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
Is Kickstarter really where the unaware fund the unprepared? Or does it deliver on what it promises? Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Since I don’t live in New South Wales or Queensland, I really don’t care about Rugby League. However, when the Melbourne Storm was caught in long-term salary cap violations, League certainly did punishment the right way. The consequence of hiding about AUS$1.7 m in player payments through game day payments of around $15 000 to … Continue reading
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