The incredible Apple App Store numbers
The Apple App Store is the biggest thing to ever happen to the video game industry, so it is amazing when you realise that it is less than 15 months […]
Another milestone in the death of broadcast television
Television is old media and, as such, it is rapidly losing relevance to people’s lives. It lacks interactivity, connectivity and non linearity so it is doomed by its technical inferiority. […]
Intel Atom CE4100, the future of gaming
I have written about this before, how soon consoles and PCs will not be needed to play games because televisions will be smart enough to do the job on their […]
Microsoft to buy Electronic Arts?
Since 2007 I have been predicting on here that Electronic Arts (EA) would be bought out. At one stage it looked very much as if Apple were going to be […]
The game mechanic and its subversion
The mechanic behind games is quite simple. Firstly you are given assets or skills, secondly you are given a task or a problem to solve then thirdly you are rewarded […]
Train2Game
There are now a huge number of people out there who have video gaming as a hobby. Quite a lot of these have thoughts about working in the industry, even […]
Sony PS3 Yellow Light of Death (YLOD)
So the BBC Watchdog TV programme did a piece about PS3s being less than bulletproof. The claim is that half a percent of PS3s fail. And as they sell in […]