Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Actually I think I know why. They’ve all started playing it, it’s horribly addictive, and nobody can put it down long enough to tell anybody else that the dungeon crawler to end all dungeon crawlers is available to download.
Jon Jordan puts some numbers on the launch and the income of Rovio’s (rather greedy) freemium karting cart game, Angry Birds Go. While the launch period saw the title perform well, it’s been dropping quickly away from the top of the app downloads and earned revenue charts: Yet as most of the graphs show, the key concern for Rovio will be that while Angry Birds Go! has launched very well in terms of its first three weeks, it’s now tracking downwards in terms of top grossing chart position, particularly on the more volatile App Store. Lots of graphs and stats to
Big Bang is another entry in the scattershot Rabbids franchise. It’s hard, you play with a single life, and it’s an arcade game where a knowledge of orbital mechanics, and Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, comes in useful. Naturally I love it: I loved the concept and game mechanics of Big Bang when I first played it just before Christmas, and my time with the game since then has increased my appreciation of the title. No, it’s not for everybody, it can be frustrating and orbital mechanics is not as easy a concept to grab as ‘lob a bird at
On the back of updates, frustration, micro-transactions, and DRM, friend of the parish Jason Evangelo hits Ebay, grabs some old gaming systems, and launches ‘Retro Retreat‘: So, here we are. The Retro Retreat. A chronicle of the joys and discoveries to come, and probably an account of lessons learned and dollars lost along the way. Will this card-carrying and outspoken member of the PC Master Race let his membership lapse? I can’t say just yet, but something has undoubtedly changed, and maybe this blog will lead me to the answers. One for the bookmarks. I wonder if I should send him
I wonder how the team behind Bejeweled at PopCap feel about this?
What happens when I take a Windows Phone, strip out as much software as possible, and focus on building a ‘portable Xbox’ console? All About Windows Phone has more… If there’s been a flawed jewel in the crown of Windows Phone, it’s been the Xbox Live branding. Putting one of the most popular and successful gaming brands into a smartphone was a strong statement of intent all those years ago, but only now is it starting to deliver the quality and named titles that are expected. So what can you do with a standard Windows Phone to give it a
