In this week’s Tech Weekly, Charles Arthur meets Chris Anderson. His day job is the editor of the US version of Wired, but is famous for his internet theory in his book The Long Tail. His latest book Free discusses the notion of content being freely available online, and how that business model works for the content creators.
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[Gamesblog] For the next two months, I am otherwise engaged
Friday July 03, 2009 @ 01:08 AM (UTC)
Aleks Krotoski Friday 3 July 2009 11.00 BST
As you may have noticed from the dearth of posts on the gamesblog about odd academic issues, quirky indie games, obscure gaming culture and bizarre interactive ephemera, my contributions have recently been obscured by the impending submission of my PhD thesis. Well, my deadline is finally upon me, and I have until 14 August to finish the behemoth.
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[Tech Weekly] Intellectual property advice and AudioBoo
Wednesday June 24, 2009 @ 07:43 PM (UTC)This week we hear from AudioBoo founder Mark Rock. AudioBoo is the latest new media trend to capture the attentions of the digerati – and celebrities – allowing users to record snippets of audio using your iPhone and send it out to the world via the internet.
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[Games Theory] Sex and games – why haven't they got it on?
Wednesday June 24, 2009 @ 12:38 AM (UTC)
Aleks Krotoski
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 June 2009 19.00 BST
Sex. Got your attention? OK, good. I’ll try again. Games. Still here? Excellent. Now that I’ve got your number, let’s try the two of them together: sex and games. Hello? Nothing? Where did you go? How strange. You’d think that sex-plus-games would equal a rush of eager gamers waving fists of cash, but according to Brenda Brathwaite, founder of the International Game Developers Association’s Sex in Games special interest group, the adult entertainment industry has never really had a look-in. They may have propelled other digital innovations, but when it comes to console-based hanky-panky, grown-up situations have been a turn-off.
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[Tech Weekly] RoboGames: An Olympics for androids
Tuesday June 16, 2009 @ 07:45 PM (UTC)The robots have taken over the asylum here in Guardian Towers, and joining Aleks Krotoski to fight the onslaught of Skynet, Metal Mickey and Wall-E are our fearless podcasters, Jemima Kiss and Bobbie Johnson – who is reporting from the Mecca of Mech, last weekend’s RoboGames android Olympics in San Francisco.
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[Games Theory] E3 - a trip best taken in the safety of your home
Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 12:37 AM (UTC)Aleks Krotoski
The Guardian, Thursday 11 June 2009
A throbbing head, weak knees and flashing lights: these are only three of the reasons I did not go to the second coming of E3, the Electronics Entertainment Expo, last week in Los Angeles. There are others. The west’s Tokyo Game Show is, as I have written on the Gamesblog in the past, an orgasm of the senses. Problem is, it’s actually someone else’s orgasm, and you’ve had nothing to do with it.
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[Games Theory] Put down the controller and get some fresh air
Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 12:35 AM (UTC)Aleks Krotoski
The Guardian, Thursday 28 May 2009
The sun is finally out and, confession time, the last place I want to be is inside playing a computer game. Yes, making such a statement under the heading Game Theory may seem treasonous, or at least the end of my tenure on these pages, but I assure you, I’m not letting the side down. I’m still playing – I’ve just taken my playthings outside.
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[Games Theory] In loving memory of Duke: Hail to the King, baby!
Thursday May 14, 2009 @ 12:33 AM (UTC)
Aleks Krotoski
The Guardian, Thursday 14 May 2009
The games industry lost a great figure last week, a man whose near two decades of service helped to define our modern gaming culture. Duke Nukem, the iconic frontman of the cherished series that bore his name, was laid to rest with the closure of 3D Realms – the development studio that bore him, raised him and pig-headedly refused to let him go.
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[Games Theory] It's time to turn on, log in, and shape up
Thursday April 30, 2009 @ 12:31 AM (UTC)Aleks Krotoski
The Guardian, Thursday 30 April 2009
Last weekend, the Department for Health released its latest TV ad in the Change4Life campaign. It features a clay modelled family coming to the realisation that the scientists are right: a sedentary lifestyle leads to health problems. “Throw down the remote! Chuck away the joystick! Stop eating greasy takeaways!” was the message. “Save our NHS from an epidemic of fatties!” was the subtext. And dutifully, the family did as they were told and started freakin’ on Dance Dance Revolution.
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[Games Theory] Watch out, weberati – Austin is game crazy
Sunday April 19, 2009 @ 12:24 AM (UTC)Aleks Krotoski
The Guardian, Thursday 19 March 2009
South by Southwest is not a computer games conference, or so I’ve been told. The annual festival in Austin, Texas, is supposed to be the folly of web geeks, that brand of brainiacs who make (or want to make) Facebook and Twitter, rather than the breed responsible for Halo or Grand Theft Auto. Yet, sitting in the Austin Convention Centre last weekend, I spotted Halo’s Master Chief wandering through the hallway. Later that afternoon, Six to Start, the alternate reality game-makers from Clerkenwell, London, won both the experimental category at the SXSWi awards and the best in show gong.
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