CollegeHumor shows us what happens when Carmen Sandiego grows up:

Gen-Xers: today’s college student is talking about the TV show, not the video game.

Categories: Funny, Generations, Video Games
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To prevent myself from posting every time he comes up with an awesome Wii hack, I present the Wii page of hack-Godfather Johnny Lee. The latest, which shows how to create 3-day head tracking, is simply unreal.

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Blogging has dropped off due to the successful purchase of a Wii this past weekend (Task #1 Complete). If you want to be Wii friends, my number is 2885 7009 2914 6714. Send me yours and I’ll add you. Maybe our Mii’s can hang out a little, play some Wii Tennis at the club, or go bowling. I hear The Mii Parade is a happening place. Wow, my Mii goes more places than I do.

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I originally planned on using the Winter of Dave to catch up on my pleasure-reading, but that’s currently on hiatus while my roommate and I continue to dominate Guitar Hero II, which is on loan from my little brother. Throw on the new episodes of my shows, and the books can wait until I’m laying by a pool.

Revised goal list, Guitar Hero II Edition:

Cream SG: Get 5 stars on 20 songs in Co-Op
Gibson Grabber: Beat 20 Songs in Co-Op Mode
Gibson Les Paul with the Cherry Sunburst Classic skin: Beat 40 Songs in Co-Op
mode
Gibson SG Bass: Beat 10 Songs in Co-Op mode
Gibson Thunderbird: Beat 30 Songs in Co-Op mode
Hofner Bass: Beat every song on Co-Op mode
Lava Pearl Musicman Stingray: Get 5 stars on 10 songs in Co-Op
Natural Maple Gibson Grabber Bass: Get 4 stars on all co-op songs.
Natural Sunburst Gibson Thunderbird Bass: Get 5 stars on every song in Co-Op

(via this GameFaq)

Categories: Video Games, Winter of Dave
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I finally broke the 100,000 point mark (made it to the key level!) at Pac Man on my Google Homepage. Now I can actually do work.

Categories: Ephemera, Video Games
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The business landscape of the past couple of decades is replete with companies that have flourished as third wheels, and with companies that have struggled to make money despite being No. 1 in their industries. (Today, would you rather be Honda or G.M.?) And while it’s true that in many industries there is a correlation between market share and profitability, one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other. A recent survey of the evidence on market share by J. Scott Armstrong and Kesten C. Green found that companies that adopt what they call “competitor-oriented objectives” actually end up hurting their own profitability. In other words, the more a company focusses on beating its competitors, rather than on the bottom line, the worse it is likely to do.

From “In Praise of Third Place” in the New Yorker. Believe it or not, the article starts out about video games, which is why I read it.

This actually ties in with the most recent case in my B-School class, on Capital One’s use of an information based strategy to target profitable customers, rather than going after market share.

Categories: Entertainment Media, Strategy, Video Games
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