Speaking for myself I’m ready to pounce on Black Friday deals this year. If I had coordinated better this would have been my Christmas shopping day but, nope, I rolled a critical botch on my calendar skills. I’m over the fact that this mega sale is a weird cultural import from the United States. Now […]
E3: Xbox One S
This gamer hasn’t yet bought a ‘next gen’ console. Incredible, huh? It’s mainly due to life throwing curve balls but a little bit due to most games still being available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. There are numerous Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s kicking around this small flat. This E3 changes things; firstly […]
Wizard of the Coast CEO resigns; replaced by Microsoft salesman
Greg Leeds resigned from his role as the CEO of Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast yesterday. He was thanked by John Frascotti the President of Hasbro Brands for his time at the company. Frascotti said; We are incredibly thankful to Greg for the tremendous contributions he has made to Hasbro, especially during his time leading […]
Hunting down a laptop for a travelling geek
I’ve an old Sony Vaio as my laptop. It’s ancient and has Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 installed on it during its life and while it’s struggling now two of my original decision factors for it were spot on. At the time, the Sony Vaio was one of the lightest around, given that […]
Holographic Halo 5 and Netflix
Hololens is Microsoft’s augmented reality solution. I imagine it’s easy to say “so what” to tech like that but this little video makes some of the use cases pretty clear. Imagine watching Netflix without having a TV or even a screen handy. Why stop at just watching TV? Why not play a whole computer game […]
Streaming Xbox content to Windows 10 looks neat
This looks good. For a start; all the Windows machines in my little flat are on Windows 7 or above so that means Windows 10 upgrades will be free. There are two Xboxes in the same flat. The old Xbox 360 and the older Xbox 360. That’s not so good. I’d need an Xbox One […]
Star Wars Paintbrush and Windows 3.1
There are some golden oldies in the official Disney Star Wars store but nothing quite as old as the work from Robert and James Dastoli. In the 90s the brothers used Microsoft Paintbrush on Windows 3.1 to create a host of Star Wars fan art. Now on their Tumblr, Star Wars Paintbrush, they’re posting this […]
Visual analysis of E3
How did the big three players at E3 do? Don’t want to read anything to find out? These charts make some pretty clear points! Via Imgur.
The roleplayers’ analysis of Microsoft’s E3 – so far
E3 is the big game expo. It’s Monday and Microsoft have been speaking. Let’s take a look at their announcements and have a go at sorting the games into roleplaying tiers. The theory is this; there are computer roleplaying games which do what they can to recreate the RPG experience with a console or computer, […]
Xbox One Media Remote listing appears on Amazon
Yesterday Amazon Canada published and then quickly pulled a listing for the Xbox One Media Remote. Oops. Today Amazon UK has a listing for the Official Xbox One Media Remote. Double Oops. At the time of this blog post going live the UK listing hasn’t been pulled. There’s no picture but the page describes the […]