SOPA: Feed the Gamer Dissaproves!

SOPA. Those letters have been bouncing around the internet for a few months now, but what does it really mean to you as a net dweller now that the bill has passed the post in the USA.

Well for a start, it could possibly be the deaths knell of a free internet because the US tends to set international legislative trends….

Project Fiona Concept Gaming Tablet

I’ve never had much use for tablet PC’s beyond the occasional use for browsing the web, or reading comics. I can’t write on them and they lacked the controls for gaming until Razer imagined this:

The Project Fiona Concept Gaming Tablet is the latest vision by game hardware company Razer and I hope that two things happen with this project:
Primarily I hope they come up with a far shorter and more punchy name than”Project Fiona Concept Gaming Tablet” because, to be blunt guys, that’s never going to trip off the tongue the way that “iPad” or “banana” does and secondly, that they actually make these things because it looks like a fairly awesome concept!…

Ocean Marketing: A PR Nightmare

When Dave inquired about his order of two new Avenger PS3 controllers, the last thing he expected was a PR nightmare.

Dave had recently pre-ordered two controllers from a company named Ocean Marketing. As Dave had found no update on the progress of his order on the company’s website, he sent an email to them asking whether he could expect the controllers to arrive before Christmas….

Ocean Marketing: How To Appeal To The Internet

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Because of the mistakes made by Ocean Marketing a device designed to help disabled gamers has received a great deal of negative publicity. We feel this is an injustice and so, instead of fuelling the fire we have removed our original article by Axel Rothe and ask readers take the time to consider that behind this story lays a business build upon helping people and a man who designed a controller specifically to do just that.

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Skyrim: The Best Mods So Far

Bethesda games have always been games that modders flock to. So, if you’re looking for a Skyrim mod, and don’t know where to find one, try the Nexus website. They have the biggest database of mods; so finding the mods you’re looking for is fairly easy and so is uploading them….

Electronic Arts – Kicking Ass, Taking Names

Electronic Arts seems lately to be seeing just how many fronts they can fight wars on. Up until this week, they already had three open source of conflict : Modern Warfare vs Battlefield, Star Wars The Old Republic vs World of Warcraft and the increasingly troubling Origin vs Steam battle. So of course, it’s sensible to jump into a fourth war with both feet….

The Noir City and Max Payne

I’ve always been interested in the place that games are making in our storytelling history, and when I think of clever writers today I don’t just include Chuck Palahniuk or Christopher Nolan, but videogame designers and writers such as Steve Purcell, Sam Lake and Marc Laidlaw. With Max Payne, Sam Lake in particular contributed to the genre of noir (or ‘hardboiled’) in a big way….

Games testers: the games journalists of the development process

It’s not uncommon to find someone who makes a piece of art and then hates how it is received in the critical world: in fact, it is almost mundanely common.  You can argue, of course, that the person who is criticising the piece of work is actually unqualified to criticise that work.  That is known as an ad hominem argument, and is largely regarded as being unuseful: you have not addressed the argument at large, only the person making the argument.  Though the ‘unqualified’ critic may die, and their flaws with them, what they have said still exists, floating around in an irritating cloud above the head, still bothering the brain at night when all anyone should want to do is watch an episode of Bored to Death and get a good night’s sleep.  Eventually, the developer has to address what the critic has said about his art on a level playing field.  It is his only way of riposte….

Seppuku for Sony?

When PSN went down, William and Kate weren’t married, we still didn’t have real proof that Barack Obama was actually born in the US, and Osama Bin Laden was still alive. We’re now well into the third week of Sony’s shame, and the rumours of a return to service on May 3rd have proven inaccurate, and as we covered earlier in the week, it’s possible that this rabbit hole runs a lot deeper than Sony originally suspected, having broadened their investigation to include the SOE division and Station.com, both of which closed on May 2nd and have not yet returned at the time of writing….

Sony Can’t Catch a Break

So, we covered earlier how Sony’s PSN got hacked and subsequently was taken offline for forensic analysis. We covered the lack of clear communication from Sony for around a week and then the announcement that all of our details had been stolen, credit card data may have been compromised. So, it’s time for a recap of what has happened since we last did a recap….