Category: Gaming

Never Gonna Give [Audiosurf Tilt on the Zune HD] Up

Posted on January 21, 2013January 21, 2013 by Ewan Spence

There’s a lot to like about Microsoft’s last portable media player, the Zune HD. They got the hardware right, they got the PC connectivity and syncing right, they got podcast support right, and it’s still the player I reach for when going on a long trip and I want to be one hundred percent sure that I’ll have music from my door in Edinburgh to the hotel room in Austin. Where they missed was in application support. The Zune HD could run XNA games, but they never made the jump to Windows Phone along with the other tools. Which means

The Next Microsoft is hired by Microsoft

Posted on January 21, 2013January 21, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Last year Andrew Kim decided to re-imagine all of Microsoft’s branding as a project for his portfolio. The Next Microsoft went viral, and Kim had his calling card. Today he announced that he’s picked up a job… with Microsoft’s XBox team.

Now we have Carcassonne on Xbox Live, can we get Catan?

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Ewan Spence

My review of Carcassonne is up on All About Windows Phone: Sometimes there comes along a smartphone game that simply enchants me when I first run it, and it never lets go. There are a lot of games that can do that in the first ten minutes of play, but for a title to be really special it needs to retain that feeling in the following hours and days. Carcassonne is one such title. Its availability on Xbox Live has been promised since the start of the year, and now it’s here, I’ve let out a little cheer.

Unity Game Engine will be available for Windows Phone 8 development

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Ewan Spence

â€œWe are excited that the Unity community will now be given the opportunity to develop world class titles for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8,” says Microsoft. This should give us parity between iOS Android, and WP8 game releases, but don’t expect to see it really take off until into early 2013 as WP8 gets a foothold.

Terence Eden and the Xbox 360 Experience

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Ewan Spence

That, I think, is the root of the problem. Parts of the 360 feel like it has been designed for Microsoftâ€™s benefit; not mine.

Reading between the lines, we’ll never see Ouya Console

Posted on July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 by Ewan Spence

The entire system hangs on the ability that you want to play ported Android games on a cheap system, with an unseen controller, on a television screen. While many developers are willing to provide quotes about how great the OUYA could be, so far no one is willing to put their money where their mouth is and announce projects for the hardware. Penny Arcade.