[Article first published as App Ninja Sneaks one by Apple with Fake Ninja Turtles Game on Blogcritics.] Apple prides itself on their strict guidelines and screening process for the apps that can be sold in their App Store. They have a number…
91. Documentary Mistakes Gameplay Video as Footage of Real Terrorism
[Article first published as Documentary Mistakes Gameplay Video as Footage of Real Terrorism on Blogcritics.] I write a lot about the evolution of videogames from the primitive game we know and love as PONG to their being nothing short of a form of art. Games now…
90. Amazon’s Tablet Poised to Take a Bite out of iPad Sales?
[Article first published as Amazon’s Tablet Poised to Take a Bite out of iPad sales? on Blogcritics.] OK we’re going to do a little bit of word association. I’m going to say a word and then you tell me what the first…
89. Windows 8 Hands-On: A Mobile OS that Still Has Love for the Desktop
[Article first published as Windows 8 Hands-On: A Mobile OS that Still Has Love for the Desktop on Blogcritics.] ** UPDATE: This article is on the Windows 8 Developer Preview from September 2011 – for more info on the actual release version,…
88. Aggresive Behavior and Video Games – More Darwin than Bloody Violence?
[Article first published as Aggresive Behavior and Videogames – More Darwin than Bloody Violence? on Blogcritics.] The effect videogames have on the human mind has been thoroughly and widely argued for years. And that argument rests solely on one seemingly central focus:…
86. Spotify Welcomed to the U.S. with a Patent Infringement Lawsuit
[Article first published as Picking on the New Kid: Spotify Sued for Patent Infringement on Blogcritics.] We here in the United States are a litigious sort, and have become increasingly more so with further advances in technology and more filings…
85. The Great Chinese Apple Store Swindle
[Article first published as The Great Chinese Apple Store Swindle on Blogcritics.] Anyone who follows consumer tech can argue about what Apple really excels at and where their success comes from. But to me it’s one thing above all else.…
84. Google+? Still a Minus for Google Apps Users
[Article first published as Google+? Still a Minus for Google Apps Users on Blogcritics.] Malarchy. Yeah I said it, and you didn’t misread it either. It’s spelled quite correctly regardless of the squiggly red lines I see below it editing…
83. World of Warcraft and Add-ons: the Fall of a Purist
[Article first published as World of Warcraft Add-Ons – the Fall of a Purist on Blogcritics.] Now if any of you read this with any sort of regularity, you’ll know that I play World of Warcraft. Until recently, I may…