Scobleizer » golf game http://scobleizer.com Exploring the 2010 Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Tired of economic bad news? Play free online golf! http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/30/tired-of-economic-bad-news-play-free-online-golf/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/30/tired-of-economic-bad-news-play-free-online-golf/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:36:22 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4915 Today Electronic Arts laid off a bunch of people. I guess video games aren’t selling well now that we’re all tightening our budgets. But a new startup in Silicon Valley has a better idea: make a better golf game online and give it away for free. It’s called the World Golf Tour and I interviewed the CEO and got a demo (16 minute video).

How is it better? Well, they are visually superior because they use real photography of real golf courses. Plus, since you play in your browser, you are able to do all the collaborative stuff you’d expect to do online.

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