items tagged with GamingGCube Ventures: Backing the Gaming Start-ups
Written By: Efren Toscano Section: Interviews Category: Funding 2008-07-13 23:21:00
GCube Ventures philosophy is to engage in and actively participate in the evolutionary transforming opportunities within the $50 billion game and entertainment markets. They are an active investment firm with a hands-on approach providing guidance and resources to the companies they have invested in. Utilizing the decades of relevant domain experience and relationships of the Managing Directors, their firm generates superior proprietary deal flow as the destination firm of choice. They understand the Game, Technology and Entertainment markets and therefore take a detailed approach to understanding the companies they invest in before bringing them into their portfolio. GCube provides their Portfolio companies an end-to-end platform including best in class human capital, cutting-edge business intelligence, industry leading expertise, and a strong global co-investor network. Interviewees: Jawad Ansari & Shiraz Akmal The King of Kong: Steve Wiebe
Written By: Efren Toscano Section: Blogs Category: Social News 2008-08-25 05:36:34 The King of Kong himself Steve Wiebe and Seth Gordon (Director) speaks to TechZulu about the story of Steve's accomplishment. Steve is a math and science teacher at Finn Hill Junior High, a school in Kirkland, Washington. Wiebe was the first ever to achieve over a million points in the arcade game Donkey Kong and has the second-highest score (1,049,100) ever reported. Billy Mitchell retook the title on June 26, 2007 with 1,050,200 points. Wiebe also holds the top score record in Donkey Kong Junior (on a "Double Donkey Kong Boardset") with 1,004,000.
Steve has a few offers, one most recently by a man in Texas to come out and attempt the record for a grand total of $10K if he gets the high score. Steve says if you really want to become a great gamer, just "pick a game you love. If you have passion for it, stick with it and be the best you can be. Also, balance it with your home life." Although his kids may just see him as dad, all the gamers out there see him as one of the gaming gods we love. There are 2 items tagged with Gaming. You can view all our tags in the Tag Cloud |
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