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Simon Carless is a British game developer, journalist, edit and designer known for his work as Editorial Director at CMP Technology, where he works on Game Developer Magazine, Gamasutra and GameSetWatch. Previously, Simon was editor of Slashdot Games and as a Lead Game Designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari.

  • 04:46:43 pm on April 10, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Probably deserves a hashtag along the lines of #gamesaddingfarming - Halo 4: Pasteurization; Silent Hill Organic Market, etc.

     

  • 04:41:03 pm on April 10, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Heh, our own @wimdotbiz notes that Nexon's free-to-play RPG Mabinogi just added... farming: http://bit.ly/9dpnZG

     

  • 11:34:13 pm on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: I think it's adorable when people send emails specifically flagged as 'Low importance'. Humbleness for the win!

     

  • 10:22:09 pm on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Haha, I see @sardoose is Twitter-fighting with Deadly Premonition's @agent_york about correct crediting on a @gamasutra ch-article. :P

     

  • 09:34:50 pm on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: @adunne Looks like the low-altitude jet flyover was for the SF Giants opening game, aha. We were wondering too....

     

  • 05:30:41 pm on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Cute, @gamasutra got a bouquet of sunflowers, courtesy the zombies from @popcap_games' Plants Vs. Zombies - 'sent you a snack', they said.

     

  • 03:11:27 pm on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Loving all these indie platform adventure Metroidvanias, Hero Core looks super-neat too: http://bit.ly/aNg7p9

     

  • 12:53:21 am on April 9, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Sorry, another iPhone 4.0 post, but @ferricide did a super-nice analysis with @ngmoco, @dubane comments: http://bit.ly/cBl6He

     

  • 06:51:10 pm on April 8, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Over on @gamasutra, Other Ocean talk about awesome faux NES game Dark Void Zero: http://bit.ly/b5JnP6

     

  • 03:25:03 pm on April 8, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Wow, sent to @Gamasutra's 'help' email: 'Get the hell out of my husband's brain! At his age he's supposed to do kamasutra not gamasutra!'

     

  • 06:21:33 am on April 8, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Picked up Alan Moore's first two Dodgem Logic issues from Top Shelf - http://bit.ly/9mRhXq - odd eclectic zine goodness.

     

  • 10:00:35 pm on April 7, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Awesome that Dave Halverson's relaunch of Gamefan has Blade Kitten on the cover, this seems... appropriate: http://bit.ly/cAfDxl

     

  • 05:37:41 pm on April 7, 2010 |

    simoncarless: RT @frankcifaldi Amazon has Deadly Premonition @$15 today, in case $20 was +$ for the best game of 2010 so far: http://tinyurl.com/ycntzag

     

  • 12:47:38 am on April 7, 2010 |

    simoncarless: RT @sardoose Want to write about games? Got an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad? FingerGaming's looking for reviewers. http://bit.ly/9R8m7Z

     

  • 11:43:54 pm on April 6, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Lali Puna's video for 'That Day' is dreamynice - more pastels like this in video games, plz: http://bit.ly/auMevx

     

  • 09:48:16 pm on April 6, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Scene.org award winners are out: http://bit.ly/95c7h6 - and look at Fairlight/CNCD's Breakpoint winner, wow: http://www.bit.ly/bZ2H4h

     

  • 04:20:08 pm on April 6, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Jason Rohrer's new two-player 'storytelling game' Sleep Is Death really does look intriguing: http://bit.ly/cAUuTu

     

  • 03:44:27 am on April 6, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Catching up on Cinematic Titanic DVDs, the live riff on awful kungsploitation movie 'East Meets Watts' is good++: http://bit.ly/9aFiKb

     

  • 08:54:24 pm on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: @sorenjohnson the audio of your GDC speech is up on Vault now for subscribers: http://bit.ly/clnkQ6

     

  • 08:49:09 pm on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: @wkerslake We'll be releasing free video lectures on GDC Vault every 2 weeks for the rest of the year, yay.

     

  • 06:08:01 pm on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Kevin Gifford scanned Playboy's Electronic Entertainment mag (1982!) covers for @gamesetwatch: http://bit.ly/dxrOF6

     

  • 04:09:30 pm on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: 1. Caltrain's heating system sounds v.specifically like the Smoke Monster. 2. The lawyer sitting next to me has a bright pink laptop case.

     

  • 03:02:53 pm on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: New on @gamasutra - Richard Garriott, on why subject matter R&D is vital for game design: http://bit.ly/adZmig

     

  • 03:27:39 am on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: All free GDC Vault videos - http://bit.ly/9BIOXz - Brian Sharp's amazing leadership talk also up: http://bit.ly/9Qdp2x

     

  • 03:21:30 am on April 5, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Ron Carmel's Indie Fund-related talk (w/the Indie Games Summit intro) is now free on GDC Vault: http://bit.ly/drsoKb

     

  • 06:55:59 pm on April 4, 2010 |

    simoncarless: @antumbral It's a fairly recent acq., so we'll fiddle with some of the programmer art (in this case, programmer Flash) in due course :P

     

  • 06:46:30 pm on April 4, 2010 |

    simoncarless: It's serving almost 100 million ads per day for F2P games, and there's actually an indie or two advertising, too... more on this trend soon.

     

  • 06:45:29 pm on April 4, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Nice - our v.low-profile ad network (Game Advertising Online) is rapidly rising towards Top 100 U.S. on Quantcast: http://bit.ly/9My3Om

     

  • 05:38:05 am on April 4, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Another 12 random alt.links, inc. the Rhine river's length and LoEG: 1988 - http://delicious.com/simoncarless

     

  • 09:49:00 pm on April 3, 2010 |

    simoncarless: Why is the contextual advertising in Gmail informing me of a sale on teleprompters? (Only $799, folks!)

     
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