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Even a guy with an uncontrollable addiction to gaming has to work if he wants to have his wife stick around. Ed Borden brings you his day-to-day insight from deep within the PC hardware industry as a C-Level exec of a boutique systems integrator - in the way only a gamer knows how...with a BFG9000.
- Added on: Feb 20th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Ed Borden
- Listed in: Technology Computer & Video Games
- Tags: computer gaming PC hardware Intel nvidia
Recent Posts
Innovating Physics Gameplay - Red Faction: Guerrilla
A few months ago I wrote about how the dynamics of the gaming and tech industries have shifted to a point where the push for graphics fidelity in games has largely plateaued, and the quest for a higher level of "realism" has superseded it (see "Futur...
Real Innovation is a Change in Usage Behavior
One of the problems inherent in the PC/CE/tech industry is that people get entrenched in specific ways of thinking, especially on the hardware side. At this point, the vast majority of hardware is commoditized, standardized, and off-the-shelf, so co...
Trivergence: The Internet of Everything
I've been talking about "digital divergence" lately (the counter-revolution to the debunked digital convergence that never happened; see here for more). Turns out that I was too little and too late, because Andy Zimmerman of Accenture proclaimed the...
"Minimum Viable Product" & Community Game Funding
Minimum Viable Product = the version of a product with just enough features to get money and feedback from early adopters. It could be nothing but Google ad or a landing page asking for signups. The gist is that if you can get customers to take the...
Smaller Business Doesn\'t Automatically Equal More Agile Business
Lou Gerstner, Chairmain/CEO of IBM from 1993-2002, brought the company back from a dying has-been to a relevant, powerful force which helped to usher in the internet age. In his memoir "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" (2002), Gerstner writes:"For mu...
Steam + Valve = Conflict of Interest?
There's been a story circulating over the past few days about Gearbox's Randy Pitchford's comments that Valve should spin off Steam as a separate company because of a conflict of interest. I actually think this is a pretty fantastic idea, but not fo...
