Category: Gaming

Music and Video Games, Emotion and Culture, all in one gig

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Video Games Live is back in the UK, and Metro has a fabulous interview with their leader, Tommy Tallarico: When I was 10-years-old it was 1977 and Star Wars came out. And when I heard that music and heard that orchestra thatâ€™s what got me interested in orchestral music. We didnâ€™t have the Internet back then so I went down to the library and started reading these interviews and articles about this John Williams guy and he would talk about Beethoven and Mozart and then Iâ€™d go and rent a record from the library about whoâ€™s this Beethoven guy? And

I feel a great freemium disturbance in The Force

Posted on April 1, 2014April 2, 2014 by Ewan Spence

What the world needs is another poorly implemented collectible card game on a mobile phone, with far too many freemium elements grafted on top of it. But it’s okay, because this one has a Star Wars theme… Er, no. See my review of Star Wars: Assault Team on All About Windows Phone for the reasons against.

Flappy Bird on the ZX81

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Bob’s Stuff has a rather interesting release: Everybody seems to be going crazy over Flappy Bird at the moment, and a lot of clones have instantly appeared on the market – so why not one for the ZX81? Written in an afternoon to captialise on the media frenzy, it’s got all the gameplay of the original, but none of the in-app adverts which have been making the author so much money recently – but you can always use the Donate button on the home and download pages to make me rich! Looking at the screenshots, I suspect that only really

Now King have trademarked ‘Candy’ in respect to gaming titles, can we expect freemium licensing?

Posted on January 20, 2014January 21, 2014 by Ewan Spence

The good news is that they will likely licence it out, but you can only use it to compile five games every six hours, and if you want to distribute it in the app stores around the mobile world you’ll need to purchase a one-time ‘upload’ super candy.

Why did nobody tell me Spelunky is out on PS Vita?

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Actually I think I know why. They’ve all started playing it, it’s horribly addictive, and nobody can put it down long enough to tell anybody else that the dungeon crawler to end all dungeon crawlers is available to download.

Just how much of a financial cliff did Rovio drive off with Angry Birds Go?

Posted on January 6, 2014January 7, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Jon Jordan puts some numbers on the launch and the income of Rovioâ€™s (rather greedy) freemium karting cart game, Angry Birds Go. While the launch period saw the title perform well, itâ€™s been dropping quickly away from the topÂ of the app downloads and earned revenue charts: Yet as most of the graphs show, the key concern for Rovio will be that while Angry Birds Go! has launched very well in terms of its first three weeks, it’s now tracking downwards in terms of top grossing chart position, particularly on the more volatile App Store. Lots of graphs and stats to