These just seem to get later every year, don’t they? Initially it was January, then February, now it’s March. It’s probably good that I waited a couple of months, though, because there’s a few new ones that have snuck in just in time. Let’s see what I’m listening to this year and how many sentences [...]
I wrote the original ‘What Do I Listen To?’ more than a year ago and felt it was time to give it an update. Who are the up-and-comers? Who’s managed to hang on? Who’s fallen by the wayside? Read on to find out what’s on my iPod in 2009. The Brainy Gamer Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainygamerpodcast Last [...]
I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]
Since I frequently get reactions to things I write about on this blog (much to my surprise) I thought in light of my failure to get a response from Relic Entertainment I’d write them a letter and publish it here. Letters don’t usually have titles but if mine did it would be called, ‘Hi, I [...]
So I’m reading this article in Edge magazine and I just have to stop. The interviewer is doing their best but the corporate blow-hard on the other end just won’t stop using words like ‘amazing’ and ‘blown away’ while he dodges questions and repeats corporate spin. The snookering of the media by corporate and political [...]