Van Dien would like to see a full-scale Starship Troopers game in the future.
The fact that the game will also be open to modding should help increase the scale and longevity of the game as well.
But it lacks a blockbuster in the shooting-game category on the scale of "Call of Duty" and needs "Battlefield 3" to flourish to make inroads in that genre this holiday season.
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"The reason that this hasn't happened to date on a wide scale is that the tools of game creation weren't really available to the average person, they required large teams that do coding and all the costly items that go into creating a popular game, " he said.
The same is true of 3D manufacturing devices that allow small-scale producers to get back in the game of producing everything from household goods to complex mechanical proto-types at ever-lower cost.
This cat-and-mouse game is being played on a scale, and at a speed, that is unprecedented and growing.
That is why unions across Japan reeled at the news in January that Toyota's trend-setting union had made the unprecedented move of giving up (very early in the game, too) pay-scale increases this year.
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The scale was calibrated so that a 100 was a game for the ages.
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Then the game will be one of getting to a mass scale, pronto.
And the hefty punishment dished out to Richards reflects the scale of his cover-up in the days after the game.
But if the scale is a necessary part of a Halo series, this game succeeds in a much smaller way.
In short, the digital economy turns business into a Moneyball game, in which leveraging data leads to global scale development and higher profitability.
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The Elder Scrolls Online merges the unmatched exploration of rich worlds that the franchise is known for with the scale and social aspects of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
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"There are more features people want in the game, and there's no way we could scale enough people fast enough, " OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter told Mashable shortly after the acquisition.
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Far worse on the league's draft-bust scale were Chris Washburn, who lasted just four seasons and averaged 3.1 points a game after going third overall to the Warriors in 1986, and Nikoloz Tskitishvili, a center from Italy who averaged 2.9 points and 1.8 rebounds in a five-year career after he was picked fifth by the Denver Nuggets in 2002.
Six years ago, when Ichikowitz acquired this 90-acre site in the middle of the 185, 000-acre Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West Province bordering Botswana, he never imagined anything on quite this scale.
So this is intriguing to me, especially because it could help foster a robust game economy similar to that in EVE which not only gives more casual players a chance to scale down, but rewards serious players for their time investment.
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Chip-scale sensors already tell an SUV's master computer when the vehicle is about to roll over and the Wii game controller when the live player wants to swing the virtual bat.
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