Wii Karting…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I spent a couple of hours last night playing Mario Kart Wii against a few friends - one in Mallusk and two in London. I've written it up here on Lategaming. It's a good game. You should try it.

PC Gaming and Piracy

Friday, March 28th, 2008

A good article on PC game piracy: Anyone who keeps track of how many PCs the "Gamer PC" vendors sell each year could tell you that it's insane to develop a game explicitly for hard core gamers. Insane. I think people would be shocked to find out how few ...

Dicing with the iPhone

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

In an odd combination of non-day-job-work and play, I found this: "I started working with the audio toolbox on the iPhone today. This morning, I added sounds to the little dice rolling application I've been writing. I recorded a total of fifteen sounds, five of a single die being rolled, five ...

Linux Gaming.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Slashdot got this article from MadPenguin.org on why more Linux users aren't gamers. Here, of course, is my wisdom. There are two kinds of Linux users. Political and Technical. The Political Linux user will have long abandoned any technology which hasn't reached his or her standards of political extremism. They'll have removed ...

Casual Games

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

I've been thinking of applications which would suit the iPhone and iPod touch and mused about how the original iPod models had a click wheel and yet no-one managed to bring out a driving game :) One area that I'd love to see some work in would be gaming on iPod ...