Archive for the ‘Video Games’ Category
For Eds
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008This is what I’m sure Eds think engineers wear as we sit coding:

But in actual fact, we look more like this:

UK startup feature: Miniclip.com
Monday, February 11th, 2008Nice article in the Sunday Times (10/02/2008) about the games startup www.miniclip.com. Which has beeing running since 2001 and is now making some serious money from people ‘just playing games’.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article3341684.ece
Nokia finally start to see sense on mobile gaming
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Nokia have finally started to make noises that its dropping its ludicrous N-Gage handheld in favour of building a gaming platform that can be leveraged by its standard handsets.
As an avid video game nut and a technology zealot I believe this is the way forward - I saw the N-gage at the E3 last year and it was just terrible. Their stand smacked of a large corporation throwing money at ‘this gaming thing’ - and gamers can smell a poor product coupled to massive marketing budget approach a mile off (just ask Gizmondo)
I mean just look at the thing they tried to foist on a pretty smart and tech literate market (who already have tiny mobile phones that work as, uhm, phones and tiny handheld gameing devices that do, uhm, games):



