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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

7/10: “It’s one of the best poker games we’ve ever played . . . but it doesn’t stop the whole concept of risk-free poker from feeling fundamentally pointless.”

Yeah, not much we can do about that risk-free aspect. Unless you care about XP and leveling, in which case you risk quite a lot. Busting means you are blocked from earning XP for X hands, and X gets bigger as you level up.

Review: Full House Poker – Official Xbox 360 Magazine

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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

9.5/10 means I will not say anything snarky about this beautiful human being’s kind words.

Full House Poker Review! | Wethegamerz

Well it looks like Xbox Live Gamers desire for an amazing poker title has come true. Full House Poker brings the fun world of poker and merges it with your avatar. Don’t worry though your avatar will not be injured while playing Full House Poker. Although you may experience random moments of over ex

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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

8/10. Apparently we made this guy a poker champion in just two hours! God, I knew we should have made that world peace game instead.

Review: Full House Poker (XBLA) | PerezStart

Growing up in the small town of Guttenberg, NJ, I never experienced Poker until I was in my late teens. I was thrown into a couple of games with my friends

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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

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

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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

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

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by John Scott Tynes
March 11, 2011

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

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by John Scott Tynes
March 6, 2011

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.

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by John Scott Tynes
March 3, 2011

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.

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John Scott Tynes, writer and game designer edited his Birthday, Website and Awards.

by John Scott Tynes
March 3, 2011
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by John Scott Tynes
March 3, 2011

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

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