… in many ways, but this makes it stand out. Continue reading »
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Blog Writing Postponed On Account of Bioshock: Infinite
Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Continue reading »
Dear Valve: I Didn’t Know You Were In The Movie Biz
Valve and Apple appear to be converging on the same target – your living room. They both want to control it, which means controlling the television set. And Valve has to know that games alone aren’t going to be enough to control the TV. Continue reading »
Kickstander: Quantifying Hope and Measuring Dreams For Kickstarted Video Games
Is Kickstarter really where the unaware fund the unprepared? Or does it deliver on what it promises? Continue reading »
Hypocrisy Is Where You Say One Thing and Do The Other
I was very amused recently to see that Julia Schramm, a national executive committee member of Germany’s anti-IP Pirate Party, was being slammed with criticism for releasing a book and then having her publisher go after unapproved online copies. Continue reading »
Removing the Ask.com Toolbar And Its Search Engine Hijacking Effects
This isn’t something I usually do, but given I had to do a lot of hunting around to find out how to get rid of the Ask.com completely (or at least until it wasn’t interfering with my browser any more) I thought I’d write out my experience in order to aid others in future. Continue reading »
Pick A Winner!
Here’s a hypothetical for you: You’re an investor with US$100m burning a hole in your pocket. You absolutely have to invest that money in an MMO. (Why? That’s up to you – all your investor friends are doing it, you’re under an ancient gypsy curse, you have brain damage, whatever.) If things go wrong, you’ll … Continue reading »
Reading the MMO Tea Leaves for 2012
In previous years I’ve spent a lot of time reviewing and writing up a year’s worth of Massively.com / other MMO sites news articles. Although this is very useful from an information point of view (particularly the “oh, I’d forgotten about that” articles) it takes a very long time. So, this year I’m still doing … Continue reading »
Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
Occasionally you come across writing that packs a lot into very little. Lemony Snicket’s “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance” is an incredibly pointed and witty take on the OWS movement and reactions to it. Copied from the original just in case that disappears; all credit … Continue reading »
As Always, The Controversy Around The Logies More Interesting Than The Logies Itself
So, the Logies came and went last week. I almost missed it entirely, but there was news about someone having a nipple slip and then swearing about it. But that was about it. The Logies are a TV awards show held together by several free-to-air TV stations who don’t really trust each other but desperately … Continue reading »
