Depending on your hardware/Android version screen recording on Android could be absolute pain. Google have tried to fix the problem by putting native screen recording in to the latest release of android, and actually it’s pretty good. If you own a Nexus 4/7 you should be getting your rollout soon Read more…
Many of the tools developers are using to create Oculus Rift games support Mac OS as a platform. This is great news for OS X users who are usually shunned when it comes to great gaming experiences. If you have a Mac and wondering if you should get a Rift Read more…
Everyone loves the taste of fast food, I’m sure we’d all eat KFC or McDonalds every day if it a) it wasn’t so expensive b) Colonel Sanders wasn’t so damn creepy and c) we weren’t so scared of PETA propaganda. Well fear not, I’ve put the man-hours in trawling youtube Read more…
A developers business model is often something I take in to consideration when purchasing a game. For example I’m not a huge fan of free to play games with in-app purchases; I feel since these purchases effect the balance of the game it will skew how the game is Read more…
I’ve become a big fan of games that embrace the losing is fun style of gameplay. Losing is Fun is the slogan of strategy game Dwarf Fortress, the concept is simple; the game gets so hard that you will die and it will be in such a fun way that you Read more…
Recently I’ve been playing with an R wrapper for a machine language library called Mallet to generate lists of topics from a series of text documents. The technique is called Topic Modelling and I have gotten to grips with it from Ben Marwick‘s readings of archaeology papers which has some Read more…
My twitter profile picture is currently sporting a rather cool profile picture of a retro game version of my rabbit, Paddy. I’m very fond of it, not only because he looks super cool but also because it was designed by Joe Pendon! I’m a big fan of Joe’s work, Read more…
According to Wikipedia there are eight generations of video game consoles, each generation defined by the consoles that are released and the innovations they make. We are at the start of the eighth generation with the PS4 and Xbox one about to hit the shelves this month. Releasing a console Read more…
If you haven’t seen Bitstrips then good, I won’t force them upon you. It’s right up there with Buzzfeed in terms of high quality entertainment. But if you have a group of friends bombarding you with them then you will be glad that Facebook makes it quite easy to block Read more…
I’m feeling really chuffed with myself, I got to the end of a MOOC. So what did I learn from the experience? If you haven’t already guessed I picked up a little bit about Weka. Still, I don’t feel much like a Weka expert, I’m not even sure I can Read more…
