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Counting Rupees: Take me to your lead platform
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: N'Gai Croal of Level Up recently pointed to an interesting development factoid from EA CEO...
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Counting Rupees: The year of the PS3
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Apparently, 2008 is the year of the PS3. After what most consider a very shaky first year, the...
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Counting Rupees: Battle of the brands
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: When Guitar Hero 3 launched last year it was an immediate success, selling out at a fairly...
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Counting Rupees: The business of politics
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks rendez-vous on Joystiq to contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: The politics of video games are well covered by other websites, but...
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Counting Rupees: Will the real Wii60 please stand up
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: With the Wii's apparent runaway success this generation, there's no doubt that both Sony and...
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Counting Rupees: Selling out without selling out
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Earlier this week, Next Generation published a list of the top 100 selling games of last year....
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Counting Rupees: The WiiCube
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: In my last column I suggested that, if Microsoft is to make a Wii-like controller, it should...
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Counting Rupees: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Much as many people expected, Activision public relations recently confirmed that (one song...
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Counting Rupees: GTA IV vs. Iron Man
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: According to several "analysts" last week, the successful launch of Grand Theft Auto IV...
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Counting Rupees: The Job System
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: It's not unreasonable for a gamer to look at their console and wonder how it might help them...
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Counting Rupees: Digital Rights Madness
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: When EA announced that Spore and Mass Effect (PC) would have a DRM program that did performed...
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Counting Rupees: You drink their milkshake
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Guitar Hero IV is on its way, and with it are coming individual games themed around Metallica,...
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Counting Rupees: The MMO-TV hybrid
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Can a game spin off into a successful TV series? Many of us still remember waking up early on...
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Counting Rupees: Bust Blox
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Boom Blox seemed to have everything going for it. EA, one of the biggest and most successful...
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Counting Rupees: Korea bangs
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: I've temporarily relocated to Seoul for the summer to work for a consumer electronics firm, so...
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Counting Rupees: E3 lives!
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Last week GamePolitics editor Dennis McCauley declared in his weekly Joystiq column that E3...
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Counting Rupees: Sustainable Indies
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Braid was released just over two weeks ago to critical raves and a few complaints regarding...
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Counting Rupees: Does controversy sell?
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Another day, another video game banning controversy. Proponents of the ban, unsurprisingly,...
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Counting Rupees: Day of Crisis
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: One of the issues I've been talking a lot about recently has been the concept of crisis...
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Counting Rupees: Feeling used
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: Bungie audio director Marty O'Donnell recently made some controversial remarks regarding used...
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Counting Rupees: The Importance of Innovation
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: One of the most prominent words in game journalism and discussion today is "innovation" – how...
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Counting Rupees: Gaming the economic crisis
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: The markets have plunged thousands of points, credit is tight, unemployment is skyrocketing,...
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Counting Rupees: Once bitten, twice shy
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: This past week, my 360 finally gave up the ghost. It began with an occasional hard freeze, and...
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Counting Rupees: The Network is the Platform
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: "The Network is the Computer" - John Gage, Sun Microsystems, 1984 When John Gage said this in...
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Counting Rupees: Oh, magazine
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming: With the end of the holidays came the news that EGM is being shuttered. These are...
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