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Spore Creature Creator

I recently took a trip to London for business to discuss Community Server strategy with members of the Eidos Interactive team as well as our friends at Electronic Arts (Europe) at their new offices in Guildford. Aside from getting a sneak peek at some...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, CS, TheBlackFin, EA, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Community Server 2008, Spore

Game of the Week - Ninja Gaiden II

One of my all time favorite games was the original Ninja Gaiden on the NES. I still remember the opening cut scenes ... that was all about the story that you needed to know... you knew it was time to start slashing away. I felt the same about Ninja Gaiden...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Microsoft, Game of the Week, Ninja Gaiden 2, Ninja Gaiden II, Ryu Hayabusa

The Art of War

While recently traveling to LA I picked up a copy of The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Translation by Thomas Cleary... Shambhala Dragon Editions). This has always been one of my favorite strategy/business books as it is amazing to me how applicable 6th century...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Episodes of a Dad - Part 1

If you would have asked me 10 years about how many kids I would have or what kind of dad I would be I would have looked at you like you were from another planet. Fast forward 10 years and 3 kids later and I would not want to be anything else than my kids...

Filed under: Tom Edwards, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Gavin Edwards

40,000+ gamerscore

Yesterday marked the passing of the 4 0,000 gamerscore plateau. It took 151 days to go from 30,000K to 40,000K with an average gain of 66 points per day. So I thought I would take a moment and archive some fun facts from this latest points quest. 1) Consecutive...

Filed under: Tom Edwards, Xbox 360, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Gamerscoreblog, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Guitar Hero, Halo 3, Game of the Week, LOST, LOST Via Domus, Army of Two, Dark Sector, Iron Man

New Phone System

While I was traveling to Detroit for business we had a new phone system installed at the office. This is a very slick system, soft dialing, queues, etc...What I didn't know was another plan was unfolding around the phone system. There was a phone box...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Telligenti, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Deryl Dorsett, John Balod, Phone System

Skate 2 & Skate It

It is now official to discuss that Electronic Arts Skate franchise will release 2 new titles. Skate It for the Wii leveraging the Wii fitboard will arrive late in 2008 and the highly anticipated Skate 2 for the 360 will hit stores in 2009. In mid April...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, TheBlackFin, EA, The Black Fin, Skate, Electronic Arts, Wii, SkateIt: achievement points, Skate2, Skate 2, Skate It

Xbox 360 Retail Game Library

One of my good friends recently posted his game library as part of his blog. So following that lead here is my collection of Xbox 360 Retail titles. I also have 40+ Arcade titles that may be listed later. 91 Retail Titles Owned (Game Reviews I have written...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, Telligenti, achievement points, NHL 2K7, TheBlackFin, Madden08, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Halo 3, Star Wars, Bioshock, Game of the Week, NHL 2K8, COD4, Assassin's Creed, Lego Star Wars, NFS Prostreet, Mass Effect, LOST, LOST Via Domus, Gears of War, Army of Two, Dark Sector, Gearsofwar2, Gears of War 2, Madden09, Iron Man

Telligent Named "Best Place to Work in DFW"

I mentioned previously that Telligent was one of the few companies selected as Best Place to Work in DFW by the Dallas Business Journal. Last week was the official luncheon and awards ceremony to find out exactly where we placed in our category and overall...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Rob Howard, Scott Dockendorf, Jason Alexander, Telligenti, TheBlackFin, Dallas, The Black Fin, Social Networking, Culture, Telligent Culture, Best Places to Work, DBJ, Dallas Business Journal

7 Periods

I was lucky enough to be at Game 6 of the Stars and Sharks Sunday night. The plans just happened to come together on that day and I am really glad that they did. Rob Howard , Scott Dockendorf , Deryl Dorsett and I were excited to catch some playoff hockey...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Rob Howard, Scott Dockendorf, hockey, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, Game 6, Deryl Dorsett, San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars

Game of the Week - Iron Man

I have been a fan of Iron Man since I was a kid. Granted he is not on the top of the super hero food chain but I did pick up the occasional issue of the Invincible Iron Man. You may or may not have heard that a summer blockbuster was just released starring...

Filed under: Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Microsoft, Game of the Week, Iron Man

Game of the Week: Gears of War 2

When the dust settled on the original Gears of War release over four million copies were sold and some of the highest critical praise of any title on the 360 to date. So it is easy to say that the expectations around Gears of War 2 are pretty high. Epic...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Xbox 360, Telligenti, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Major Nelson, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Microsoft, Bioshock, Game of the Week, Gears of War, Dark Sector, Gearsofwar2, Gears of War 2, Epic Games

Proximity Marketing

I recently attended a customer brand loyalty summit and saw some interesting things & met some very interesting people. One of the topics discussed during a networking session was the next progression associated with marketing and mobile devices....

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, marketing, viral marketing, TheBlackFin, The Black Fin, iPhone, SMS, Proximity Marketing

Community Server 2008

On April 15th Telligent released Community Server 2008 . Community Server is the platform that powers communities for the likes of Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Dell and the MySpace.com forums and is the platform of choice for thousands of community implementations...

Filed under: Telligent, Community Server, Tom Edwards, Xbox 360, Web 2.0, CS, marketing, viral marketing, marketing strategy, Telligenti, TheBlackFin, Xbox forums, ROI, Community ROI, community, Web 2.0 ROI, Incremental sales value, The Black Fin, Electronic Arts, Community Server 2008

Game of the Week - Dark Sector

When I first read about Dark Sector in OXM a few months back I really liked the concept of the game. I had heard about the drawn out development cycles and the focus on the Glaive. (Think Krull). So when it recently launched I had to pick it up and I...

Filed under: Telligent, Tom Edwards, Black Fin, Xbox 360, achievement points, TheBlackFin, Gamerscoreblog, Gamerscore, The Black Fin, Halo 3, Bioshock, Game of the Week, COD4, Bioware, Dark Sector

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