The relevance of Greg Smith's broadside attack on Goldman's "toxic culture" in his??NY Times Op-Ed public resignation remains underdeveloped. Sure, we've had five days seeing him celebrated, vilified, and defended. And, to a lesser degree, Goldman has received similar attention. But little has been said about what this tale can teach about??ethical conflicts so familiar ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 19:53

FSI International shares are trading sharply higher after hours Tuesday after the semiconductor equipment supplier reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended February 25, and provided FY Q3 guidance that was well ahead of previous Street forecasts. FSI posted sales for the quarter of $38,5 million, well ahead of the Street at $32.1 ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25

Forbes is starting a new contributor video push, and when they asked me to film a two minute short about something game related, well, I knew what topic I?d be covering for by inaugural effort. Mass Effect 3 is the story that just isn?t going away, so I used my segment to address one particular ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:25

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is headed toward a flat start this morning, as preps for a final round of housing data amid concerns of a slowing Chinese economy. Specifically, futures on the DJIA are trading roughly a point above fair value, while Nasdaq and S&P 500 Index (SPX) futures are trading half a ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:56

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) are indicating a potential gain of about 70 points on the open this morning, as?? digests February retail sales data ahead of a monetary policy decision from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).?? Sales rose 1.1% to a five-month high in February, according to the Commerce Department, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:23

~ Guest Post by Nob Akimoto The recent kerfuffle over the day one DLC for Mass Effect 3 brought back to the forefront an issue I?d not thoguht about in months: the gap between design objecties and project management. Just about every high profile game suffers from some sort of fault. Release dates are missed, ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 22:24

From our ?not as single spies? department: Game Group, the beleaguered European video game retailer, seems to be facing up to the imminent possibility of adminstration. With Singer changing its advice on the stock to Sell, confidence in the Group?s ability to pull itself back from the brink seems low. Game itself, in a statement, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

Stock in the beleaguered European Game Group (LSE:GMG) have jumped on reports that OpCapita is talking to its creditors -among them the Royal Bank of Scotland ? about a rescue deal. OpCapita, best known for the ???550 million acquisition of the French company BUT (under its former incarnation as Merchant Equity Partners) in 2008, acquired ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

The Geek Picture of the Day was born to play.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 17:56

I wrote last week about the problem of enthusiasm in gaming journalism, and I wanted to continue the discussion about just why writers in this space can sometimes feel like PR mouthpieces. Advertising dollars and a general enthusiasm play into the problem, and I'd argue that a lot of journalists, not excluding myself, need to ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:57