Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator
I’m not sure if Sony’s decision to reveal the new PlayStation hardware today and force a head-to-head with Apple’s reveal of the iPhone 7 family is a suicidal marketing move or a tactical masterstroke, but I’m leaning towards the latter. Although the iPhone is going to dominate the digital pages
Continue readingBecause what VR really needs is Fruit Ninja: “After the latest VR technology was released, we felt that there was no better game suited to VR than Fruit Ninja,” Halfbrick’s Adam Wood, product manager for Fruit Ninja VR, told IGN earlier today. “The simplicity of Fruit Ninja with the total
Continue readingI think it’s been a good run for the PS Vita, and it’s ability to offer third-party titles and act as a remote station for the PS4 means it still have a lot of utility (and a great back catalogue), but Sony’s SVP Massyasu Ito confirms that there are no
Continue readingEil Hodapp edits an interview with a producer behind many of the well-known ‘free to play’ mobile games on just how much you give up for a free download to play games like Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and pretty much anything with an in-app purchase. Even users who don’t
Continue readingBrian Baglow brings together a comprehensive list of games published by Scottish companies during 2014. Naturally it includes Grand Theft Auto 5, but there are another eighty-four gems to explore via the Scottish Games Network.
Continue readingAdmittedly the cube is 17×17, so it’s slightly larger than your standard 3×3, but the edited highlights with commentary show the power of the human spirit, and the time-lapse is strangely hypnotic.
Continue readingPossibly because it was pitched as a PS4-only game, the hype passed me by. I’m all caught up now – thanks to Paul Tassi’s profile, and this interview with the lead developer from Game Informer. Damn, if this is as good as it looks, i might have to succumb and get
Continue readingLots of easy headlines from the tabloids for a crowd funding project that runs a ZX Spectrum emulator inside a joypad that looks a bit like a ZX spectrum if you removed all the keys, the programming language, the I/O ports, the edge connector, and Fantasy World Dizzt. It’s not a ZX Spectrum.
Continue readingLet’s play join the dots. Firstly, Rovio costs 16% of the workforce, announced on October 2nd: Unfortunately, we also need to consider possible employee reductions of a maximum of 130 people in Finland (approximately 16% of workforce). Secondly, on October 4th Rovio launch a social media campaign asking the world
Continue readingAs Sony retire the PSP in Japan, I look back at one of my favourite PSP franchises. To me, Densha De Go was the PSP. I’ve moved on to the PS Vita now — that was a Day Zero purchase on the strength of the PSP system, and again the long-lasting games are
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