February 2009

The Sidekick: too little, too late?

February 22, 2009

We loved our Sidekick when we got it, but there were definite shortcomings that made the iPhone the more appealing platform in the end. Still, the Sidekick could have gained a much more sizeable market share if they hadn’t locked the platform down, made developing for it easier, and if they didn’t limit the options [...]

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Pepsi beats Coca-Cola to retro-soda?

February 21, 2009

Apparently, Pepsi realized that people love soda made with cane sugar, and would rather drink these types of variants than the mass-market versions made with high-fructose corn syrup. While more expensive to produce, there’s clearly a market for this, which is why people seek out Mexican Coke in the States when possible, despite the cheaper [...]

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Most self-described “hardcore” PvP gamers are likely full of shit.

February 20, 2009

Scott Jennings makes a great point about why Darkfall won’t make it in the end: …people enjoy hardcore PvP in the abstract. Or, to put another way, many more people believe they are ‘hardc0re’ then actually are. And they dislike being proved wrong pretty powerfully… The Mordred problem is simply that a great majority of [...]

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Reassessing EVE. Or, Our EVE Experiment (mendax.eve?).

February 19, 2009

Our take on EVE Online has fluctuated worse than a woman’s pregnancy mood. Let us summarize: When we were first exposed to EVE through a friend, we didn’t think much of it. Giving it some more thought, however, we loved the idea of a graphical Trade Wars MMO. EVE even brought back memories of what [...]

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Further proof that print-publications are a dying breed.

February 16, 2009

As far as gaming rags go, the past several months have foretold doom for the magazine industry. It turns out that this mighty thing called “the internet” was finally realized by hordes of gamers who recognized that online publications are simply more timely than print publications. After all, with blogs reporting news in near real-time, [...]

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Sexy acorn mp3 player is probably very shitty.

February 13, 2009

We can’t help but love the aesthetic of this acorn-shaped mp3 player complete with wooden enclosure. Sadly, this baby only sports 1GB of data, and it’s not an iPod. Still, the concept is very cool, and one could imagine a pretty cool interface for this baby by changing the track, or volume, with a twist [...]

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