Mobile Games Players Are Not Serious: "Casual mobile handset users continue to be the key to success in the mobile games market, according to the mobile games publisher, Mr.Goodliving."

Mobiles in Japan get gestural: "A mobile phone that recognises and responds to movements has been launched in Japan. The motion-sensitive phone - officially titled the V603SH - was developed by Sharp and launched by Vodafone's Japanese division. Devised mainly for mobile gaming, users can also access other phone functions using a pre-set pattern of arm movements."

Interview with Will Wright:

"O: Have you ever found a subject that you could not convert into a game?

WW: I had a few that I spent time on, and had a lot of roadblocks. I wanted to do a tactical weather simulation, something where you could sculpt storms, create tornadoes and thunderstorms, and things like that. It had to do with these three-dimensional fluid-flow maps. I experimented with a lot of ways to visualize that, so you could get an instinctive feel for the three-dimensional flow field. I showed it to several people, and it became pretty apparent that a lot of people have a hard time visualizing to that level. When you read about the way that tornadoes form, it's a very interesting kind of process that I thought would be cool to simulate. But in terms of giving the user a very discrete way to manipulate the system, that's where I really hit the roadblock."

Dance mat teaches pupils Spanish language: "Children learn words by placing their feet on coloured squares according to the words shown on screen and shouted out by a cartoon character. These cover topics such as colours, directions, shopping items and numbers."

I cracked and splashed out on a 20" Apple display for my Powerbook last weekend. Wow. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who spends a significant chunk of their time at a desk with a laptop. Whilst I'd gotten used to the screen size of the 12" Powerbook, and Expose helps a great deal to mitigate the lower resolution, having this much extra screen space is fantastic... whether it be for writing proposals (keeping the requirements document open next to mine on-screen), or doing development work.