So Sony has finally unveiled it’s ‘Playstation Phone‘ - the Xperia Play - at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. It looks like a nice piece of kit from what I’ve seen. But the big question, will it succeed? The pressure is really on Sony after the poor showing of the last Sony portable console, … Read more about ‘Sony ‘Playstation Phone’ a safe bet’
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Mac app store unforgiving of slips
My first impressions of the Mac store was pretty positive.
The structure and navigation style is very similar to iTunes. This is a good idea - why recreate the navigation and graphical design wheel?
The app range is healthy for launch (get Osmosis, get it now), and the ‘download/install’ process it very well handled. All programs are … Read more about ‘Mac app store unforgiving of slips’
Move vs Kinect - sales update
Both Playstation Move and Microsoft Kinect have hit the shops in the last couple of months.
Which is doing better? Well, they’ve both hit big worldwide sales recently (Kinect has sold a reported 2.5m worldwide in just 25 days, while Sony have reported shipping 4.1m Move units to suppliers since its release in September - registration … Read more about ‘Move vs Kinect - sales update’
Augmented reality games and mobiles
My attention has recently been drawn to this video of an entertaining looking augmented reality video game, using a mobile phone, a ‘game board’ and some ‘Skittles’ (other candies are available). For those wondering augmented reality is the addition of computer generated imagery over a real world view to give you an ‘augmented’ view of … Read more about ‘Augmented reality games and mobiles’
“I’m not a gamer”
I was reading some very interesting survey results by Frank N. Magid Associates on the GamesIndustry.biz website (free subscription required). It found that 2 in 3 of the Americans questioned played computer games, but only a little over 1 in 3 saw themselves as a ‘gamer’.
I thought the results were worth noting for 2 reasons. … Read more about ‘“I’m not a gamer”’
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