{"id":488,"date":"2005-12-12T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=488"},"modified":"2005-12-14T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T09:49:55","slug":"giving-them-what-they-really-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Giving Them What They (Really) Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting story over on the L.A. Times newsite (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-blitz12dec12,1,6628245.story?coll=la-headlines-business&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">Link<\/a>) concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwaygames.com\/rxpage\/MidwayHome.html\">Midway Games<\/a>&#8216; new (but not NFL-sanctioned\/licensed) football videogame. From the article: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Electronic Arts Inc. secured exclusive rights to make video games based on the National Football League last year, many industry observers figured it was &#8220;game over&#8221; for other makers of football-related games.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of throwing in the towel, Midway Games Inc. chucked a Hail Mary \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and scored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lesson learned: Give the creative people a little room to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/\">Blue&#8217;s News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting story over on the L.A. Times newsite (Link) concerning Midway Games&#8216; new (but not NFL-sanctioned\/licensed) football videogame. From the article: When Electronic Arts Inc. secured exclusive rights to make video games based on the National Football League last year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}