Well it’s been a hopefully crap start to the new year in terms of this site. I’ve spectactularly managed to miss posting anything of interest or personal opinion, I blame work…oddly doing the thing you like talking about and “playing” gives you less time to actually do those things. 

Thus, after a long evening and a short attention span in full force it feels a good time to finally post. That and I have a link worth sharing which seems worth posting.  Sam Houston created a post of all the Games devs/publishers currently on Twitter, over the course of the day it’s taken off with a RockPapersShotgun post from the legend that is Kieron Gillen. It’s a pretty awesome collection of names from across the industry, covering some of the big boys and small boys of the industry. 

What I find interesting is the different way people use twitter, now there’s no hard and fast rules on twitter obviously especially as a developing(ed) format and I’ve certainly been meaning to write up my thoughts on its place within the videogame family. The likes of Valve have obviously gone for the clearly much more “marketing” orientated approach, using twitter as an advertising platform. Whilst others use it much more as a general, “hey here’s me” approach which I guess provides a nice insight for gamers into day to day lives. 

I know that some companies certainly don’t know how to deal with twitter, and there are a wide range of policies in place at different companies as they try to figure out how to balance PR / Marketing with the insight and updates that Twitter could potentially offer. This has gone as far as outright bans, limiting access to just the community team or leaving it open as a free for all with the individual entrusted to manage themselves. 

In a world where a single miss-type or accidental post can spread around the world quicker than you can think I can understand the caution felt by some. I certainly think it’s going to be a while though till twitter becomes fully embraced across the industry and the quite figure out how to handle it. 

Apologies that’s mine is broken at the moment on the right but you’d only be able to read about how tired I am and not getting enough done on my “to-do-list” 

Check out Sam’s post though and start following!