{"id":1259,"date":"2006-09-24T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2006-09-24T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T20:31:18","slug":"bioware-comes-to-mobile-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1259","title":{"rendered":"BioWare comes to mobile media."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neat.  According to <i>Sci-Fi Wire,<\/i> <a title=\"SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=0&#038;id=38213\">BioWare is moving into handheld gaming,<\/a> specifically the Nintendo DS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;hand-held technology is now at a point where we can create those rich and amazing adventures that we&#8217;ve had in mind for some time,&#8221; Dan Tudge, project director of the BioWare Handheld Game Group, told SCI FI Wire.<br \/>\nHand-held gamers tend to be younger, Tudge said. &#8220;Japan makes up the largest portion of that audience,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Japanese market is obviously very strong, but it&#8217;s also an extremely tough market for us as a North American company to break into.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting note there about handheld gamers tending to be younger; all four of the twentysomething people in my current house have DSes, as do many of the grad students in my cohort.  Interesting.  Verrrrry interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neat. According to Sci-Fi Wire, BioWare is moving into handheld gaming, specifically the Nintendo DS: &#8220;hand-held technology is now at a point where we can create those rich and amazing adventures that we&#8217;ve had in mind for some time,&#8221; Dan Tudge, project director of the BioWare Handheld Game Group, told SCI FI Wire. Hand-held gamers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-kj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}