Steam In-Home Streaming – This is What You’ve Been Waiting For

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Steam In-Home Streaming – This is What You’ve Been Waiting For

August 20, 2014 /
Ever since OnLive took the world by storm offering instant access to triple-A video games by means of YouTube-like streaming video and controller input data other companies have sought to turn game streaming into a real industry and simultaneously grab their share of the pie in the process. But while the technology’s roots may lie in giant servers feeding games long-distance for a fee—often a recurring one, at that—as time has gone on a necessary shift in focus has taken place from the large-scale to ...

Steam In-Home Streaming – This is What You’ve Been Waiting For

Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

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Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

August 13, 2014 /
If you cringed at the word ‘social’ in the title, my apologies. I did the same thing. No, really, I did. Because up to this point, ‘social’ and ‘gaming’ (which virtual reality is definitely linked to) have always gotten together to spawn the likes of Zynga and other infamous companies which like to exploit social media platforms by bombarding the world with games that everyone is playing, so, you know, you totally should too. For the next five minutes at least, until the next fad outdates the ...

Virtual Reality: It’s All About Social

What Ever Happened to the PS Vita?

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What Ever Happened to the PS Vita?

July 02, 2014 /
It seems a weird question to ask of any Playstation device, but here we are. Sony’s latest portable console is now well into its third year, and for years prior Playstation fans begged for what was then known as NGP (next-gen portable). The PSP before it sold tremendously (80 million units worldwide as of last November) and was home to some of the best titles ever to hit gamers’ pockets. When Nintendo made the first move on the latest generation of handheld consoles by releasing the 3DS, serious gamers ...

What Ever Happened to the PS Vita?

Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

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Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

June 25, 2014 /
There’s no doubt about it: Android is insanely popular. Even if you fall into the Apple, Microsoft, or Blackberry camp, 1 billion active users is an incredibly respectable number. That’s almost a seventh of the earth’s population, assuming roughly one device per person. That’s crazy. Few products ever achieve such penetration. So you know that when Google takes to the stage each year to talk about the future of their mobile operating system, a lot of people pay attention (apparently even women, who ...

Android L @ Google I/O – The Future of Mobile?

Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

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Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

June 18, 2014 /
Somehow I was under the impression that virus scanners for Windows aren’t really the issue they used to be. It’s been years since I personally was infected, and generally the same is true for those I’m acquainted with. But recently I was reminded that a significant portion of PC users still don’t know how to surf the web safely, and for such people it’s just as easy to fall prey to scams and viruses today as it was five or ten years ago. Normally I address a relatively computer savvy demographic ...

Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

The Hazards of Mobile Productivity

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The Hazards of Mobile Productivity

May 30, 2014 /
This is not the post I wanted to bring you this week. It’s late. It’s short. It probably won’t help anyone out there have a better experience with technology. For that I apologize. But this is all I can write. A little over a year ago, I went out on a limb and dubbed tablets and smartphones consuming devices only, not productive ones. That, I felt at the time, was exclusively the domain of the PC. Since then Android has grown to become singularly the most advanced platform to hit our pockets (or ...

The Hazards of Mobile Productivity