The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Sometimes you just look at a game and wonder, “oh please god, I hope they never make a sequel”. Obviously, I’m not in the lord’s good books since Ubisoft is making another Assassin’s Creed. Yes, you probably already knew that but today the first teaser trailer is released, shedding light on the second game. Looks…
Right, so another free episode of Qore, and this one might actually be worse than the December issue I looked at in the past. I think this pretty much confirms that Qore isn’t selling. We’ve seen two free episodes released in the last three months. Obviously the first one wasn’t enough to encourage people to…
I’m really tired of all the shovelware that’s appearing on pretty much every single system these days. You know what kind of games these are. The ones that are bargain basement cheap, short, of low quality, nonsensical, and leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. So, I thought I’d start a semi-regular feature…
Following up on round up of consoles, let’s take a look at the portables. Gaming Laptop–See Gaming PC Sony Playstation Portable Advantages-Best graphics our of all current portables, equivalent to early PS2 games.-Large library of games that are geared toward intermediate and hardcore gamers-Excellent personal media player capabilities, boxed movies available–Playstation Store for downloadable games…
About a year ago, Apple announced it would be bringing gaming to it’s iPhone and iPod Touch lines. At the time it was just a proof of concept and gaming wasn’t officially introduced until the iPhone 3G was in June. According to Apple, the iPhone has made it’s mark as a viable gaming platform over…
A lot of people out there are unsure about which gaming system they should purchase. Let’s examine the practical pros and cons all four major gaming rigs so you can make an unbiased decision of which one to buy. Gaming PC Advantages:-Games will typically have superior graphics and sound to console counterparts and games can…
It turns out that casual gamers aren’t as easily accepting of abuse and have forced EA to backtrack on their increasingly intrusive DRM-schemes. For the Sims 3, EA plans to go back to disc based copy protection schemes involving serial numbers. Rod Humble noted that “the game will have disc-based copy protection — there is…
Imagine being able to play video games from any laptop, any TV, and desktop PC or Mac. Ok, you can already do that but imagine doing that without having to buy expensive gaming hardware. A new gaming service called OnLive was introduced today at GDC 09. The service is similar to Steam except the games…
I’ve normally countered complaints about Apple’s high prices by saying that the high quality and durability of their products is the reasoning for this. However, I must say that they’ve taken the price thing a bit too far this time. American telecom giant AT&T is going to start offering no-contract iPhones starting in April 2009….
There was a rumour going around that Apple’s new buds for the Shuffle G3 contained an authentication chip that would essentially limit the device to only Apple approved accessories. The rumour appeared on several credible tech sites such as CNET and EFF. I never took this rumour seriously until I was looking through iFixIt’s disassembly…