[ Jul 3 2013 ]

The Snowden Affair

Thinking about Snowden’s escape from America, through Hong Kong, who let him go on to Russia.

Games

[ May 24 2013 ]

Penny Arcade Report – The XBone Thread

Going off a bit about the XBone back when such things mattered to me.

[ Nov 5 2007 ]

Banned in China!

Games

[ Nov 8 2006 ]

The Death of E3 – For Better or Worse?

The death of E3 has been predicted for a while by some, but now that it’s happened (And despite their claims of restructuring and refocusing it might as well be dead for most of us) the general consensus is that it was a good thing. I wonder if perhaps they’re missing the point. Larger publishers […]

[ Oct 1 2006 ]

Ebay, cursed ebay.

For most of the five years I lived in Japan I was selling games on ebay. It was fun, back when you could get stuff cheap and sell it dear, but times changed. Still though I find stockpiles of games now and then and I sell them on ebay. Currently I’ve got about 85 games […]

[ Jun 15 2006 ]

The Atari Curse: Part 4

[ Mar 16 2006 ]

Sony: Crack Smokers

Not three weeks ago they were admantly proclaiming a spring 2006 launch, but now it’s November, according to the Nihon Keizai Newspaper (No article link, it’s behind a paywall). Sony’s Kutaragi has tried to soften the price blow by scaremongering: “It’ll be expensive”, but this is obviously an attempt to make people happy with the […]

[ Oct 3 2005 ]

Moving sucks

So we’re moving in about five weeks. It’s going to kill me, for sure. Moving overseas for me is like reinventing myself with all the work done months before results can be known. Should I sell all my games? Keep only the good stuff? What about the insane rare stuff? And the pile of stuff […]

[ Jul 8 2005 ]

I have a problem

My mind does a lot of processing on a subconscious level. In the background there’s a lot of mental shit going on that I am unaware of. It manifests itself in different ways – the sudden burst of creativity or the revelation of a long-standing problem’s solution. It also, and this causes me no end […]

[ Nov 8 2004 ]

PvP, Scott Kurtz, Syndication, and money.

Scott Kurtz draws a daily comic that’s quite successful. He announced his intention to give away his strip to newspapers for free, which would bypass the syndicates’ lock on the funny pages (which ain’t so funny these days thanks to the geriatrics that keep Blondie and other tripe in print) and many hopeful or already […]