3.5/5. Everyone thinks they want to play multiplayer poker on their phone. They’re really, really wrong.

[XBLA] – Full House Poker Review – Evil Avatar

[XBLA] – Full House Poker Review In-House Content

This guy gives us a C because he couldn’t find players to play online with during the pre-release period. I knew it was a mistake to cut the time machine interface.

Video Game News : Review: Full House Poker (XBLA, WP7)

If you’re like me, you miss 1 vs. 100 on Xbox Live. Few things in online gaming have the entertainment value of playing with 400,000 people and watching some doofus think that Elvis sang “Hunk-a Hunk-a Butterfudge”. Microsoft promised that they had other

Here come the early reviews for my new game, Full House Poker on Xbox LIVE Arcade. 8.4/10 from these guys.

Full House Poker for XBLA Review

Next week Microsoft will release Full House Poker. Full House Poker will be released for both Xbox Live Arcade and Windows Phone 7, allowing gamers to grow

I’m really glad to see this article, which demonstrates what I’ve long believed to be true: that all the nervous handwringing in western free-to-play games over not wanting to sell gameplay advantages for money is a bunch of horseshit.

Gamasutra – News – GDC 2011: Perfecting The Free-To-Play Battlefield Heroes

Ben Cousins, general manager of EA's free-to-play Easy studio in Stockholm outlined the team's experiences launching, tuning, and succeeding with the company's first non-casual free-to-play game.

Know any child education experts interested in games? My team wants to hire one!

Microsoft.com – Careers

In order to apply for this job, you need to create a resume/CV. By selecting Create Resume/CV, you will be given the option to either build your resume/CV field by field or to copy and paste your resume/CV into one text field. You can save an incomplete resume at any point.

The creator of Pac-Man explains something I never really understood:

“The four ghosts all occupy different positions on screen. The red ghost is the aggressor, chasing directly after Pac-Man. The pink one is positioned at a point 32 pixels in front, the blue symmetrical to Pac-Man, and the orange entirely random.”

Genius.

GDC 2011: Classic Game Postmortem – Pac-Man | Edge Magazine

Taro Iwatani on how stinky arcades and spousal gluttony inspired the most successful coin-op of all time. pac-man_gdc2011.JPGTaro Iwatani on how stinky arcades and spousal gluttony inspired the most successful coin-op of all time. With this

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is on sale this week for $5 instead of $10. If you’re on Xbox, you really should get this game. It came out a couple of months ago and blew me away with its creativity. I get inspired when I see people innovating brilliantly within a very tight set of constraints such as Pac-Man.

You can buy it for five bucks from this link and it’ll download to your Xbox next time you turn it on.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX – Xbox.com

Pac-Man Championship Edition has been powered up!! Three years ago, Pac-Man Championship Edition was released and took the world by storm, 27 years after the original Pac-Man's debut. Now, for the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, this classic game has been powered-up! Everything has been upgraded! New v

My new game, Full House Poker, launches in a couple of weeks on Xbox LIVE Arcade. We’ll be posting screenshots and other sweetmeats to the game’s new Facebook page. Try it. You might Like it!

Full House Poker

Bet your way to fame playing Texas Hold 'Em anytime, anywhere! Compete against your friends and thousands of players worldwide. Play a quick two-player game for some lightning action, join a big 30-player tournament, or play a round of Texas Heat, our live poker game show where you'll have 30 minute…

Raph Koster’s presentation from GDC yesterday on 40 game mechanics suitable for social games. It’s a great deck, bursting with interesting ideas and insights.

http://www.raphkoster.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Koster_Social_Social-mechanics_GDC2011.pdf