We recently interviewed Electronic Arts director of advanced technology John Buchanan, CORE Digital Pictures VP Doug Masters (himself a former EA developer) and Side Effects' Robert Magee for an article about major shifts in the games industry and how they affect job prospects.
They said some surprising things that should give anyone thinking about pursuing a career in games a lot of food for thought.
Most surprising was this statement from EA's John Buchanan, which seems to shatter a commonly-held belief among hopeful game developers about what it takes to make it in the industry:
"We now have a huge problem in our industry of engineers, who used to be the gods of gaming, now becoming subservient to the artists."
After you read the full feature article, if there's enough interest in more on careers, let us know -- post in this thread -- and we'll add some of the career-specific tips that were left out of the main article.
While the panelists agreed that blogging and moblogging doesn't automatically qualify as journalism, they did say that it CAN be journalism if journalistic principles are applied.
One of the more interesting comments was from technology journalist David Akin, who said that experiments that enlist moblogging citizens with camera phones to send their photos to news sites may be cool and fun and interesting, but it's not news by longshot, mainly because they lack the professional journalistic skills to identify what qualifies as news.
We've been testing the new Palm m130 for the last few weeks and will test the m515 shortly. A full review will be online soon but we haven't experienced any of the problems you outline.
Did you buy and exchange your Palm at the same store? It may be that the defective units were from the same batch.
If you (or anyone else) has any further details please let me know. I'd be interested to read more.
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We recently interviewed Electronic Arts director of advanced technology John Buchanan, CORE Digital Pictures VP Doug Masters (himself a former EA developer) and Side Effects' Robert Magee for an article about major shifts in the games industry and how they affect job prospects.
They said some surprising things that should give anyone thinking about pursuing a career in games a lot of food for thought.
Most surprising was this statement from EA's John Buchanan, which seems to shatter a commonly-held belief among hopeful game developers about what it takes to make it in the industry:
"We now have a huge problem in our industry of engineers, who used to be the gods of gaming, now becoming subservient to the artists."
After you read the full feature article, if there's enough interest in more on careers, let us know -- post in this thread -- and we'll add some of the career-specific tips that were left out of the main article.
While the panelists agreed that blogging and moblogging doesn't automatically qualify as journalism, they did say that it CAN be journalism if journalistic principles are applied.
One of the more interesting comments was from technology journalist David Akin, who said that experiments that enlist moblogging citizens with camera phones to send their photos to news sites may be cool and fun and interesting, but it's not news by longshot, mainly because they lack the professional journalistic skills to identify what qualifies as news.
Did you buy and exchange your Palm at the same store? It may be that the defective units were from the same batch.
If you (or anyone else) has any further details please let me know. I'd be interested to read more.