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“Why aren’t we setting trends instead of following them?” It makes for good internet travel. Makes the rounds. Serves as a battle cry for those who dance whenever the pot is stirred. We both know that the answer to that is simple. Because you work at one of the largest 3rd party publishers and thoseContinue reading “No One Working in AAA is THAT Concerned About Originality”

The European Union has a Lemony Snicket kind of case on its hands. One that it created of its own doing. One that is driven by the tendency towards techno-fear in the EU. But one that also has a valid cause for concern. They are just not going about it in a manner that presentsContinue reading “The Curious Case of Facebook’s Not-a-Data-Breach in Ireland & the Un-enforceability of GDPR”

I was a Google Stadia Founder. I jumped off at one point due to some bad customer service associated with the other Google services I use; I retuned later. But by and large I was always a fan of the service. It became my travel gaming solution. It kept me from having to lug aContinue reading “The Go Back – a Game Pass and XCG Homecoming”

Gamers are a pretentious lot. In their discussion of anything new and innovative, they oppose anything that walks, talks, looks, and smells different than the exact way in which they game. It seems like XBox fans have grown slightly more amenable to Microsoft taking gaming in new vectors. I think that they get that thatContinue reading “Sony’s Worst Opponent to its Cloud Endeavors will be its Own Fan-Base”

A couple of weeks ago, I made an alternative argument for Microsoft to fight the FTC on. One that showed a bit more humility than Brad Smith’s “We tried peace” (which, having spent several decades working with government agencies, runs the risk of catalyzing this issue along bipartisan lines and backfiring on MSFT). Out ofContinue reading “XBox Acquiring Activision being ‘Good for Gamers’ is a Logical Fallacy – as XBox has not been ‘Good for Gamers’ Since 2005”

Much ado is made about the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard merger and acquisition. That includes various noise made by yours truly. But the fact of the matter is that while it is a newsworthy headline in the here and now, by next console generation it will have been forgotten. One of the truisms that are a resultContinue reading “The Irrelevance of the Activision Blizzard Acquisition”

Two days ago, OnePlus announced that its next major flagship smartphone – the OnePlus 11 – and new earbuds will saunter onto the smartphone scene at an event in February. Given that I just recently replaced my OnePlus 9 with the Google Pixel 6, and talked at volume about the absolutely horrible experience it wasContinue reading “The US Smartphone Market is Boring AF – therefore, the OnePlus 11”

Protected Groups Don’t Need to Stop Playing Video Games – Bigoted Gamers Do It cracks me up to no end the entitled gamers today who do not believe in holding themselves accountable for their own behavior and blame everything on corporations and other gamers. That those gamers then extend their hypocrisy to gate-keeping around demographicsContinue reading “Gaming Was Better When it Wasn’t Cool – How Mainstream Society is Killing Games”

There’s a contract that I make with games that I expect to be fulfilled. I expect games to introduce me to new worlds. To the worlds they have constructed. I expect to be taught rules about those new worlds. How things work. What things harm you. What things help. What things constitute sustenance. What thingsContinue reading “Some Gamers Like the Wool Pulled Over Their Eyes. I Don’t”

I started building gaming PCs in 1999. I had to get a PC for grad school. Interestingly enough, being in a curriculum that was oriented around people who would hold fiduciary responsibility for procuring technical equipment, the school felt it was important that we understood how a computer was built, along with some minor webContinue reading “Where I’ve Been – Travels Through the Wild of PC Gaming”