Entries by Thomas BIDAUX

How Yammer has improved our internal communication

When I started working here at ICO Partners, I noticed a challenge I’ve seen before in large global companies with multiple offices in different locations: there’s no water cooler or kitchen shared by everyone in the company. No place where information is passed on naturally from one person to the other, gradually making its way […]

We are going to gamescom!

Granted, this blog entry’s headline is not the most creative one – but I will try to make up for it in the following paragraphs:   While Thomas and Diane are already visiting panels and having meetings at the GDC Europe in Cologne, the rest of ICO’s crew is making the final preparations for their […]

Busting 10 myths about social games

Last month in Munich I spoke about social games, common myths about them and the relative truth for each of them. While we have been working on social games projects for a while, we aren’t as familiar with this part of the industry as we are with the MMO space, for instance. Researching for this […]

From Brighton to Munich

On Tuesday 13th of July, I presented my lecture “Games as a service, do you really know what it means?” at the Develop in Brighton conference. While I have changed the slides a bit for the event, the content was essentially the same as when I presented it in Seattle for the LOGIN conference, and […]

Here comes a new challenger – Player 4 has joined the game

<img class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-1203″ title=”guile” src=”https://www.icopartners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/guile-300×201.png” alt=”guile” width=”300″ height=”201″ />We have been busy for the past few months — busy enough that we decided it was time to look for a helping hand (or two!). We were lucky enough to find some very capable hands indeed. Starting today, we have a new team member, joining […]

Fun & games on Kindle

<img class=”alignright size-full wp-image-1185″ title=”landing_page_center_graphic_v208591535_” src=”https://www.icopartners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/landing_page_center_graphic_v208591535_.png” alt=”landing_page_center_graphic_v208591535_” width=”291″ height=”276″ />Here is a blog post that has been waiting to happen for a while but it seems it is hasn’t lost its relevance in the mean time. I have seen very few comments in the gaming industry about the Kindle and its application to Games. At […]