October 25, 2012
SmartGlass Stillborn?

“Xbox SmartGlass launches on Windows 8 tablets and PCs on Oct. 26. It will be available on Windows Phone 8 when those devices launch,” the company told the Penny Arcade Report. “Xbox SmartGlass will become available on select iOS and Android models soon. We have nothing further to announce at this time.”

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This isn’t the launch of a feature, it’s a middle finger. iOS and Android support isn’t a neat thing they should be trying to achieve, it’s absolutely mandatory for SmartGlass to succeed.

Sounds like someone in the Windows group at Microsoft heard about SmartGlass and decided that it would hurt Windows if it released as a first class option on iOS or Android. It would be typical MS behavior to kill its own new product rather than let it hurt, or worse, embarrass, Windows or Office.

Sad really.

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Filed under: xbox games SmartGlass iOS Microsoft Apple 
July 31, 2012
Steam Comes to Linux, Stallman Not Enthusiastic; News at 11

At least he isn’t outright hostile:

“This development can do both harm and good. It might encourage GNU/Linux users to install these games, and it might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux,” he wrote. “My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm. But there is also an indirect effect: what does the use of these games teach people in our community?”

He does call steam games on Linux “unethical because they deny freedom to their users.” Which is a bit much.

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Filed under: games linux stallman tech 
July 26, 2012
Nintendo Reports Operating Loss Of $132M

parislemon:

When I read news like this, I get sad because I love Nintendo.

But not too sad, because I hold out hope that this somehow leads to Nintendo games coming to Apple devices.

Losses like these make me sad for the big N, but I don’t think releasing on Apple hardware would help them.

Take a look at how Sega and Atari are doing. Both still exist but are very pale shadows of their former selves.

So far none of the console makers have ever figured out how to reverse the slide once it starts, so it may be their only route, but if they take it Nintendo as we know it is done.

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Filed under: games tech 
January 19, 2012

TWiT’s new gaming show! A bit over produced, but still easily the best video game podcast I have seen so far.

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Filed under: games twit 
January 12, 2012
geeksngamers: Mass Effect 3: Tali - by Anthony Vani My favorite character from the Mass Effect series and the only one I give a shit about for ME3. Well, her and maybe Joker.

geeksngamers:

Mass Effect 3: Tali - by Anthony Vani

My favorite character from the Mass Effect series and the only one I give a shit about for ME3. Well, her and maybe Joker.

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Filed under: tali games mass effect me3 
August 24, 2010
Why do I get the feeling that RAGE is mostly a demo for a new engine? Maybe rather than everything being built on the Unreal engine, now they will be built on the RAGE engine. Either way, the game itself sounds, well, blah.

Why do I get the feeling that RAGE is mostly a demo for a new engine? Maybe rather than everything being built on the Unreal engine, now they will be built on the RAGE engine. Either way, the game itself sounds, well, blah.

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Filed under: games 
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