Mind-Numbing New Interface Technologies: "Game interfaces often get the shaft. Developers invest tons in graphics or sound or physics, but nobody ever invests tons of time into the control scheme. Often people don't even really think about it. Game controllers are ubiquitous. You push a button, and stuff happens. But the interface is literally a player's connection to the game: it's where the action happens. "

How right they were:

"The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) says that when digital distribution becomes a reality there will be a massive swing to it. It's convenient, quick and its gonna end up a damn sight cheaper than conventional CD"

Yep - Kazaa is convenient, cheap - *and* a damn sight cheaper than conventional CDs...

Robot City

February 09, 2005 | Comments

This is one of my favourite ChewedMelon toons er I mean sequential arts...

My First Article

February 09, 2005 | Comments

My first article for TheFeature.com, on "Casual Gaming", has just been published. Comments please!

\"There was nothing we could do\"

February 05, 2005 | Comments

Nice. The music industry ramp up their aggressive efforts to sue their own customers, children and their parents, and start suing the dead. Surely there's a Godwin-like law we can invoke now to bring this stupidity to and end?