The Stinger Report

The Stinger Report

New Trends Highlighted in Europe!
The European gathering at the TiLE Conference brings a large number of theme park, regional entertainment and technology issues to the forefront with news of the turbulent Space World German facility, development of new packages from ETC for facility application and new attraction development that could reduce the gap between amusement and attraction.

Interactivity and Physicality in New Attractions
Major development in small footprint attractions offer a extreme ride envelope in a small package – The Stinger Report reveals the development of the first RoboCoaster attraction in Europe, along with the expansion of the EnTCo product line placing them in direct competition with Maxflight.

News from the E-Zone!
From Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo on down, most of the top home video game companies are publicly traded. So, a spate of bad news has sent shockwaves through the financial community. First, the entire consumer game market is struggling in that fallow period between platforms: the old console systems are beginning to get stale, but the new ones are still a year or more away. Result: (relatively) sluggish sales. Second, rumors have surfaced of a "payola" type scandal where several consumer magazines have allegedly taken…something…to publish rave reviews of mediocre games. Third, one of the world's biggest consumer game publishers has been revealed to have some pretty weak numbers on the books. Fourth, old health scares about games are popping up again in Europe. Meanwhile a new mobile phone virus starts fresh security scares for this most important of tools.

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