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GamrCred forced to change name

September 14, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GamrCred, the site that monitors and ranks your computer game prowess, is having to change names after another company thought the name was too close to “streetcred”. In an email to early adopters, the young site said; “After hours of deliberation with $1,000/hr lawyers who actually said we had a good case against said company […]

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: Empire Avenue, gamrcred, legal

BioWare’s Muzyka and Zeschuk invest in Empire Avenue

August 17, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You might have encountered sites like Klout which attempt to measure how much influence you have on Twitter and other social media spaces. It’s a challenge; people are good at gaming the system. Step in Empire Avenue. It’s a stock market model that measures how influential people are but then allows players to buy and […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: bioware, Empire Avenue, Greg Zeschuk, Ray Muzyka, twitter

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