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		<title>No port in a (financial) storm</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2009/03/20/no-port-in-a-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be the case that selling your studio to a multi-national publisher was a great way to secure the future of your company. Massive financial resources would be available to a develop to create those great games you had always wanted to make, which would in-turn get major marketing support as the publisher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve &#8220;Snowy&#8221; White and the Seven Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2009/03/18/steve-snowy-white-and-the-seven-directors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep in the Enchanted Forest stands a lovely little cottage; home to Steve White and the Seven Directors. Steve, known as &#8220;Snowy&#8221; to his pals, is the sole employee of a game development company Enchantia Software. He&#8217;s the sole employee because all seven of the other people working there are Company Directors.
The Seven Directors previously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More useless information on Digital Downloads</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/11/18/more-useless-information-on-digital-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent piece on Gamesindustry.biz (Sony claims 14 million active PSN accounts // News) Sony announced that there are now 14 million active PSN accounts and that between them they have downloaded over 273 million pieces of content.
&#8220;pieces of content&#8221; could of course refer to paid for content such as games, themes etc or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral rights, porn star Tera Patrick and Saint&#8217;s Row 2</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/08/02/moral-rights-porn-star-tera-patrick-and-saints-row-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) aren&#8217;t something most people think about in relation to porn. However that is exactly what I thought about when I read this article, published by KotakuÂ  (Saint&#8217;s Row 2: Porn Starlet Tera Patrick Joins Saint&#8217;s Row 2). The porn st&#8230;. sorry adult star Tera Patrick has been appointed &#8220;Special Producer&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poker vs Blackjack</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/03/20/poker-vs-blackjack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While catching up on my reading I came upon a post entitled Bluff on Pierre-Alexandre Garneau&#8217;s blog. The topic was the concept of bluffing in games with a mention of one of my favorite games of the moment, Texas Hold &#8216;em Poker. Now oddly I used to hate Poker, almost as much as I hated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Miller incubates</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/03/18/scott-miller-incubates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Game news site Gamedaily.com has a story up here about an apparent new IP incubator company to be founded by Scott Miller of 3DRealms and Jim Perkins, a former SVP of GT Interactive. The story is based on the brief existence of a web site (now showing just a logo) for a company called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take-Two&#8217;s poisoned power pill.</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/03/14/take-twos-poisoned-power-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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According to a Reuters&#8217; report here the computer games publisher Take-Two has instituted a severance plan for employees (both executive and non-executive level), which would be activated in the event of them being fired following any purchase of the company. Obviously Take-Two are a caring company with their employees best interests at heart and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game Industry Links ++</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2008/03/13/game-industry-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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Veteran games marketing man Bruce Everiss has posted a fairly exhaustive list of Game Development related web sites. Below is Bruce&#8217;s original list (which he has kindly given permission for anyone to repost) plus some additional sites I use on a regular basis. Please share and enjoy.
Here I will list a whole pile of websites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid reason #4 &#8211; &#8220;Most of the games today are rubbish &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I can do better&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2007/08/30/stupid-reason-4-%e2%80%9cmost-of-the-games-today-are-rubbish-im-sure-i-can-do-better%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the stupid reasons to set up a development company (or even to just try and get a job in the industry) #4 is one which crops up far too often. The logic behind it seems to be that a huge percentage of games that reach the market are badly made, unoriginal, poorly tuned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm up North</title>
		<link>http://www.obscure.co.uk/blog/2007/05/11/warm-up-north/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 16:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Marchant (Obscure)</dc:creator>
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I attended the inaugural Northern Exposure gaming conference yesterday, which took place at York Racecourse. The event was organised by North-based games networks GameHorizon and Game Republic and was focused on the future of games publishing and the impact of digital distribution. There were a number of interesting and lively talks given by a variety [...]]]></description>
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