June 11, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—We looked at the latest releases from the Disney Interactive organization. New this year for the XBox 360, Wii, Wii U and PS 3 consoles is a family of games called Infinity. These games bring in a new gaming experience that continues Disney’s family-friendly games. The new games are started…
June 12, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—IDC and App Annie presented a panel on the future of mobile and portable gaming at the conference. Louis Bedford from IDC moderated the panel and provided some background statistics. Panel members were: Bertran Schmitt from App Annie, Bill Rehbuck from Nvidia, Chris Early from Ubisoft, Kelly Malone from Microsoft,…
June 2012 – While there are more talks about the Eastern Europe population spending time and money on games, companies from Poland are taking a proactive approach to the global market opportunities available from the open boarders format of gaming. In 2012 Polish consumer spending on games is estimated to be between $350M-$450M USD, as…
June 5, 2012, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sean McCann from Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated the latest in wireless connectivity solutions. The use of hardware acceleration for the communications stack eliminates the lag and latency of Windows and other operating systems. Killer Technology was part of Bigfoot Networks in 2007, which was acquired by Atheros, and subsequently…
We met with VeXFI to see their implementation of a 2-D to 3-D converter. They have a number of models to address the differing versions of 3-D, including active and passive glasses, and auto-stereoscopic displays, as well as a version for post editing and production. The converter is based upon combinatorial logic and doesn’t require…
June 2012 - We met with Dynamics to see about their e-payment device. They have a computer-based payment system that is user on-site programmable to one of two accounts. The use cases for their cards are in credit points to buy on-line items, or donate to a charity, etc. The user can change the account on…
June 5, 2012, ShowStoppers, Los Angeles—We stopped by ShowStoppers at the E3 show to check out some of the latest technologies. Sharing seems to be the big new thing associated with games. For shared viewing, capture, and streaming the games, AVerMedia and Elgato make plug-in subsystems for PCs or Macs that watch the gaming efforts…
We met with WeMade Entertainment and viewed some trailers for their latest game releases. The company made its name with the Legend of Mir 2—a 3D based MMORPG for the PC—which alone attracted 200+ million (as of 2008) users worldwide The company started with on-line PC games, but has changed in the last few years…
June 6, 2012, E3, Los Angeles—we met with Jeromy Adams and Miranda Barnard from the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and talked about the role of gaming in helping seriously ill children. Their group has started the Extra Life gaming network to generate contributions for local Children’s Hospitals. Here is a chance to help others with…