This is nonsense and ramble that came to my head while writing something else.. Anybody with children or young adults in the family will have at some point had to turn an Xbox/PC/PS4 off to bring them out of a state of emotional distress. I think there are many reasons Read more…
A few days ago I jotted down some notes describing a view on the motivations of some games, that there were games pretending to entertain but instead they were in the business of raising ‘engagement rates’ getting you to do something in the interest of the developer rather than to Read more…
My favorite type of video games are online cooperative ones, I think I’ve always preferred them to competitive counterparts because while they are social and let you play with other people, they do not featuring an 11 year old who has clocked up 500 hours laughing at you because your Read more…
Over the past year I have found myself playing with ways to create new ways to revise for students, mainly based around creating quick quizzes in different forms for my students to take on the go. My personal strategy has always been to ‘top up’ my revision sessions by doing Read more…
Hell Divers is the next gen game I’ve been waiting for, and it comes with none of the next gen shenagins I’ve come to expect. It is a great example of connectivity without ‘exploitationware‘. In 2003, towards the end of his run with Future Publishing, Terry Stokes came up with Read more…
Incremental Games are a recently recognised genre of video game that is popular on mobile phones and browser game sites such as Kongregate with the simple goal to earn as much ‘currency as possible. The currency itself can take many forms, but is basically an integer that is increased by Read more…
Our department have started work on a new exciting new project called RAGE, which stands for Realising an Applied Gaming Ecosystem. When I tell anybody I’m working on this they kind of get this idea that it is a project about gaming, but they are not really sure what ‘applied Read more…
During my degree my networking tutor made the claim that by 2015 most TV shows, computer programs and music would be streamed through the Internet. He claimed that we would return to a ‘mainframe model’ where homes would be equipped with dumb terminals and we would turn them on, join Read more…
Survival horror is a genre within computer games that has a horror focus and the aim to simply help the main character stay alive while they are underpowered and vulnerable in scary scenarios. There are a wide range of games with lots of different takes on the of survival horror Read more…
I have to admit I haven’t played on the new generation of consoles much but recently I did get the chance to play on a Playstation 4. I had heard that the PS4 pad had a built in speaker but hadn’t really given it any thought, the Wii remote also had Read more…
