March 2014 – At Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the developers of World of Tanks and the leader in the combat action game genre was showing previews of their new games being updated and release. Their product offering leader is World of Tanks which currently sports 80M+ users world wide and is supported by…
TellTale Games – The Wolf Among Us October 2013, Telltale Games has once again released a truly engaging interactive story game based on a comic book/graphic novel series. Following their game of the year success with the Walking Dead, they have now turn their attention to another classic series. The first episode of this story…
September 10, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Steve Porter, Gokul Subramaniam, and Arvind Sundaram describe the market opportunities and design requirements for all-in-one PC, the merger of laptops and tablets. Intel is pushing the new form factor to compensate for the drop in PCs and laptops. This market is projected to grow to be large…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch presented data about emerging touch and display technologies. The push and pull from mobile devices is changing the nature of user interfaces, allowing new technologies to enter the market. Mobile devices are driving portable computing and communicating, but need more spectrum…
July 2013 – At the 44th Comic-Con in San Diego, the crowds were the largest ever. As show that started as a celebration and community sharing artistic creativity in form of print comic books and artwork, has become an increasingly electronic centric show. The expo now features TV, movies, web shows, video games, and electronic…
June 18, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—A panel took on the topic of gaming and entertainment over the Web. Charlie Jablonski from OnLive chaired the panel whose members were Bill Gardner from Digital Entertainment Insights, Alex Caccia from Marmalade, and Brett Durrett from IMVU. Gardner provided background…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013 in San Francisco, we visited with Three Ring Studios, which has been producing games for Sega since 2001. In 2003, they launched their premier game Puzzle Pirates. This game is an MMO RPG that is playable on PC/Mac and Linux systems. The game has recently been ported to iOS…
September 2012 – With video conferencing and Voice based interfaces & VOIP communication, we continued our reviews of several easy to use USB microphones targeted at this market. The unit we just finished testing was from MXL and was the AC-404 which is a commercial level performance targeted product for the office environment. This table…
September 2012 – As a result of the rise of video conferencing and VOIP based communication, we decided to review several easy to use USB microphones targeted at this market. The reference unit we tested first was from MXL and was the AC-406. This table use microphone is actually a speaker phone that has a…