands find out that using social media is not really all that effective as all the bullshit digital guru’s (like myself) tell you…?

Zynga is responsible for about 17% of Facebook revenue. There are rumors that they will start their own social network (platform) providing free and paid casual games. Gaming takes 20% of consumers digital time these days, just like ‘social networking’… and gaming is predicted to grow-and-grow-and-grow…

So… how long will consumers stay loyal to Facebook? I think just as long as they don’t feel robbed and advertising doesn’t take the fun out of the community… Still, I am not buying any shares…

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A reported about the new IKEA TV that will be available in Europe end of this year… now see how you can assemble it!

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To all my followers on this blog:

I will be in Silicon Valley from May 26th until June 2nd if you want to meet up.

After that I will be in L.A. (Los Angeles) for the E3 and meetings from June 3rd until June 5th.

Send me a TWEET @BartHufen or email at barthufen at brandnewgame dot nl

Then (if I am still alive after 7 days of gaming shizzle) – I will drive my (rented) Dodge Challenger to Vegas with my best friend Lorence – so join me then if you want to get drunk 😉

Let me know!

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Although I am not a great fan of IKEA – I think they just invented a BRILLIANT proposition for households world wide… well done! As long as the sound is good and I can hook up all my apple shizzle and PlayStation 3 … I’m sold!

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Thanks to Newzoo and Distimo research. 

 

• Share of paying players has grown 35% to 37 million Americans
• iOS takes 54% of the revenues from mobile games, iOS games gross 5 times more and Android games in the US
• The majority of money is spent in-game: 91% of revenues for both iOS and Android
• 68% of Americans plays games on a smartphone, of which 19 million (28%) plays on an iPhone
• iPad dominates the tablet space and is used to play games on by 60% of tablet users

• Share of paying players has grown 24% to 9.2 million Brits
• iOS takes 61% of the revenues from mobile games, iOS games gross 16 times more and Android games in the US
• The majority of money is spent in-game: 91% of revenues for Android and 85% for iOS
• 75% of Brits plays games on a smartphone, of which 4.9 million (27%) plays on an iPhone
• iPad dominates the tablet space and is used to play games on by 71% of tablet users

• Share of paying players has grown 29% to 7.8 million Germans
• iOS takes 61% of the revenues from mobile games, iOS games gross 8 times more and Android games in the US
• The majority of money is spent in-game: 73% of revenues for Android and 78% for iOS
• 69% of Germans plays games on a smartphone, of which 4.1 million (25%) plays on an iPhone
• iPad dominates the tablet space and is used to play games on by 64% of tablet users

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As I wrote in ‘A Brand New Playground’ this just MIGHT be the future of glasses and technology…

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Frogger… who didn’t play it when (s)he was young? Now you can play the ‘real-life’ version in a fusion with the original arcade classic! Check out the video!

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Look at the reaction of these two lovely people when they find out they used to be playing the same game and the guy was actually member of the legendary ‘Method’ guild… brilliant!

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