Author Archives: GameLogIQ

Let’s start with that should be the obvious. No one should pay attention to anything Jason Schreier writes. He’s a man-baby that blocks anyone who asks him a question on Twitter, was speaking up in defense of Andrew Tate, has never written a line of code in his life, and has no domain expertise inContinue reading “You Buying Call of Duty Modern Warfare III Shouldn’t Have Anything to Do with Bloomberg. Or XBox”

I Like My games Skinny or Thicc, but nothing in-between. Spider-Man 2’s campaign is supposedly only 15 – 20 hours. And yet the traversable and playable city geographic area is almost twice the size of the first game’s map. And you can play as both Peter and Miles. What this translates to me is whatContinue reading “Of Game Lengths: Light or Endless; it’s the In-Between I Don’t Care for”

I find myself here musing tonight. On my tasklist was the assignment to update the Rounding Off Infinity website. And I found myself asking the question ”Why?” “For what?” Somewhere along the way, there was a mission for my original web-presence, GearWERKZ, which was solely written. Its notion was that I did not care aboutContinue reading “Musings on the Love of Games”

Dark Winds is a great TV show. And therein lies its problem. Were the show less of a critical success, then enjoying it might not feel so problematic. I’m still, in truth, untying a lot of my understanding of the social controversy and the feelings that Indians have over the show. Their reception of itContinue reading “Dark Winds, S2E1- NA’NIŁKAADII: Review; the Show’s Success Was Its Own Petard; We Hope it Changes”

I’ve been living the Android tablet lifestyle pretty much since inception. While many will have the impression that the Motorola Xoom was the first Android tablet, dozens of tablets were released by Asian manufacturers and sold as weird one-offs before tablet use of Android was officially supported. The product descriptions of these were always sketchy.Continue reading “It’s Been 13 Years; Will Google’s New Policy Finally Fix the Android Tablet App Ecosystem?”

Ben Thompson posted an article on Stratechery this week that paints many parallels between the Hollywood Strike with things I have been calling out as warning signals. Potential impacts from subscription services that could have a disruptive impact on the gaming industry. The ongoing conversion of games to Software-as-a-Service, where it is taken beyond aContinue reading “The Parallels Between the Hollywood Strike and the Games Industry – Part I”

In general, my feeling about subscription gaming services is that they are just yet another thing I have to manage. To make sure I am consuming enough of to justify the cost. Which means I have to establish criteria; work out mathematical formulas. Determine thresholds of acceptability. Measures of effectiveness. It becomes work. They areContinue reading “Gamers Have Relationships with Content – Subscription Services Change that Relationship (Part 1)”

As much I’ve wanted one in the past, I don’t think I would be very much interested in an Xbox Handheld Gaming device today. It would have the same market problems that the Vita had. It would be pinched somewhere in between the Nintendo Switch, the smartphone that everyone is basically required to have today,Continue reading “A Handheld XBox Would Fail; a Handheld Microsoft Surface Might Not”

I know. I thought it was frivolous, too. A manifestation in the worst vector of over-zealous fanboism. Some small group of, seemingly, unknown gamers from California, New Mexico, and New Jersey, have re-filed their contention over Microsoft’s efforts to acquire Activision (sorry; “merger” is too courteous a term). While the original case was dismissed inContinue reading “There Are Positive Things to Say About the Gamer’s Lawsuit against Microsoft”

I want to write a feature post here over the next few days about my favorite Open World games. It’ll be a doozy. But first, I felt the need to set table stakes with a problematic part of the narrative going around on Open World Games. “Not every game has to be open world”. TheContinue reading “Setting Table Stakes: Not Every Game Has to be Open World”