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Halo 3 - A GameZombie.tv Round Table

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GameZombie.tv presents GZ Round Table Vol. 1 - Halo 3

Director, Producer, Editor: Spencer Striker
Audio Engineer & Score Remixer: Chris Bates
Camera 1: Caleb Levell
Camera 2: Jessica Frasher
Camera 3: Moises Montenegro
Jib Operator: Mitch Richardson
Handheld Camera: Bashir Roohani
Floor Director: Toddy Smith
Audio Recorder: J. Kyle Smith
Technical Director: Ross Haggerty
Studio Engineer: Steve Parker

Game Journalists:
David Klein
Jason Lataillade
TJ Babcock
Mike Green
David Antognoli
Chabane Maidi
Chad Quandt
Justin Swing
Pablo Poffald

Spencer's 2007 Reading List

This list is in development; however, it was exciting to publish it via Google's brand new web page creation service. The world is changing...

http://worldwithoutaname.googlepages.com/home

amore e guerra

The story of one man's struggle to hold onto his love while witnessing the horrors of a world at war. A story of innocence lost--but not passion--and the journey of two hearts across a lifetime. My undergraduate thesis film from the University of Texas--remembers my grandfather, Alfred Santopietro (1921-2002): my hero.

Gears of War

Some of my classmates in the Immersive Mediated Environments Master's Program at Indiana University at Bloomington have been asking whether or not it's a good idea to purchase an XBox 360. I say yes, and I can give you my reason in three words: "Gears of War."

My friend Rory and I have been waging a two-man genocide against the locust horde, sending whole legions of those foul beasts back into the abyss. And it's been bloody good fun.

Designer Interview: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/7390

IGN review: http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/747/747891/vids_1.html

Survival horrors meets third person wartime shooter in this super slick bloodbath told in shades of gray.

Umbrella Corporations & Cross-Marketing

In my Telecommunications 101, 'Living in the Information Age' discussions, we delved into new media economics. We engaged the phenomenon whereby a book that gets plugged on say the 'O'Reilly Factor' is most likely published by Harper Collins. This is because both are owned by Fox News Corporation. The following website, (dated 2002, though still largely relevant), lists the top ten multinational conglomerate media corporations. Cross-marketing has emerged as a primary business strategy to compete against the endemic uncertainty characteristic of the contemporary market--best demonstrated by George Lucas's announcement that he'll no longer be making mega-movies. Consider how Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean' is not simply a movie, it is a trilogy of movies, a theme park ride, a video game, (or a slate of video games), a McDonald's tie-in, toys, posters, books, etc. It is a franchise. Would you say that perhaps this is one way of adapting an old business model, (the Pareto Principle), to the emergent marketplace, (characterised by the Long-Tail)?

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html